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	Land-grant university - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Land-grant universities (also called land-grant colleges or land grant institutions) are institutions of higher education in the United States which have been designated by Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
		The mission of these institutions, as set forth in the 1862 Act, is to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts, not to the exclusion of classical studies, so that members of the working classes might obtain a practical college education.
		The University of the District of Columbia received land-grant status and a $7.24 million endowment (USD), in lieu of a land grant, in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land-grant_university (427 words)

	Land grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A land grant is a gift of land made by the government for projects such as roads, railroads, or rewards for military service, or especially academic institutions.
		During the 1800s, four out of five of the transcontinental railroads in the United States were built using land grants, as was the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		Regarding academia, the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 have given nearly 100 U.S. colleges and universities large areas of public land, which in turn were sold by the institutions and the proceeds placed into endowment funds to provide them financial support in creating and sustaining agricultural and mechanical academic programs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_grant (147 words)

	Land Grant Universities Are Changing
		Land grant faculty are confused and, with exceptions, on balance still resist the idea that their enterprise must change in any fundamental way.
		It is necessary to understand that the land grant movement was led, not by farmers as such, but by middle class professionals who feared that the industrial revolution of 19th century America was pushing agrarian and urban workers into a disadvantaged underclass.
		Today, most land grant universities and colleges of agriculture are being forced to shift their relative focus more toward the problems and expectation of their states.
	www.adec.edu /clemson/papers/bonnen1.html (3955 words)

	The Land Grant
		It appears that a land grant of a selection was "wot was promesed" by Moorhouse prior to Adams and Kudnarto leaving Adelaide.
		He was adamant that title to the land remain with the government and held by Moorhouse in trust for the Adams family.
		Although the land remained in trust with the Protector of Aborigines, the Licence gave Kudnarto full and free usage of the land on the condition that she in reality resided upon the land.
	kudnarto.tripod.com /ch13.htm (2678 words)

	The Land Grant Process In North Carolina
		In colonial North Carolina it was possible to obtain a grant of vacant land for importing people into the colony (called the headright grant) or to purchase vacant land from the government (a purchase grant).
		The whole granting process probably cost the average small farmer several months earnings, but in North Carolina where it was not possible to obtain title to land simply by squatting on it.
		When the land office reopened in 1778, it opened as the State land office under authority of a sovereign people who had assumed title in themselves to all vacant lands within their charted boundaries.
	www.pipesfamily.com /landgrant.htm (775 words)

	CT DEP: Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Grant Program
		The Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Grant Program provides financial assistance to municipalities and nonprofit land conservation organizations to acquire land for open space and to water companies to acquire land to be classified as Class I or Class II water supply property.
		Land acquired shall be preserved in perpetuity: 1) predominately in its natural scenic and open condition or; 2) for the protection or provision of potable water or; 3) for agriculture.
		Land identified for acquisition will be evaluated by a review team consisting of personnel from the various resource management divisions of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture.
	www.dep.state.ct.us /rec/openspace/opensp31.htm (740 words)

	Land
		Land is immovable, as distinct from chattels, which are moveable; it is also, in its legal significance, indestructible.
		The government only had limited ability to own land, as before mentioned, and all of the remainder of the land was held in the sole disposition of the United States until it was granted under act of Congress by the hand and seal of the President to some person.
		Which means that the Land came to the nation by treaty and the patent assigns a specific part of that treaty to you and your heirs and assigns forever.
	www.teamlaw.org /land.htm (1210 words)

	Ohioline: The Land Grant System of Education in the United States
		Today's modern land grant university offers many programs other than agriculture and the mechanic arts, but the original mission is still unique relative to other public universities: academic instruction via the classroom; non-formal or continuing education through Extension programs, and basic and applied research produced by experiment stations and other university research components.
		Another unique aspect of the land grant system is that there are advisory committees in all counties and all states that determine local educational needs of the public and which counsel the system about priorities and programs.
		In the land grant system, there is much pride and satisfaction in being able to provide practical knowledge and information, based on unbiased scientific research, to citizens everywhere, both rural and urban.
	ohioline.osu.edu /lines/lgrant.html (549 words)

	Land grant
		Land grant colleges are committed to providing both a practical and a liberal arts education: applied sciences and the arts.
		The Morrill Act of 1862 gave states a grant of 30,000 acres of public land for every member of its congressional delegation.
		These land grant colleges have halls named in honor of Rep. Justin Morrill and the Morrill Act.
	www.msu.edu /~simonsjo/history/edisonhistory/landgrant/template.html (105 words)

	Land-Grant and Sea-Grant Information
		Proceeds from the sale of these lands were to be invested in a perpetual endowment fund which would provide support for colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts in each of the states.
		AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
		The term "Sea Grant" was chosen to emphasize the parallel between this new program focusing on the nation's marine resources, and the Land Grant Program, which was created more than a century earlier to develop our agricultural resources.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant (1046 words)

	Grant County Records Inventory: Federal Land Grant Records
		Donation land claims are the most common type of federal land grant in Oregon that is documented in this inventory project.
		Donation land claims resulted from an act of the 1850 Congress under which citizens of the United States, or those who filed a declaration of intention prior to December 1, 1850 and had resided upon or cultivated the land for four consecutive years, were granted a specified amount of acreage in the Oregon Territory.
		Under the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers were given 160 acres of land in the public domain if they built a home on the land, resided there for five years, and cultivated the land.
	www.sos.state.or.us /archives/county/cpgrant/fed.html (251 words)

	Land Challenge Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The land foundation is a non-profit land trust that works with private landowners in Kane County to ensure their property is protected from development.
		It is a member of the Land Trust Alliance, a national land conservation movement comprised of more than 1,200 regional land trusts that together have conserved more than 6.2 million acres of private land in the United States.
		Landowners can guarantee that the land they love – whether a field of wildflowers, a corner woodlot or a pristine wetland – will be preserved forever in the condition they choose.
	www.fvlf.org /land.html (288 words)

	Land-grant university at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Land Grant colleges) are American institutions which have been designated by a state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 -- funding by the grant of federally-controlled land to the states.
		The University of the District of Columbia received land grant status and a US$ 7.24 million endowment, in lieu of a land grant, in 1967.
		In 1994, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium also received land grant status and 29 additional land grant colleges were created under the Elementary and Secondary Educaton Reauthorization Act.
	wiki.tatet.com /Land-grant_university.html (372 words)

	Land Grant Bills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A homestead act would have made free western land available to unemployed working men and given them a chance to be independent landowners and farmers.
		Their major disagreement with the project, which would have enabled the country to tap the vast wealth of the West, was that the eastern terminus of the railroad was expected to be at St. Louis of Chicago and not a Southern city.
		Southerners also blocked a land-grant college act, which would have provided government-owned land to states for the establishment of agricultural and mechanical schools.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/landgrantbills.html (344 words)

	Encyclopedia: Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Land-grant universities (also called land-grant colleges or land grant institutions) are American institutions which have been designated by a Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
		Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres (121 kmÂ²) of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
		This land, or the proceeds from its sale, was to be used toward establishing and funding the educational institutions described above.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morrill-Land_Grant-Colleges-Act (788 words)

	Forest Guardians Bill Analysis - Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Grant Claims
		Delays and misunderstanding resulted from the fact that land grants were established under one legal system (Hispanic customary law) and adjudicated under another (Anglo common law).
		Because of the enormous impact privatization could have on public lands in northern New Mexico, it is vital that this legislation be introduced as a free standing bill subject to full public scrutiny.
		However, if injustices can be well documented and the only way to address grievances to the satisfaction of land grant claimants is to transfer ownership of public lands, then such actions should only be taken to the extent that private lands of comparable or greater ecological value be acquired for inclusion in the public domain.
	www.getnet.com /~1stbooks/grant.htm (851 words)

	The Land-Grant Tradition
		Congress gave each state an allotment of federal land — 30,000 acres for each senator and representative the state had in Congress.
		The states were to sell the land and use the proceeds to create endowments, which in turn would provide dependable support for colleges that agreed to introduce the new curriculum.
		Pennsylvania received 780,000 acres of land, which were sold for a total of $439,000.
	www.psu.edu /ur/about/landgrant.html (341 words)

	Archives and Historical Services Division - Researching Land Grants
		Land grants were made to individuals and communities during the Spanish (1598-1821) and Mexican (1821-1846) periods of New Mexico's history.
		The two major types of land grants were private grants made to individuals, and communal grants made to groups of individuals for the purpose of establishing settlements.
		Communal land grants were also made to Pueblos for the lands they inhabited.
	www.nmcpr.state.nm.us /archives/land_grants.htm (863 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PONCE DE LEON LAND GRANT
		Ponce de León improved and farmed the land and built a house that was washed away in the spring of 1830 by a flood.
		For various reasons, mostly attempts by persons with no claim to the land trying to discredit boundary lines because of the land's increasing value, the grant was embroiled in lawsuits throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century.
		In a suit filed on February 24, 1873, in the Twenty-fifth Judicial District Court of Texas and upheld by the Texas Supreme Court, it was found that the grant was larger because the river had changed course, that the original grant was 247 acres, and that the accretion grant of 1830 was approximately 352 acres.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/mmp1.html (653 words)

	United States Government to Review New Mexico Land Grant Rights Under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
		The land grants were to be honored by the U.S. under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo that was signed at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848.
		Literature on land grants in New Mexico and popular terminology generally distinguish between two kinds of land grants: “community land grants” and “individual land grants.” Our research identified a total of 295 grants made by Spain and México during this period.
		To identify land grants meeting the definition of community land grants, we reviewed U.S. records on Spanish and Mexican land grant claims; literature on land grants, including materials on specific grants; and federal court cases.
	aztlan.net /treatynm.htm (1191 words)

	Spanish Land Grant Claims
		Hand-colored plat maps such as this one by Surveyor Robert McHardy are among the documents used to establish ownership of land in Florida after it became a territory of the United States in 1821.
		The U.S. Board of Land Commissioners was established in 1822 (3 U.S. Statute 709, May 8) to settle all outstanding Spanish land grant claims in the territory that Spain ceded to the United States the previous year.
		Each land claim with its supporting documents is encased in a manila jacket on which appears the name of the applicant, the number of acres claimed, the disposition of the claim, and page reference to the American State Papers.
	www.floridamemory.com /Collections/SpanishLandGrants (376 words)

	Land Grant Information * Events
		The first Morrill Act provided grants in the form of federal lands to each state for the establishment of a public institution to fulfill the act's provisions.
		This land was then sold by states and the sales income was to be used to support teachers within the states’ Land-Grant College.
		The intent of the bill was to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/whatislg.htm (1814 words)

	The Public View of Land Grant Universities: Results From a National Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The authors argue that land grant universities need to recapture their three traditional functions, in part by reinventing outreach and continuous distance education in the contemporary context of an information age.
		Immediately after this series of questions about land grant services in their state, respondents were asked how they would distribute $100 of state tax money to educational services beyond high school.
		In responding to these pressures, land grant universities have an enormous advantage when compared to other higher education institutions; they have a long tradition of providing outreach, as well as offering the kind of continuous, lifelong learning that is becoming essential to success in the information age.
	ag.arizona.edu /extension/reference/perception/landgrant (1312 words)

	Floridian: Genealogy: Land grant records can produce research gems
		That's because changing legislation routinely affected regulations and eligibility requirements for getting free land from the government, the location of land in the public domain varies depending on the time frame, and the land grant could have come from either the federal government or a state government.
		Bounty land, homesteading, donation land entries and individual claims are the biggies.
		DONATION LAND ENTRIES: To help strengthen America and to lay claim to land that might be in dispute with another country, the federal government gave away land in Florida, Oregon and Washington before the Civil War to just about anyone willing to settle it.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/03/28/Floridian/Genealogy__Land_grant.shtml (682 words)

	Land Grant
		Weiant II (Wiant Panebecker), as an assignee of Jacob Myers, was granted 400 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky on December 1, 1783.
		The land was surveyed and assigned to him on January 2, 1787 and recorded February 22, 1790.
		Weiant's land grant, originally described in Nelson County in 1787, is now in Bullitt County near Shepherdsville.
	webpages.charter.net /pepbaker/nelcoky.htm (1242 words)

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