7 U.S.C. § 301

Land grant aid of colleges

“In this part, the term ‘1994 Institution’ means any of the following colleges:

There is granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned in this subchapter, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided , That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of said sections.

( July 2, 1862, ch. 130, § 1 , 12 Stat. 503 .)