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Morrill Hall, the first building of Cornell University, is named for Senator Justin Morrill, in honor of the Morrill Land-Grant act. Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University marks the site of College Hall which is the first building in the United States to teach agricultural science.
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (37th United States Congress, Sess. 2., ch. 126, 12 Stat. 501) was a federal enactment of the United States Congress that was signed into law on July 1, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln.
"In adjusting the details of a tariff," Morrill explained with a rhetorical flourish in his introduction of the bill, "I would treat agriculture, manufactures, mining, and commerce, as I would our whole people—as members of one family, all entitled to equal favor, and no one to be made the beast of burden to carry the packs of others." [23]
Morrill Hall at Iowa State University, one of several Morrill Halls at colleges created by the Morrill Act The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861. Passed after anti-tariff southerners had left Congress during the process of secession, Morrill designed it with the advice of Pennsylvania economist Henry C ...
Morrill Act of 1890: Amended the Morrill Act of 1862 to increase federal funding for land-grant universities. Pub. L. 51–841: 1914 Smith–Lever Act of 1914: Created a cooperative extension service through land-grant universities. Pub. L. 63–95: 1917 Smith–Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917: Amended the Smith–Lever Act to ...
The Military Lending Act caps card rates at 36% for active-duty service members and covered dependents. “You could probably imagine an upward cap of, let’s say, no more than 30%” for the ...
The university was initially funded by Ezra Cornell's $400,000 endowment and by New York's 989,920-acre (4,006.1 km 2) allotment of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. However, even before Ezra Cornell and Andrew White met in the New York Senate, each had separate plans and dreams that would draw them toward their collaboration in founding Cornell.
The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), which was recently signed into law by former president Joe Biden, eliminates rules that reduce Social Security benefits for those who also get income from...