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The capital of the common school fund ; the capital of the literature fund; the capital of the United States deposit fund ; the capital of the college land-scrip fund ; and the capital of the Cornell endowment fund, as it shall be paid into the treasury, shall each be preserved inviolate. The revenues of the common school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools ; the revenues of the literature fund shall be applied to the support of academies ; and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars of the revenue of the United States deposit fund shall each year be appropriated to, and made a part of, the capital of the common school fund ; the revenues of the college land-scrip fund shall each year be appropriated and applied to the support of the Cornell University, in the mode and for the purposes defined by the act of Congress donating public lands to the several States and Territories, approved July second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, so long as the University shall fully comply with and perform the conditions of the act of the Legislature establishing it ; and the revenues of the Cornell endowment fund shall each year be paid to the trustees of the Cornell University, for its use and benefit.