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Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this sec- 

 tion to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural ex- 

 periment stations established by law separate from said col- 

 leges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to 

 experiments at stations so established by such States; and in 

 €ase any State shall have established under the provisions of 

 said act of July second aforesaid, an agricultural department 

 or experimental station, in connection with any university, col- 

 lege, or institution not distinctively an agricultural college or 

 school, and such State shall have established or shall hereafter 

 establish a separate agricultural college or school, which shall 

 have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the 

 Legislature of such State may apply in whole or in part the 

 appropriation by this act made to such separate agricultural 

 college or school, and no Legislature shall by contract express 

 or implied disable itself from so doing. 



Sec. 9. That the grants of monevs authorized bv this act are 

 made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and 

 Territories to the purposes of said grants: Provided, That pay- 

 ment of such installments of the appropriation herein made as 

 shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the 

 regular session of its Legislature meeting next after the passage 

 of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof 

 duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as bind- 

 ing the United States to continue any payments from the Treas- 

 ury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this 

 act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal 

 any or all the provisions of this act. 



Approved, March 2, 1887. 



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