II. ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE
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Title
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II. ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE
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Date
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1864
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Description
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Biennial Reports to the Governor
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Transcription
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II. ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERA-
TURE, MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE.
By an Act of Congress, approved April 19, 1864, in words as follows: That seventy sections of land (44,800 acres) shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a State University, and to be appropriated and applied as the Legislature may prescribe, for the purpose named, and for no other purpose; and by virtue of an act of the Legislature, approved February 15, 1869, accepting the donation of 90,000 acres of land granted by Congress of the United States to the State of Nebraska for the purpose of endowing a College for the "benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts," the State became entitled to the aforesaid land, to be used in establishing and supporting a State University and Agricultural College.
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Source
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Biennial Reports to the Governor
RG 01/01/03
Periodical: Report Number: Second
Pages: 12-13
Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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