---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 302"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "302"
heading: "Method of apportionment and selection; issuance of land scrip"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/302"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges"
  - "Subchapter I — College-Aid Land Appropriation"
---

# §302. Method of apportionment and selection; issuance of land scrip


The land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several [States](/usc/7/349.md) in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a [State](/usc/7/349.md) subject to sale at private entry at $1.25 per acre, the quantity to which said [State](/usc/7/349.md) shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such [State](/usc/7/349.md), and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to issue to each of the [States](/usc/7/349.md) in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at $1.25 per acre, to which said [State](/usc/7/349.md) may be entitled under the provisions of this subchapter, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said [States](/usc/7/349.md) and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in said sections, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, That in no case shall any [State](/usc/7/349.md) to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other [State](/usc/7/349.md), or of any Territory of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8), but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) subject to sale at private entry at $1.25, or less, per acre: And provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the [States](/usc/7/349.md): And provided further, That no such location shall be made before July 2, 1863.


## Source credit

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