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Brevier Legislative Reports, Volume X, 1869, 704 pp.
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page: 198[View Page: 198]

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR laid before the Senate the following message from the Governor:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27 1869.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

I herewith respectfully transmit to the General Assembly the following documents in relation to the location of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at the Tippecanoe Battle Ground, in Tippecanoe county, viz:

  1. A communication from Hon. John L. Miller and other citizens of Tippecanoe county, addressed to myself, communicating the propositions hereinafter mentioned, and requesting that said commu- page: 199[View Page 199] nication and accompanying papers may be laid before the General Assembly.
  2. A written proposition of the Trustees of the Tipppecanoe Battle Ground Institute of the Methodist Episcopal Church, located at the battle ground in Tippecanoe county, proposing to convey and donate to the State for the use of the Agricultural College, provided for by the act of Congress of July, 1862, the building and grounds of said Institute, said to he worth forty thousand dollars, upon condition that said College is permanently located by the General Assembly, at said Battle Ground.
  3. The written proposition of the Trustees of the Battle Ground Institute, located at the same place, proposing to convey and donate to the State for the use of the Agricultural College, the buildings and grounds of said last named Institute, said to be worth sixty thousand dollars, on condition that the Agricultural College shall be permanently located at said Battle Ground.
  4. A certified copy of an order of the Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe County, proposing to donate to the State the sum of $50,000 out of the treasury of said county, for the purpose of securing the location of the Agricultural College in Tippecanoe county; the said sum of fifty thousand dollars to he paid in five equal annual instalments of ten thousand dollars each, without interest, the first instalment to be paid at the expiration of one year from the date of the location of said college.

I respectfully commend this liberal offer on the part of Tippecanoe county and its citizens to the careful consideration of the General Assembly.

CONRAD BAKER.

It was referred to the joint Committee on Agriculture and Education.

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