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- noun historical A
certificate entitling the holder toland ownership inTexas .
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He procured from the General Assembly the grant of the Agricultural College landscrip, but only a small amount of the proceeds could be made available, except after long delay.
Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900 Charles Harden 1896
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General Howard, as head of the Freedmen's Bureau, helped the work generously; money was given, a large farm was purchased, and in 1872 the school received its first aid from Virginia, in landscrip to the amount of $95,000, bestowed on the institution in its character of agricultural college.
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