of Congress, chapter one hundred and thirty, statutes-at-large, eighteen hundred and sixty-one and two,
donating public lands to the several States and Terri-
tories which may provide colleges for the benefit of
agriculture and the mechanic arts; and
'WHEREAS, section twenty, of said Act of Assem-
bly, in accordance with the requirements and almost
in the words of said Act of Congress, directs the
Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, to pay
all expenses of the management, superintendence,
and taxes for, and all the incidentals connected with
or arising out of the management of said lands, so
that the entire proceeds of sale shall be applied without
any diminution whatever to the purposes mentioned
in the Act of Congress, and as expressly required by
that Act; and
WHEREAS, by Act of Assembly of eighteen hundred
and sixty-five, chapter one hundred and seventy-
eight, the whole annual income from the fund arising
from the sale of agricultural land scrip appropriated
as aforesaid by Act of Congress, was directed to be
paid regularly by the Comptroller, " without diminu-
tion," to the Maryland Agricultural College; and
WHEREAS, by Act of Assembly of eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, chapter fifty-three, the Legislature did
diminish the said land fund so provided by Act of
Congress and so accepted by Act of Assembly, and
so appropriated to the said Maryland Agricultural
College, by directing ten per centum of the whole
amount to be paid into the Treasury of the State, so
diminishing the said fund by the sum of eleven
thousand and two hundred and fifty dollars; and
WHEREAS, the Comptroller of the Treasury in the
several years past has further diminished the annual
interest arising from the said fund by withholding
from the yearly payments the sum of ninety dollars
as a State tax and
WHEREAS, section five of the said Act of Congress,
the terms of which were formally accepted by the
State, expressly requires " that if any portion of the
funds, or any portion of the interest thereof shall, by
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