The National Land Grant

File — Box: 1, Folder: 29

Scope and Contents

1. Letter to Hewett from Sen. Morrill relating short history of his bill
2. A printed act from New York State Legislature concerning a settlement between New York and Ezra Cornell in reference to the sale and location of the college land scrip
3. A circular letter promoting the Morrill Bill of 1873 for further financial aid to agricultural colleges
4. Proposed resolution accepting the act mentioned in No. 2 above
5. An act from the records of the General Assembly of Conn. appropriating the scrip for public lands for that stated granted by Congress in the Morrill Act of 1862. With cover letter to Hewett from John J. Phelan, Secretary of Conn., Apr. 21, 1894
6. Printed speech of Jeremiah McGuire in New York State Assembly advocating proposed resolution (no. 2)
7. Newspaper clipping, Ithaca Daily Journal: "Report of the Commission to Into the College Land Grant at Cornell University"
8. Short piece on inadequacy of original grant of 1862
9. Governor Andros' address to state legislature in 1863 against cutting up grant into several pieces
10. Statistics of the vote on the first passage of the Land Grant Act in 1858