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	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

	K.State University Land Grant Program: Pawpaw Information Web Site
		Grant to T.S. Kochhar, Kazi Javed, and Kirk Pomper for $165,000 in 2001.
		USDA Capacity Building grant entitled: "Identification of pawpaw genotypes with high fruit antioxidant capacity" was funded for $293,250; the grant was coauthored by Changzheng Wang and Kirk Pomper in 2003.
		Planning grant awarded to Curt Rom in 2004 (Kirk Pomper is the Coordinator for Kentucky on this grant).
	www.pawpaw.kysu.edu /webres4.htm

	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 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.
		The universities were initially known as land-grant colleges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land-grant_university

	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

	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.
		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.
		He was adamant that title to the land remain with the government and held by Moorhouse in trust for the Adams family.
	kudnarto.tripod.com /ch13.htm

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

	Grant County Records Inventory: Federal Land Grant Records
		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.
		Donation land claims are the most common type of federal land grant in Oregon that is documented in this inventory project.
		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

	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

	Land Grant Bills
		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.
		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.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/landgrantbills.html

	Land Challenge Grant
		Other 2003 Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation grantees include: The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Audubon Society, McHenry County Conservation Foundation, Forest Preserve District of Will County, Tri-County Regional Planning Commission and the Land Conservancy of McHenry County.
		ELGIN -- Fox Valley Land Foundation recently received a $40,000 "Land Conservation Challenge Grant" from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation.
		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.
	www.fvlf.org /land.html

	Land-Grant and Sea-Grant Information
		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.
		The renamed University of Florida was now the land grant college in Florida and the Agricultural Experiment Station became a unit of the College of Agriculture at UF.
		The new piece of legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont granted to each state 30,000 acres of public land for each Senator and Representative under apportionment based on the 1860 census.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant

	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.
		Under Spanish and Mexican law, common land was set aside as part of the original grant for the use of the entire community.
	aztlan.net /treatynm.htm

	Spanish Land Grant Claims
		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.
		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.
	www.floridamemory.com /Collections/SpanishLandGrants

	Land
		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.
		Land is immovable, as distinct from chattels, which are moveable; it is also, in its legal significance, indestructible.
	www.teamlaw.org /land.htm

	The Land-Grant Tradition
		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.
		Congress gave each state an allotment of federal land — 30,000 acres for each senator and representative the state had in Congress.
	www.psu.edu /ur/about/landgrant.html

	The Land Grant Process In North Carolina
		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.
		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).
		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

	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

	Ohioline: The Land Grant System of Education in the United States
		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.
		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.
		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

	Dartmo.: New Hampshire College: The Land-Grant School in Hanover
		It was rated one of the nation's poorest of land grant institutions, though the fact that it relied on Dartmouth buildings skewed the comparison.
		The land remained a carefully cultivated patch of ground that witnessed the physical struggles of students; but after 1892 these struggles were devoted to sport rather than agriculture.
		Twelve states gave their grants to novel agricultural and mechanical colleges, nineteen gave to existing state universities or colleges, and six gave to existing private colleges.
	www.dartmo.com /nhc

	land grant college : learn about land grant college
		That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall...
		He coaches football at a Carolinas land grant institution whose fervent fans hope to challenge Florida State and Boston College for the ACC Atlantic Division title, though his team hasn't proven up to the task.
		Land Grant colleges) are American institutions which have been designated by...
	www.college--loans.com /college-grants/land-grant-college.html

	Land Grant
		Weiant's land grant, originally described in Nelson County in 1787, is now in Bullitt County near Shepherdsville.
		Montgomery Co, PA Bullitt Co, KY Bullitt Co, KY Bullitt Co, KY It seems evident that Weiant was first in Nelson Co, KY by 1787 as his Nelson Co, KY land grant was assigned to him that year, the grant was surveyed in 1790 and he is on the Nelson County 1790 Tax List.
		Weiant II (Wiant Panebecker), as an assignee of Jacob Myers, was granted 400 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky on December 1, 1783.
	webpages.charter.net /pepbaker/nelcoky.htm

	The Public View of Land Grant Universities: Results From a National Survey
		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.
		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.
	ag.arizona.edu /extension/reference/perception/landgrant

	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.
		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.
		Bounty land, homesteading, donation land entries and individual claims are the biggies.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/03/28/Floridian/Genealogy__Land_grant.shtml

	Encyclopedia: Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
		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.
		The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are pieces of US legislation which allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, which would be funded by the grant of federally-controlled land to each of the states which had stayed with the United States during the American Civil War.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morrill-Land_Grant-Colleges-Act

	Forest Guardians Bill Analysis - Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Grant Claims
		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.
		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.
	www.getnet.com /~1stbooks/grant.htm

	Handbook of Texas Online: RONQUILLO LAND GRANT
		Meanwhile, an E. Ronquillo began investigations to claim the grant, asserting that the land had not been legally conveyed to the purchasers, and that it therefore could not belong to Juana Pedrasa Leaton, but remained the property of the heirs of José Ygnacio Ronquillo, who died in 1860 at San Elizario.
		The Ronquillo land grant, 225 leagues now part of Presidio, Brewster, and Jeff Davis counties, would never have become historically important if John W. Spencer had not discovered silver there in 1880.
		The court held that a valid grant was issued to José Ygnacio Ronquillo in 1832, but that Alcalde Herrera was unauthorized to waive the restrictions on the grant.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/mnr1.html

	Handbook of Texas Online: PONCE DE LEON LAND GRANT
		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.
		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.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/mmp1.html

	Rev War Land Grant
		Source: Secretary of State Land Grant Office, Warrants, Plats, Surveys and Related Documents (S.108.388; Tennessee County, TN)
		The land is located on the west side of Yellow Creek, which is now in Dickson County, TN (west of Nashville, TN).
		He then sold the grant to Thomas Hays, on September 30, 1785 (the day after he received it).
	www.danielhaston.com /daniel/landgrant01.htm

	Reader's Companion to American History - -MORRILL LAND GRANT ACT
		The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 gave to every state that had remained within the Union a huge tract of federal land, each state receiving a number of acres equivalent to the number of members in its congressional delegation multiplied by 30,000.
		(States that had insufficient federal acreage within their own borders were given land on the frontier.) The states were to sell the land and use the proceeds to endow at least one college that would offer courses in agriculture, engineering, and home economics, as well as regular academic programs.
		This bill, which its sponsor, Congressman Justin Morrill of Vermont, had pressed for since 1857, represented a total grant of more than 17 million acres, from the sale of which the states received some $7 million.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_061400_morrilllandg.htm

	The Iowa Stater
		The act called for the federal government to provide each state with a grant of land that could be sold to finance a college, hence the name "land-grant." Iowa was the first state to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act and good money managers parlayed 204,000 acres into an $800,000 endowment for a university.
		Before the land- grant universities, college was for a select and scholarly few -- who mostly went to school to study Latin, logic and other classical topics.
		The Land-Grant Act (also called the Morrill Act) promoted the notion that a student might attend college to learn to grow corn, build a bridge, even raise a child.
	www.iastate.edu /IaStater/1997/feb/landgrant.html

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