All sums which shall be received by the State from the United States Government under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890 entitled "An Act to Apply a Portion of the Public Lands to the more Complete Endowment and Support of Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts Established under the Provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," shall be equally divided between South Carolina State College and Clemson University to be applied to the purposes specified in such act.
S.C. Code § 59-119-120