National Legislation Concerning Education: Its Influence and Effect in the Public Land States East of the Mississippi River Admitted Prior to 1820 |
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... accruing to education that result from direct and specific national grants for educational pur- poses ; under indirect aid are included such benefits accruing to education that result from general and unspecified national grants for ...
... accruing to education that result from direct and specific national grants for educational pur- poses ; under indirect aid are included such benefits accruing to education that result from general and unspecified national grants for ...
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... accruing from expressed powers . It is but a step , they say , to the co - ordination of these scientific agencies of the Gov- ernment into an administrative whole which will constitute a true university ; and this step would be but a ...
... accruing from expressed powers . It is but a step , they say , to the co - ordination of these scientific agencies of the Gov- ernment into an administrative whole which will constitute a true university ; and this step would be but a ...
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... accrue from the proceeds of the sales of the lands granted for the use of such township . The year following , the Legislature passed the first law concerning the sale of these lands in conformity with the provisions of Congress , and ...
... accrue from the proceeds of the sales of the lands granted for the use of such township . The year following , the Legislature passed the first law concerning the sale of these lands in conformity with the provisions of Congress , and ...
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... accruing were borrowed by the State for its own uses in building canals and for sinking fund purposes . Nor have these laws ever been repealed . The common school fund is not , therefore , an actual fund , but con- stitutes " an ...
... accruing were borrowed by the State for its own uses in building canals and for sinking fund purposes . Nor have these laws ever been repealed . The common school fund is not , therefore , an actual fund , but con- stitutes " an ...
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... accruing from the sale of the thirty - five sections of salines were thus applied by the State to its own uses . At the present time the State is pledged to pay " interest annually , at the rate of six per cent . per annum , 66 I S. , c ...
... accruing from the sale of the thirty - five sections of salines were thus applied by the State to its own uses . At the present time the State is pledged to pay " interest annually , at the rate of six per cent . per annum , 66 I S. , c ...
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academies accrued acres act of Congress act of March Agricultural and Mechanical agricultural college Agricultural Experiment Stations Alabama Alabama Territory amount annual interest appropriated April April 20 auditor authorized the selection bank Bourne cession college fund commissioners common school fund congressional act congressional grant December directed educational purposes eight per cent enabling act enacted established February February 20 Furthermore Government Endowment Haywood and Cobbs Ibid Illinois Indiana Territory institution internal improvement invested June 22 Knight Land Grants lease legislation Legislature lieu loaned Mississippi Normal University Northwest Territory Ohio School Report ordinance Pillsbury proceeds public lands received reserved from sale school lands school purposes scrip Secretary section numbered sixteen sell seminary lands seminary township six per cent sixteenth section funds sold support of schools surplus revenue tion township of land Treasury trustees United Univ University Land University of Nashville unsold various vested Vincennes University
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Page 47 - 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...
Page 50 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 48 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 14 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 23 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.
Page 41 - That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of said sections, or any part thereof, has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands, equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said State for the use of schools.
Page 47 - ... 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 of life.
Page 42 - That the section numbered sixteen in every township, and when such section has been sold, granted, or disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and most contiguous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such townships for the use of schools.
Page 50 - ... to be applied only to Instruction in agriculture, the mechanic art-s the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their application in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 21 - To establish public institutions, rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades and manufactures.