7 U.S.C. § 301 — Land grant aid of colleges

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This law grants public land to the states for purposes described elsewhere in this subchapter. Each state gets 30,000 acres of land for every Senator and Representative it had in Congress under the 1860 census apportionment. States cannot select or buy mineral lands under this grant.

This section has no lettered subsections. The federal government grants public land to the several States, for the purposes described elsewhere in this subchapter. Each State's share equals 30,000 acres for every Senator and Representative that State was entitled to in Congress under the census of 1860. There is one condition: no mineral lands may be selected or purchased under this grant.

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There is granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned in this subchapter, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of said sections.

Source credit: (July 2, 1862, ch. 130, § 1, 12 Stat. 503.)

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1862Enacted · Act of July 2, 1862, ch. 130 · 12 Stat. 503

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