§ 302. — Method of apportionment and selection; issuance of land scrip.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC302]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 13--AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES
SUBCHAPTER I--COLLEGE-AID LAND APPROPRIATION
Sec. 302. Method of apportionment and selection; issuance of
land scrip
The land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to
the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less
than one-quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a
State subject to sale at private entry at $1.25 per acre, the quantity
to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands
within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is
directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the
quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at $1.25 per
acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this
subchapter, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its
distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the
proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in said
sections, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, That in
no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be
allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State, or of
any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate
said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United
States subject to sale at private entry at $1.25, or less, per acre: And
provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be located
by such assignees in any one of the States: And provided further, That
no such location shall be made before July 2, 1863.
(July 2, 1862, ch. 130, Sec. 2, 12 Stat. 503.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 304 of this title.
