Chapter CCIX. *to amend the fifth Section of an Act entitled “An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,” approved July* 2, 1862, *so as to extend the Time within which the Provisions of said Act shall be acce
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CHAP. CCIX.— An Act *to amend the fifth Section of an Act entitled “An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,” approved July* 2, 1862, *so as to extend the Time within which the Provisions of said Act shall be accepted and such Colleges established.*July 23, 1866.1862, ch. 130, § 5.Vol. xii. p. 504.See *Post*, p. 569. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the time in which the severalTime for complying with provisions of act granting public lands to States, &c. for agricultural, &c. colleges, &c. extended.
States may comply with the provisions of the act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,” is hereby extended so that the acceptance of the benefits of the said act may be expressed within three years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said act may be provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the commissioner of the general land office: *Provided,* That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted into theWhere territory becomes a State, the new State entitled to benefits of act, and how.
Union, such new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after209THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 209, 210, 211. 1866. such acceptance, as prescribed in this act: *Provided further,* That anyStates already accepting to have five years more within which to provide one college.
State which has heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to shall have the period of five years within which to provide at least one college, as described in the fourth section of said act, after the time for providing said college, according to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired. Approved, July 23, 1866.