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1862, July 2 - 12 Stat. 503, Act Donating Public Land For Colleges
1862, July 2 - 12 Stat. 503, Act Donating Public Land For Colleges
US Government Legislation and Statutes
An act donating Public Lands to provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, an amount to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty-thousand acres for each senator and representative in under the census of 1860. No mineral lands were to be selected or purchase under this act. Moneys from sales of land to be invested, to constitute a perpetual fund, interest to be applied to support one college for agriculture and the mechanic arts. Set forth the conditions under which the grant of land and land scrip could be made.
1866, July 27 - 14 Stat. 292, Railroad And Telegraph Line Lands Act
1866, July 27 - 14 Stat. 292, Railroad And Telegraph Line Lands Act
US Government Legislation and Statutes
The Act authorized the creation of a corporation, Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, empowered to lay out, locate, and construct a continuous railroad and telegraph lines from Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast. The right of way through public lands was granted to the corporation for the construction of a railroad and telegraph with the right, power and authority to take from the public lands adjacent to the road, earth, stone and timber for construction. Indian title to lands falling under this act would be extinguished only by their voluntary cession. Public lands, not mineral designated, were granted to …