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	Second Morrill Act of 1890
		841.--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.
		(2) 7 U.S.C. The Act of March 4, 1907, ch.
		Original section 5 of the Act of August 30, 1890, with respect to annual reports by the Secretary of the Interior was repealed by the Act of May 29, 1928, 45 Stat.
	www.csrees.usda.gov /about/offices/legis/secondmorrill.html (615 words)

	Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
		The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Acts are pieces of US legislation which allowed for the creation land-grant universities, which would be funded by the grant of federally-controlled land to each of the states.
		The Morrill Act was first proposed by Representative Justin Smith Morrill[?] in 1857.
		The second Morrill Act was signed by President Lincoln on July 2, 1862.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Morrill_Act.html (170 words)

	Morrill Act
		Act of 1862 Donating Lands for Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
		AN ACT Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts
		No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President.
	www.oardc.ohio-state.edu /www/morrill.html (306 words)

	Land-Grant Colleges
		The original mission of these institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so that members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education.
		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.
		The Morrill Act was intended to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.
	www.cals.cornell.edu /cals/about/overview/land-grant.cfm (975 words)

	Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1852 Morrill was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1867).
		Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres 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 act also required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/morrill.html (439 words)

	Land Grant Information * Events
		The original mission of these institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanical arts as well as classical studies so that members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education.
		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.
		Morrill’s bill was designed to donate federal land (30,000 acres) to each state and territory as an endowment.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/whatislg.htm (1814 words)

	Morrill Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		Officially titled "An Act Donating Public Lands to the Several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," the Morrill Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation.
		The Senate passed the Morrill Act by a vote of 32 to 7 on June 10, 1862.
		The House of Representatives passed this act by a vote of 90 to 25 on June 17, 1862.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Morrill.html (441 words)

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		The legislative history of the Second Morrill Act suggests that Congress believed that the appropriated funds would in fact be used to supplement the funds available to the land-grant colleges and departments that had been established by the states pursuant to the First Morrill Act.
		The Second Morrill Act's (invalid) racial segregation proviso deemed the establishment of institutions for "colored students" to be compliance with the proviso that forbade discrimination in the admission of students based on race or color.
		In their document, Atherton and Alvord interpreted the second Morrill Act as a "supplement to the Act of 1862." They were careful to note that the latter act applied only to institutions designated by their state legislatures to receive funds from the original act.
	www.usdoj.gov /olc/reconsid.htm (10235 words)

	Cooperative Extension and the 1890 Land-Grant Institution: The Real Story
		The Morrill Act provided grants for land to states for the establishment and maintenance of at least one college where the leading objective was teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and military tactics.
		The charge and purpose of the 1862 Morrill Act was to democratize higher education and establish institutions for educating Americans.
		In 1890, the second Morrill Act was passed as a result of economic, social, and political issues in the postwar reconstruction era.
	www.joe.org /joe/2006june/a4.shtml (2773 words)

	Justin Morrill Junkie: NMSU's Vice President Owens Digs Dirt, Surfs Net for Hobby
		Justin Smith Morrill was born in 1801, the son of a flsmith.
		Morrill ran a general store in Strafford and then turned to farming before he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1855.
		It was there that he sponsored the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, which created the nation's land-grant university system that boasts at least one university in each state.
	www.cahe.nmsu.edu /news/1999/121799_MORRILL.html (991 words)

	1890
		Morrill was born in 1810 at Strafford, Vermont.
		Morrill was an early Republican and was elected by the Vermont legislature in 1866 to the Senate where he served until his death in 1898.
		Morrill strongly supported this opportunity for fl students but there is no evidence that he envisioned the impact his 1890 Act would have on the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
	www.tandl.vt.edu /socialstudies/hicks/cjohnsto/1890.htm (7433 words)

	Shrine to Justin Smith Morrill
		The genius of the Morrill Act was two-fold, in accord with its two governing principles: the equality of opportunity, and the utility of knowledge.
		The web is full of references to Justin Morrill and the Morrill Act, but if you want to get a handle on the state of the land-grant tradition, the best place to start is with the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
		Intended to bring to light the Illinois origins of the main tenets of the Morrill Act, this bulletin is particularly valuable for primary documents explicating the views of Turner on industrial education, including his peculiar conception of "liberal" education.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/isern/morrill.htm (1335 words)

	UNL \| College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Justin Smith Morrill authored the Morrill Act in 1862, establishing Land Grant universities across the nation.
		In spring 2007, the Justin Smith Morrill Scholars Organization was formed by the scholars to take advantage of the on-campus opportunities afforded to students through the UNL Association of Students - Student Government.
		Morrill's 1862 Land-Grant Act, followed by the second Act in 1890, allocated the funds from the sale of federal lands to support new Land-Grant colleges and universities that taught agriculture, business, engineering, mechanics and home economics.
	casnr.unl.edu /jsmorrill (544 words)

	PBPB \| Public Broadcasting PolicyBase
		One hundred years later, another President and Congress acted to ensure that a portion of one of the nation's most valuable assets would be dedicated to the advancement of education, for the benefit of the nation, her economy, and the welfare of all of her people.
		Like the Morrill Act of 1862, the Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962 and its successor Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 have resulted in the establishment of dozens of new institutions across the country dedicated to broad public education.
		The Morrill Act not only encouraged the establishment of new educational institutions; it contributed a valuable asset toward the endowment of those institutions and thus toward an assurance of their continuing capacity to extend and enlarge their benefit to the public.
	www.current.org /pbpb/articles/morrillgunnpaper.html (2180 words)

	VHS:Justin Smith Morrill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A native of Strafford, Vermont, the son of a flsmith, Morrill was a self-made man. Born in 1810, he went off to Maine in 1828 to clerk at a general store.
		Nonetheless Morrill had a high regard for learning, founded a subscription library in 1827, helped start a lyceum in Vermont in 1831, began to acquire his own library in the 1830s, and when he traveled west in 1841, kept a careful record of his observations.
		Morrill died in office in 1898, with thirty-one years of service in Congress, one of the longest congressional careers in American history.
	www.vermonthistory.org /sherman/morrill.htm (676 words)

	Land-Grant and Sea-Grant Information
		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.
		An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
		An act authorizing the establishment and operation of sea grant colleges and programs by initiating and supporting programs of education and research in the various fields relating to the development of marine resources, and for other purposes.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant (1053 words)

	IMPACT-History and Philosophy of Extension
		The first of those was the Morrill Act of 1862, which created the land-grant university system.
		When the Morrill Act was passed, few people could have guessed its impact on the nation.
		Passed in 1887, the Hatch Act authorized establishment of agricultural experiment stations to expand research capabilities of the land-grant universities.
	muextension.missouri.edu /extcouncil/Impacts/9.htm (926 words)

	NASULGC: Land Grant Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Morrill Act was intended to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.
		The Second Morrill Act (1890) sought to extend access to higher education by providing additional endowments for all land-grants, but prohibiting distribution of money to states that made distinctions of race in admissions.
		Morrill first introduced a land-grant bill in Congress in 1857, which after much struggle was passed in 1859 only to be vetoed by President James Buchanan.
	www.nasulgc.org /publications/Land_Grant/land.htm (948 words)

	President Lincoln and the Morrill Act
		This situation was rectified when the Second Morrill Act was passed and expanded the system of grants to include fl institutions.
		The Morrill Act changed the face of education and made room for our growing and ever changing country and ensured that there would always be money to finance educational facilities and that there would be continual government support of these institutions.
		Not only did Lincoln sign the Morrill Act, but he also signed the Homestead Act, commissioned the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and bought Alaska, all while paying for the most expensive war in US history and not getting a dime of taxes from the Southern states.
	p220.ezboard.com /fhistoryworldfrm17.showMessage?topicID=108.topic (851 words)

	Justin Smith Morrill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810 – December 28, 1898) was a Representative (1855–1867) and a Senator (1867–1898) from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for many of the nation's colleges and universities.
		Born in Strafford, Vermont, Morrill attended the common schools and Thetford and Randolph Academies; he attended Middlebury where he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity; he worked as a merchant’s clerk in Strafford 1825–1828 and in Portland, Maine, 1828–1831; merchant in Strafford 1831–1848; engaged in agriculture and horticulture 1848–1855.
		In 1852 Morrill was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855–March 3, 1867).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justin_Smith_Morrill (599 words)

	IMPACT-History and Philosophy of Extension
		The first of those was the Morrill Act of 1862, which created the land-grant university system.
		When the Morrill Act was passed, few people could have guessed its impact on the nation.
		Passed in 1887, the Hatch Act authorized establishment of agricultural experiment stations to expand research capabilities of the land-grant universities.
	extension.missouri.edu /extcouncil/Impacts/9.htm (926 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		In 1854 the Republican party termed polygamy and slavery the "twin relics of barbarism." In 1862 the United States Congress passed the Morrill Act, which prohibited plural marriage in the territories, disincorporated the Mormon Church, and restricted the church's ownership of property.
		In 1882 Congress passed the Edmunds Act, which was actually a series of amendments to the Morrill Act.
		Because the Edmunds Act was unsuccessful in controlling polygamy in Utah, in 1884 Congress debated legislation to plug the loopholes.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/p/POLYGAMY.html (1297 words)

	IAHEES Guidelines
		AN ACT Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts
		No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President.
		And be it further enacted, That the land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as Is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws; Provided, That their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.
	www.ag.iastate.edu /iaexp/projects/morrill.html (295 words)

	Morrill Act, 1862
		Sponsored by Senator Justin Morrill of VermontAn Act Donating public lands to the several States and [Territories] which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the Mechanic art marked the first Federal aid to higher education.
		The Morrill Act committed the Federal Government to grant each state 30,000 acres of public land issued in the form ofland scri certificates for each of its Representatives and Senators in Congress.
		Citation: Act of July 2, 1862 (Morrill Act), Public Law 37-108, which established land grant colleges, 07/02/1862; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1996; Record Group 11; General Records of the United States Government; National Archives.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_125.shtml (1405 words)

	The Hatch Act - OAES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Hatch Act can be likened to a sturdy bridge between the Morrill Act, signed by President Lincoln in 1862, and the Smith-Lever Act of 1914.
		The Morrill Act gave states authorization to sell public lands to create land-grant universities, which were to teach agriculture and the mechanical arts.
		The Hatch Act of 1887, revised in 1955, states that experiment stations should, "conduct original and other research, investigations and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural industry.
	www.dasnr.okstate.edu /oaes/hatch.htm (303 words)

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		The Act of 1862 proposed a system of broad education by colleges, not limited to a superficial and dwarfed training, such as might be supplied by a foreman of a workshop or by a foreman of an experimental farm.
		The federal support contemplated in the initial Morrill Act was to be the income from public lands (30,000 acres or equivalent in scrip for each representative and senator) made available to each state.
		In 1890, the Second Morrill Act was passed, supplementing by direct appropriation the income from the land-grants.
	www.wvu.edu /~exten/about/land.htm (3169 words)

	Land Grant Information * First Morrill Act
		When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished.
		Any exchange authorized by the first section of this Act shall be made in accordance with the applicable provisions of section 7 or the Act of March 1, 1911, commonly referred to as the Weeks Law (16 U.S.C., sec.
		Any land conveyed to the State of Missouri under authority of this Act shall, upon acceptance of such conveyance by such State, be held and considered to be granted to such State subject to the provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, referred to in the first section of this Act."
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/morrill1.htm (907 words)

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