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A Land Grant University is a university or college that benefitted from the passage of the Morrill Acts in 1862and 1890. The Morrill Act of 1862, generally referred to as the Land Grant Act, established the land-grant university system. Each state was given 30,000 acres of public land, for each senator and representative, based on the 1860 census. Proceeds from the sale of these lands were to be invested in a perpetual endowment fund that would provide support for colleges of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in each of the states. The establishment of Florida Agriculture College at Lake City in 1894 under the Morrill Act marked the beginning of what became the College of Agriculture of the University of Florida in 1906.