Chapter II. *to authorize the Issuance of College Scrip to the State of Arkansas, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. II.— An Act *to authorize the Issuance of College Scrip to the State of Arkansas, and for other Purposes*. Dec. 13, 1872. Whereas the State of Arkansas has complied with all the provisionsPreamble.1862, ch. 130, vol. xii. p. 503.1866, ch. 209, vol. xiv. p. 208.1868, ch. 256, vol. xv. p. 227.1870, ch. 81. vol. xvi. p. 116. and requirements 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 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and other acts amendatory thereto:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, College scrip to be issued to the State of Arkansas and to the Florida State Agricultural College. That the Secretary of the Department of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue at once, and deliver to the secretary of the State of Arkansas, the full amount of college scrip, to wit, one hundred and fifty thousand acres, and ninety thousand acres to the secretary of the board of trustees of the Florida State Agricultural College of the State of Florida, as provided for in said act, to be used and appropriated to and for the purposes and objects in said act specified, and none other: *Provided*, That no scrip as aforesaid shall be delivered to the authorities of theState of Arkansas to first fund certain old bonds.
State of Arkansas until said State shall have made some satisfactory arrangement by which the bonds of said State, principal and interest, now held by the United States as Indian trust funds, shall be funded in new bonds authorized to be issued by said State for this purpose. Sec. 2. That the time within which the State of Indiana may complyTime within which the State of Indiana may with the provisions of the act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to amend the fifth section of an act entitled398FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 4. 1872. provide an agricultural college, extended.1866, ch, 209.Vol. xiv. p, 208.‘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 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted and such colleges established,” is hereby extended so that the State of Indiana shall have the period of two years after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, within which to provide at least one college, as described in the fourth 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 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
Approved, December 13, 1872.