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Excerpt from Agricultural College: Address of Hon. A.A. Sargent, Delivered Before the State Agricultural Society, September 21, 1865
By the report of the State surveyor-general of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, it is shown that of all the grants of land to this State for various purposes, not a single acre of any description has been listed or patented to the State, although all the duties required of the State officers have been zealously performed for fourteen years, and very much of the land has been sold by the State. Notwithstanding frequent attempts of the State Legislature to remedy the difficulty, and equita ble decisions of our Supreme Court, the titles of nine thousand citizens, pioneer purchasers, are in an inchoate state, subject to attack, a frequent source of litigation, and consequent distress and poverty. The pres perity of the State must be greatly damaged by this unsettled, uncertain condition of titles, for thrif'tlessness must result. The only remedy is further legislation by Congress to compel the subordinate officers at Washington to comply with the terms of donation, and rescue the titles of our farmers from embarrassing uncertainty. I am not hopeful that the State can realize for many years to come any substantial benefits from the grant of one hundred and fifty thousand acres for an agricul tural college. The public lands heretofore ceded to the State for specific purposes must first be segregated, and the titles granted by the State in good faith he recognized by the Government. The remainder must be surveyed and brought into market. Such portions as then fail to find purchasers will be subject to private entry, and will be available under the college grant for what they are. Worth. The lands granted for the purposes of this college will thus be the very last in the State upon which there can be anything realized and nothing can be expected from this source for a long time to come. Yet by the Act we are required to establish the college within five years from the passage of the Act, or we shall forfeit the donation. The next Legislature must take therequisite steps for this purpose, or we lose whatever advantages may be derived' from the grant.
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