---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 303"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "303"
heading: "Management expenses paid by State"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/303"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges"
  - "Subchapter I — College-Aid Land Appropriation"
---

# §303. Management expenses paid by State


All the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the [States](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said [States](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes in sections [304](/usc/7/304.md), [305](/usc/7/305.md), [307](/usc/7/307.md) and [308](/usc/7/308.md) of this title mentioned.


## Source credit

(July 2, 1862, ch. 130, § 3, 12 Stat. 504.)