and March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. L., p. 1281), in aid of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts respecting the annual reports of the presidents and treasurers of said institutions to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and to certain decisions respecting the disbursement of the funds authorized by the said act.

1. The annual reports of treasurers are required to be made on or before September 1 of each year (sec. 2).

2. The reports of presidents must be received before the States can be certified for the annual installments of this fund, and it is respectfully requested that they be forwarded to this office not later than September 1 of each year.

3. The funds annually appropriated by the act of August 30, 1890, must be expended during the year for which they are appropriated and for the purposes specified in the said act, and cannot be allowed to accumulate in the form of an unexpended balance or be invested as a permanent interest-bearing fund (decision of the Assistant AttorneyGeneral, June 20, 1899). The department will insist on the expenditure annually of substantially the entire amount appropriated by the act of August 30, 1890, and the act of March 4, 1907, and boards of control of agricultural and mechanical colleges are requested to make provision for such expenditures. It is understood, of course, that contracts may be entered into for machinery or other educational material which, for good reasons, may not be ready and paid for until the following year. In such cases it is sufficient to explain, by a note in the report, that the balance is held for the purpose of liquidating bills already incurred, and stating the nature of the outstanding contracts.

4. The funds are "to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction" and "for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and mechanic arts" It is held that this language authorizes the purchase from this money of apparatus, machinery, text-books, reference books, stock, and material used in instruction, or for the purposes of illustration in connection with any of the branches enumerated, and the payment of salaries of instructors in said branches only; but, in case of machinery (such as boilers, engines, pumps, etc.) and farm stock, which are made to serve for both instructional and other purposes, the Federal funds may be charged with only an equitable portion of the cost of said machinery and stock.

5. The expenditure of any portion of these funds for the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings under any pretense whatever is specifically prohibited by the act (sec. 3); the purchase of land is not allowable (decision of Assistant Attorney-General, Mar., 1891), nor expenditures for permanent improvement to buildings, grounds, and farms, such as clearing, draining, and fencing of land.

6. The salaries of purely administrative officers, such as treasurers (decision of Assistant Attorney-General, Mar. 7, 1894), presidents, secretaries, bookkeepers, janitors, watchmen, etc., cannot be charged to this fund, nor the salaries of other administrative officers, like superintendents, foremen, and matrons, and the wages of unskilled laborers and assistants in shops, laboratories, and fields; nor can it be expended for

heating or lighting buildings, musical instruments, military equipment, furniture, cases, shelving, desks, blackboards, tables, lockers, salaries of instructors in philosophy, psychology, ethics, logic, history, political science, civics, pedagogy, military science and tactics, and in ancient and modern languages (except English). When an administrative officer also gives instruction in any of the branches of study mentioned in the act of August 30, 1890, or when an instructor gives such instruction and also devotes part of his time to giving instruction in branches of study not mentioned in the said act, only a part of such person's salary proportionate to the time devoted to giving instruction in the branches of study mentioned in the said act of August 30, 1890, can be charged to these funds. In the division of time between instructional and other services, one hour of instruction shall be regarded as the equivalent of two hours of administrative, supervisory, or experiment station work.

7. No part of the funds received under the provisions of the acts of 1890 and 1907 may be used for any form of extension work, and all instruction must be given at the institutions receiving these funds, except that a reasonable portion of the funds provided by the act of 1907 may be used for the instruction of teachers in agriculture, mechanic arts, and domestic science at summer schools, teachers' institutes, and by correspondence, and in supervising and directing work in these subjects in high schools.

8. All or a part of the funds provided by the act of March 4, 1907, may be used for "providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agricultural and mechanic arts. It is held that this language authorizes expenditures for instruction in the history of agriculture and industrial education, in methods of teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and home economics, and also for special aid and supervision given to teachers actively engaged in teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and home economics. It does not authorize expenditures for general courses in pedagogy, psychology, history of education, and methods of teaching.

9. In order that greater uniformity in the reports of treasurers may be obtained in the future the following classification of subjects that may be included under the several schedules has been prepared, such classification to be adhered to by the treasurers of the various institutions in the preparation of their annual reports:

SCHEDULE G-SPECIAL PREPARATION OF TEACHERS

1. History of industrial education (with special reference to agriculture, mechanic arts, and home economics).

2. Methods of teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and home economics.

3. Special instruction to persons teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and home

economics.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE GRANT-90,000 ACRES*

By the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, 30,000 acres of land for each Senator and Representative in Congress of each State is donated for the establishment of an agricultural college therein.

An act of Congress approved March 16, 1873, provides: "That the grant made to the State of Nevada, under section 3 of the act of July 4, 1866, entitled 'An act concerning certain lands granted to the State of Nevada,' shall not cease by reason of the failure of the said State to provide at least one college, as required by the several acts of Congress as a condition on said grant, but the same shall continue in full force; provided, that all the conditions of the law be complied with prior to the 10th of May, 1877"

A joint resolution, relative to continuing in force a grant of 90,000 acres of land to the State of Nevada by the United States, passed by the Legislature January 24, 1879, reads as follows:

WHEREAS, The grant of thirty thousand acres of land to the State of Nevada from the public domain for each Senator and Representative in Congress from the State, amounting in the aggregate to ninety thousand acres, was made by the Congress of the United States, by virtue of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act donating public lands in the several States and Territories, which may provide colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts," approved April 14, 1864; and

WHEREAS, By virtue of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act concerning certain lands granted to the State of Nevada," approved July 4, 1866, and an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to continue in force a grant to the State of Nevada for college purposes," approved March 16, 1872, said grant was continued on condition that at least one college of agriculture and mechanic arts shall be built on or before the 10th day of May, 1877; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and Assembly conjointly, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representative in Congress be requested, to use all honorable means within their power to secure a further extension of time of not less than ten years

*From Report of Surveyor-General of Nevada, 1913-1914.

to enable the State of Nevada to provide or establish at least one college building in conformity to the conditions or the grant approved, April 14, A. D. 1864, and the several amendatory and supplementary Acts in relation thereto.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward the enrolled copies of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representative in Congress and that each copy thereof be accompanied by a letter from His Excellency, urging upon our representatives their immediate attention to the subject-matter thereof. On March 3, 1883, Congress passed the following:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth section of the Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sale of land scrip herein before provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States having no state stocks, in any other manner after the Legislature of such State shall have assented thereto, and engaged that such funds shall yield not less than five per centum upon the amount so invested and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unimpaired; provided, that the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section five of this Act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this 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, in such manner as the Legislature 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.

The State has selected all the lands embraced in this grant except 13.95 acres.

CHAP. CLXVI-An Act concerning certain lands granted to the State

of Nevada.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the appropriation by the constitution of the State of Nevada to educational purposes of the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to said State by the law of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, for purposes of internal improvement, is hereby approved and confirmed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That land equal in amount to seventy-two entire sections, for the establishment and maintenance of a university in said State, is hereby granted to the State of Nevada.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the grant made by law of the second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to each State, of land equal to thirty thousand acres for each of its Senators and Representatives in Congress, is extended to the State of Nevada; and the diversion of the proceeds of these lands in Nevada from the teaching of agriculture and mechanic arts to that of the theory and practice of mining is allowed and authorized without causing a forfeiture of said grant. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a Surveyor-General for Nevada, who shall locate his office at such place as the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time direct, whose compensation shall be three thousand dollars per annum, and whose duties, powers, obligations, responsibilities,.

and allowances for clerk hire, office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses shall be the same as those of the Surveyor-General of Oregon, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and such instructions as he may from time to time deem it advisable to give him.

And be it further enacted, That in extending the surveys of the public lands in the State of Nevada, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, vary the lines of the subdivisions from a rectangular form to suit the circumstances of the country; but in all cases lands valuable for mines of gold, silver, quicksilver, or copper shall be reserved from sale.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That until the State of Nevada shall have received her full quota of lands named in the first, second, and third sections of this act, the public lands in that State shall not be subject to entry, sale, or location under any law of the United States, or any scrip or warrants issued in pursuance of any such law except the homestead act of May twentieth, eighteen hundred sixty-two, and acts amendatory thereto, and the acts granting and regulating preemptions, but shall be reserved exclusively for entry by the said State for the period of two years after such survey shall have been made: Provided, That said State shall select said lands in her own name and right, in tracts of not less than forty acres, and dispose of the same in tracts not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres, only to actual settlers and bona fide occupants: And provided further, That city and town property shall not be subject to selection under this act: And provided further, That this section shall not be construed to interfere with or impair rights heretofore acquired under any law of Congress.

Approved July 4, 1866.

UNIVERSITY GRANT-46,080 ACRES*

An act of Congress approved July 4, 1866, provides "that land equal in amount to seventy-two entire sections, for the establishment and maintenance of a university in said State, is hereby granted to the State of Nevada" Of the 46,080 acres of land donated in this grant, all have been selected except 0.11 acres.

CLAUSE IN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PRINTING, BINDING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS CONSTITUTING THE LAND-GRANT COLLEGE DEPOSITORIES.

"All land-grant colleges shall be constituted as depositories for public. documents, subject to the provisions and limitations of the depository laws."

Approved March 1, 1907.

ACT OF 1887 ESTABLISHING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS [Hatch Act]

An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquiring

*From Report of Surveyor-General of Nevada, 1913-1914.