that the same shall be equally apportioned, as nearly as practicable, among those entitled to an interest in Further proviso. said reservation: And provided further, That no transfer or conveyance of any of said certificates or scrip shall be valid. When certificates SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President or scrip to issue. be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be ascertained the number and names of the halfbreeds or mixed bloods who are entitled to participate in the benefits of the said grant or reservation as aforesaid, before the issue of the certificates or scrip provided for in the preceding Lands to be surveyed; how exposed to sale. B. Valentine to certain land to be heard by the United States circuit court in California. Appeal to be months. section. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act the President is authorized to have the lands within the said reserves surveyed and exposed to public sale at the land offices for the districts in which said lands may lie, according to the boundaries of the several land districts recently established by Congress, in the same manner as other public lands. Approved, July 17, 1854 (10 Stat. 304). VALENTINE SCRIP An Act For the relief of Thomas B. Valentine Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the ninth circuit court of the United States, of California, be, and hereby is, authorized and required to hear and decide upon the merits, the claim of Thomas B. Valentine, claiming title, under a Mexican grant to Juan Miranda, to a place called the Rancho Arroyo de San Antonio, situate in the county of Sonomo, and State of California, in the same manner, and with the same jurisdiction, as if the claim to the said tract of land had been duly presented to the board of land commissioners under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to ascertain and settle the private land claims in the State of California," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and an appeal had been duly taken from their decision to the district court of California by the said Thomas B. Valentine. * SEC. 3. That an appeal shall be taken from the final taken within six decision and decree of the said circuit court to the Supreme Court of the United States, by either party, in accordance with the provisions of the tenth section of said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, within six months after the rendition of such final decision; and a decree under the provisions of this Act, in favor of said claim, shall not affect any adverse right or title to the lands described in said decree; but in lieu thereof, the claimant, or his legal representatives, may Decree. select, and shall be allowed, patents for an equal quantity of the unoccupied and unappropriated public lands of the United States, not mineral, and in tracts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, and, if unsurveyed when taken, to conform, when surveyed, to the general system of United States land surveys; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to issue scrip, in legal subdivisions, to the said Valentine, or his legal representatives, in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, That no de- Proviso. cree in favor of said Valentine shall be executed nor be of any force or effect against any person or persons; nor shall land scrip or patents issue as hereinbefore provided, unless the said Valentine shall first execute and deliver to the Commissioner of the General Land Office a deed conveying to the United States all his right, title, and interest to the lands covered by said Miranda grant. Approved, April 5, 1872 (17 Stat. 649). LIST OF PRINCIPAL SCRIP ACTS The following is a list containing the more generally known issues of scrip and the Acts of Congress under which the issuance thereof was authorized: New Madrid scrip-Act of February 17, 1815 (3 Stat. 211). McKee scrip, Acts of January 25, 1853 (10 Stat. 745), and March 1, 1889 (25 Stat. 1307). Sioux half-breed scrip-Act of July 17, 1854 (10 Stat. 304). Chippewa half-breed scrip-Treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stat. 1109), and Act of December 19, 1854 (10 Stat. 598). Wyandotte scrip-Article 9-Treaty of January 31, 1855 (10 Stat. 1159). Gerard scrip-Act of February 10, 1855 (10 Stat. 849). Valentine scrip-Act of April 5, 1872 (17 Stat. 649). STATE GRANTS AND SELECTIONS Cross references: See "Alaska," p. 57; "Railroad Grants," p. 409; "Reclamation," p. 490; "Town Sites, etc.," pp. 729, 738. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE GRANTS 66 Cross references: See "Preemptions," p. 393. 'Railroad Grants," p. 409; "Reclamation Act," under "Reclamation," p. 490. NOTE. In the legislation relating to the admission of the publicland States into the Union, commencing with the admission of Ohio in 1802, grants of public lands were made for university purposes. The grants for this purpose generally contained two townships in each State. The act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503), enlarged the earlier grants by the donation to each State of thirty thousand acres of nonmineral public lands for each Senator and Representative to which such State was entitled under the apportionment of 1860, for the support of colleges for the cultivation of agricultural and mechanical science and art. That Act contained a provision for location in place, and an issue of scrip in lieu of place lands. The public-land States took lands in satisfaction of their allowance under the law. The nonpublic-land States received scrip which was sold by the State and located by its assignees on public lands in other States and in the Territories. The grant attached to each new State, upon its admission, without further legislation.-EDITOR. An Act Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts mineral, to be Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the Public lands not purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public given to each land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to State. thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this Act. (U. S. C., title 7, sec. 301.) ** * proceeds from SEC. 4. [As amended by the Act of Apr. 13, 1926, 44 Investment of Stat. 247.]2-That all moneys derived from the sale of sales of public lands aforesaid by the States to which lands are appor 1 The act of July 2, 1862, was supplemented by the acts of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417, U. S. C., title 7, secs. 321-328), and March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1281, U. S. C., title 7, sec. 322), which provided that a portion of the proceeds derived from the disposal of the public lands be applied to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges established under the provisions of the basic act. For cooperative extension work in connection with such colleges, see the acts of May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 372, U. S. C., title 7, secs. 341-348). May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 711, U. S. C., 3d supp., title 7, secs. 343a and 343b), and March 10, 1930 (46 Stat. 83).— EDITOR. 2 This section previously amended by the act of Mar. 3, 1883 (22 Stat. 484, U. S. C., title 7, sec. 304). lands. Interest rate modified. Proviso. Constitution of perpetual fund from. Use of interest therefrom. tioned and from the sales of land scrip herein before provided for shall be invested in bonds of the United States or of the States or some other safe bonds; or the same may be invested by the States having no State bonds in any manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto and engaged that such funds shall yield a fair and reasonable rate of return, to be fixed by the State legislatures, and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unimpaired: Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section 5 of this Act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably approVol. 12, p. 504. priated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this Act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 7, sec. 304.) Conditions of this grant. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made Assent of States. on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative Acts: Diminution of up by State. Annual interest First. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest fund to be made thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this Act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this Act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States. to be applied regularly. No portion to be ings. Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest applied to build thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings. Any State claim of this Act, to Third. Any State which may take and claim the beneing the benefits fit of the provisions of this Act shall provide, within provide college five years, at least not less than one college, as described within five years. in the fourth section of this Act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay 3 Amended by the act of July 23, 1866 (14 Stat. 208), as to the time for complying with the conditions herein. |