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TABLE 1.-Data on. enforcement of termnn8 of first Morrill Act by the Statcs---Co.
IDtofNumaber ]Date of
Date of
accept-N Number Original
anceby of acres of acres total sale Date of opening
aes of land i organi- of land-
States in plac n scrip price re- zto rn
Institution of pro- in received ceived by o
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visions under Statesfor of land- college
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Morrill o At Act scrip college dents
Act dn
S 3 4 5 6 7Rutgers University.-. . . .
New Mexico College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts-------------------------..................................-
Cornell University_ . ..... .. .- ..._
North Carolina State College-...................
North Dakota Agricultural College---------...........
Ohio State University_............
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College
Oregon Agricultural College....................
Pennsylvania State College.................
University of Porto Rico _-___...........
Rhode Island State College_____.....
Clemson Agricultural College..................
South Dakota State College..................
University of Tennessee_ ...................
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. -
Agricultural College of Utah.................
University of Vermont---.........................
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College__
State College of Washington...................
West Virginia University.. ....__ ..
University of Wisconsin_.. __ ___.__ .
University of Wyoming........................ _
T otal-- - - - - - - - - - - . .- -1863
1898
1863
1866
1889
1864
1890
1868
1863
......
1863
1868
1889
1868
1866
1888
1862
1870
1889
1863
1863
1889----......... 210,000
250,000 ..........
.......... 990,000
.......... 270, 000
130,000 - .........
.---~-~--. 630,000
350,000 ,--------..
90,000 -- - --. _
------ 780,000
.......... 120,000
.......... 180,000
1F0,000 -------
.......... 300,000
.......... 180,000
200,000 -....---
.......... 150,000
... .... . 300,000
90,000 ...-..--
-.---------. 150.000
240,000- .-
90,000- .........$115, 945
1 688, 576
135,000
455, 924
340, 906
2 835, 637
202, 113
439, 186
...........
50,000
130, 500
128,804
271,875
174, 000
194, 136
122, 626
285, 000
247, 608
90, 000
303, 594
73,355--- - -3, 766.082 7, 30,000 13, 478. 946-
1766
1889
1865
1887
1890
1870
1890
1865
1855
1903
1888
1889
1881
1794
1871
1888
1791
1872
1890
1867
1848
18861771
1890
1868
1889
1891
1873
1891
1865
1859
1903
1890
1893
1884
1794
1876i
1890
1801
1872
1892
1868
1849
1887I Scrip bought by Mr. Cornell yielding later through resale $5,460,038 for institution.
2 $103,482 cash and $732,155 deferred payments on lands sold as of 1916.
The first State to accept the act was Iowa in September, 1862.
Vermont, the home State of Representative Morrill, expressed ac-
ceptance in October and the State of Connecticut in December of
the same year. As shown by the table, the act was accepted by 14
States in 1863, by 3 in 1864, by 1 in 1865, by 6 in 1866, by 4 in 1867,
by 3 in 1868; by 1 in 1869, and by 2 in 1870. Within a period of
eight years after the passage of the first Morrill Act, 37 States had
agreed to accept and carry out its provisions for the establishment of
the new type of college. At the time of the enactment, the Nation
was in the throes of Civil War. A provision of the law specifically
provided that no State in rebellion against the United States should
be entitled to benefit by the act. The result was that none of the
Southern States was able to comply with its terms until after the
termination of the war in 1865. With the end of the struggle, how-
ever, these States lost no time in expressing acceptance and during
the next five years all of them had agreed to receive the Federal land
grants and organize agricultural and mechanical colleges. Ten
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