258 KKI'oKT 01-" OFFICE OF KXI'KKIMKNT STATIONS. 



e.«tal>li.''lio(l, niuU'i- llic ]ii(ivisi<>iis of f^aiii art nf July second al"oresai<l, an a>iriciiltural 

 ilcpartiiu'iit or cxiicrimciital station in coiuicction with any miixcrsity, collc^'c, or 

 institution not distinctly an a^rirultural rolU'^rc or school, and such State shall have 

 fstaltlishi'd or shall hereafter estaMish a separate afiricultural coUcfrc or Hcliool, 

 which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legisla- 

 ture of such State may ajiply in whole or in j)art the appropriation by this act made 

 to such separate aj;ricultural colle;^e or school, and no legislature shall by contract, 

 expreas or implied, disable itself from so doing. 



SKe. 9. That the grant.s of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the 

 legislative assent of the s«'veral States and Territories to tlie pm-poses of said grants: 

 I'mriiltij, That j)ayment of such installments of the appropriation herein madi' as 

 shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of its 

 legislature meeting next after the ]>assage of this act shall lie made ui)on the assent 

 of the governor thereof duly certilied to the Secretary of the Treasury. 



StX". 10. Nothing in this act shall l)e held or construed as })inding the United States 

 to continue any paymt-nts from the Treasury to any or all tiie States or institutions 

 mentioiu'd in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any 

 or all till' provisions of this act. 



Approved, March 2, 1887. 



Act of 18H0 kok the Fuktiikk Endowment of AcinicrLTunAL Colleges. 



AN ACT to apply a i)ort ion of tlic proceeds of the public lands to tlic more complete endowment 

 and snpi)ort of the colleges for the benelit of aKrieulture and the meelianie arts established under 

 the jirovisions of an act of Congress approved July second, citrhtren hundred and sixty-two. 



Be it emictexl by the Senate and ILntse of Ri-jnrnenlativen uf tJie Ignited States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That there shall V>e, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of 

 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of public 

 lands, to be i)aid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more 

 complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and 

 the mechanic arts now establislied, or which may lie hereafter established, in accord- 

 ance with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 

 the sum of iifteeu thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appro])riation there- 

 after for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand doUars over tiie jjreceding 

 year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall 

 be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the 

 mechanic arts, the English language, an<l the various ])ranches of mathemalical, 

 pliysical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their ap])lications 

 in the industries of life and to the facilities for such instruction: Provided, That no 

 money shall be paid out under this act to any State or Territory for the support and 

 maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in the admis- 

 sion of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such college sejiarately 

 for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance -with the provisions 

 of this a(;t if the funds received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as 

 hereinafter set forth: Provided, That in any State in which there has l)een one col- 

 lege esta1)lished in i)ursuance of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and si.vty- 

 two, and also in which an e<lucational institution of like character has been estab- 

 lished, or maj' be hereafter established, and is now aided by such State from its own 

 revenue, for the education of colored studi'uts in agriculture and the mei-hanic arts, 

 however named or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore under 

 the act to which this act is an amendment, the legislature of such State may propose 

 and report to the Secretary of the Interior a just and equitable division of the fund 

 to be received under this act, between one college for white students and one insti- 

 tution for colored students, established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into 



