16 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Sec. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses 

 of conducting investigations and experiments and printing and 

 distributing the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of 

 fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each 

 State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropria- 

 tions from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under 

 the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in 

 the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid 

 in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, 

 July, and October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer 

 duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges to re- 

 ceive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day 

 of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided, how- 

 ever, That out of the first annual appropriation so received by 

 any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended 

 in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or build- 

 ings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and 

 thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such 

 annual appropriation may be so expended. 



Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures 

 of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual 

 appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be de- 

 ducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such 

 station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any 

 station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily 

 required for its maintenance and support. 



Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be constructed to impair 

 or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said col- 

 leges and the government of the States or Territories in which 

 they are respectively located. 



