An additional appropriation of land by Congress to aid in establishing an agricultural college. FEBRUARY 15, 1-67.-Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Resolved by the legislature of West Virginia, That whereas the Congress of the United States did, by an act approved July 2, 1862, donate on certain conditions to the several States that might accept the same, land to the amount of 30,000 acres for each of their senators and representatives in Congress, the proceeds of which were to be applied to the purpose of endowing and supporting colleges to be established by the legislatures of the States so accepting the same, where, in conformity with the provisions of said act, a course of instructions should be established for the benefit of the industrial classes, in which, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and embracing military tactics, particular prominence shall be given to such branches of learning as relate more particularly to agriculture and the mechanic arts, affording a thorough theoretical and practical education in the sciences connected therewith, so as to fit the classes for whose benefit it is more particularly instituted for the various pursuits and professions of life; and whereas the scrip for the land thus donated to and accepted by the State of West Virginia had necessarily to be thrown upon the market and sold, she having no public lands within her boundaries upon which the State could locate the same, and consequently her share in this donation, from the smallness of the quantity and of the price of public land scrip in the market at the time of sale, failed to realize to the State a sum adequate to the object contemplated, the donation to West Virginia being thus rendered vastly unequal in its value, in proportion to her population, to the donations under the same act to States containing within their boundaries public lands upon which they could locate their scrip, and thus throw the land thus acquired and not the scrip into the market; and whereas the State of West Virginia, born in revolution, and yet in her infancy, and having all her foundations to provide for, viz.; her State capitol, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, institutions for the education of her deaf and dumb and blind, as also a fund for popular education, thus imposing upon her a scale of taxation which her people are barely able to endure: Therefore be it Resolved, That our senators in Congress be instructed and our representatives requested to use their best exertions to secure the passage of an act donating to the State of West Virginia, for the purpose specified, an additional appropriation of land equal to sixty thousand acres for each of her senators and representatives in Congress. Adopted January 24, 1867. STATE OF West Virginia, Clerk's Office, House of Delegates: I, William P. Hubbard, clerk of the house of delegates, and keeper of the rolls of West Virginia, certify that the foregoing is a true transcript from the rolls in this office. WM. P. HUBBARD, STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, Office of the Secretary of State: I, Granville D. Hall, secretary of the State aforesaid, hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of the original filed in this office, and, further, that Wm. P. Hubbard, whose genuine signature is annexed to said original, is, as keeper of the rolls of this State, authorized to certify copies from the records of the legislature of this State. Given under my hand and the great of the said State this 11th day of February, 1867. [SEAL.] GRANVILLE D. HALL, FEBRUARY 15, 1857.-Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. The memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents that an additional appropriation of money is required to defray the expense of transporting to Paris large quantities of articles now at New York and going forward for exhibition at the Paris Exposition of 1867. And your memorialists earnestly pray that Congress will make such an appropriation of public money as may be necessary for the purpose of forwarding said articles to Paris. The governor of the State is hereby authorized and requested to affix his official signature hereto, and forward a copy of this memorial to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each of our senators and representatives in the Congress of the United States. ANGUS CAMERON, Speaker of the Assembly. GEO. F. WHEELER, President of the Senate pro tem. Approved, February 9, 1867. LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, Governor. STATE OF WISCONSIN, Secretary's Office, ss: The secretary of state of the State of Wisconsin hereby certifies that the foregoing has been compared with the original enrolled memorial deposited in this office, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof, and of the whole of such original. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State, at the Capitol, in Madison, this 11th day of February, A. D. 1867. [SEAL.] THOS. S. ALLEN, Secretary of State. |