Certainly it was not the intention of Congress to turn over the debts aud prospectively encumbered lands of an old and badly managed territorial institution, but to give the State that was to be, a grant for a State university, free from all con. nections with territorial organizations. Will you, therefore, take the steps indicated in the enabling act, and appoint, at an early day, some one to select two townships of land for the State university, incorporated by the last legislaturo? AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LAND GRANT. Under “An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862, Minnesota is entitled to 120,000 acres, of which none has been sold. THE FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES DUE THE STATE. The five hundred thousand acres due the State by the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands,” etc, approved the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, which, by provisions of the Constitutions of Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, Kansas, California, and Nevada, are appropriated to educational purposes, do not appear as yet to have been set apart by Minnesota. TABLE I.- Historical and stalistical data of the United States. [Compiled from Report of the Commissioner of the Land Office for 1867.) States and Territo ries. Act organizing Territory. Act admitting State. Area in sq. Populat'n miles. in 1860.1 C. S. Statutes. Vol. Page. U. S. Statutes. Vol. Page. Original Siales. New Hampshire West 9, 280 326, 073 7,800 | 1, 231, 066 1,306 174,620 4, 750 460, 147 47,000 3,8-0, 735 8.320 672, 035 46,000 2,906, 115 2, 120 112, 216 11, 134 687, C49 61,332 1,596, 318 50, 704 992. 622 34,000 703, 708 58,000 1,037, 236 States admitted, Feb. 4, 1791 Apr, 30, 1602 58 Dec. 11, 1814 549 Dee, 10, 1817 514 Dec. 3, 1818 371 Dec. 14, 1819 Mar. 3, 1820 743 Mar. 2, 1821 493 June 15, 1836 309 Jan. 26, 1837 654 Mer. 3, 1845 235 Dec. 29, 1845 Sept. 9, 1850 Dec. 31, 1862 12 13 277 Mar. 1, 1867 13 189 191 491 173 701 399 672 536 608 544 645 50 141 742 742 108 178 452 166 383 126 6:33 30 32 47 37, 680 1, 155, 684 *10,212 315, 098 45, 600 1, 109, 801 39, 961 2, 339, 502 *41, 346 708, 002 33, 809 1, 339, 428 47, 156 791, 305 *55, 410 1,711,951 50, 722 964, 201 *35, 000 628, 279 *65, 3501, 182, 012 52, 198 435, 450 *56, 451 749, 113 59, 268 140, 425 55, 045 674, 948 *274, 356 604, 215 53, 9:24 775, 881 *182, 981 305, 439 83, 531 173, 855 95, 274 52, 165 81,318 107, 206 23, 000 112, 090 6,857 *104,500 134, 277 75, 995 28,841 3 ....do Apr. 20, 1836 5 9 Mar. 3, 1849 10 Mar. 2, 1861 12 12 10 Territories. New Mexico. Sept. 9, 1850 ..do 9 9 10 122 12 12 13 446 453 172 239 664 808 85 : : : : : : 5.360,000 121,201 88,056 69, 994 240, 597 113,916 90, 932 143, 776 68, 991 1|10 m. sq. 577, 390 Russian purchase 126, 990 70,000 Area taken from geographical authorities and pot from public surveys. + Total population in 1860 way 31,500,000; estimated in 1867 to be 38,500,000, : To the white population in Nevada should be added 10,507 Indians; and in Colorado, 2,261 Indians. As estimated January 1, 1865. i Tbat portion of District of Columbia south of the Potomac river was retroceded to Virginia July 9, 1846, (Stat. vol. 6, p. 35.) 9 By census of 1867. TABLE II. --Showing the area of the several States and Territories containing public lands, and the quantity devoted for educational Remaining unsold 500. CO 2,000.00 10,016, 700.87 purposes by Congress up to June 30, 1867, (Compiled from Report of the Commissioner of the Land Office for 1867.) Donations and grants for States and Territories containing public land. Areas of States and Terri. tories containing public Granted for agricultural col. and unappro. priated June 30, 1867. scrip. Schools. Universities. Acres. Acres. Acres. 244, 384. 51 147, 797.25 21, 949. 46 225, 253. 88 960, 807. 59 2,097. 43 Ohio Total.. Sq. miles. 39, 964 577, 390 Acres 69, 120 240, 000. 96 1, 760.00 Acres. 77,568, 640 Acres. 704, 488 985, 066 902, 774 786, 044 886, 460 958, 649 Acres. 488, 803. 03 1, 920.00 411,959. 70 90, 000. 40 475,989. 58 1, 120.00 67,983, 914 1,082, 880 1, 159, 499.65 3, 192, 582. 22 44, 971. 11 • The whole quantity liable to be issued under the act of July 2, 1862, is 9,600,000 acres. PROVISIONS RESPECTING EDUCATION IN THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL STATES. PRELIMINARY REPORT. The following pages contain the provisions of the successive Constitutions of the several States, in reference to Education, Literature and Science, together with a series of propositions embracing the cardinal features of a system of public instruction, which the Constitution might make obligatory on the Legislature to establish. HENRY BARNARD, Commissioner. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WASHINGTON, 1868. CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION RESPECTING EDUCATION. Circular of Commissioner of Education,... Educational Clause in Slate Constitution........ School Codes of the United States, School Documents, ... 80 EO 80 80 80 80 |
