State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Knowles
Supreme Court of Florida
The Congress of the United States, by an act approved July -2, 1862, granted to the several States an amount of public lands, to.be apportioned to each State, equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representativo; or, -where there .were no lands within the State subject to sale at private entry, land scrip for the amount in acres; the moneys derived from the sale of this land or scrip to be invested and to constitute a perpetual fund, the principal to remain…
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The Congress of the United States, by an act approved July -2, 1862, granted to the several States an amount of public lands, to.be apportioned to each State, equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representativo; or, -where there .were no lands within the State subject to sale at private entry, land scrip for the amount in acres; the moneys derived from the sale of this land or scrip to be invested and to constitute a perpetual fund, the principal to remain forever undiminished, and the interest to be appropriated to the endowment and support of at least one Agricultural…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice "Westcott
delivered the opinion of the court.
The respondents, who claim to be a body corporate and politic under the name of the “ Florida State Agricultural College,” are here called upon .and required by the State of Florida, upon the relation of the Attorney-General, to show by what title, right and authority they claim to exercise the franchise to be a corporation for the purpose of teaching such branches of learning as relate to the mechanical arts and agriculture, and generally-to exercise the powers of a •corporation, to sue and be sued, &c.
It is unnecessary to state at…
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