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two parts, and j)aid acrordingl}-, and thereupon such institution for colored students 

 shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and su])ject to its provisions, as much 

 as it would have been if it had been includeil under the act of eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-two, and the fullilhnent of the foregoing i)rovisions shall l)e taken as a com- 

 pliance with the provisions in reference to separate colleges for white and colored 

 students. 



8ec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the 

 further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid on or before the 

 thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, uj)on the 

 warrant of the Secretary of tlie Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, 

 to the State or Territorial treasurer, or to such officer as shall l>e designated In' the 

 laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon the order of the 

 trustees of the college, or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over 

 said sums to the treasurers of tlie respective colleges or other institutions entitled to 

 receive tlie same, and such treasurers shall be required to rejiort to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first day of Sep- 

 tember of each year, a detailed statement cf the amount so received and of its dis- 

 bursement. The grants of moneys authorized l)y this act are made subject to the 

 legislative as.«ent of the sevi-nil States and Territories to tlie purpo.se of said grants: 

 Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein .made as 

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

 lature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made ujion the assent of 

 the governor thereof, <luly i-ertilied by the Secretary of tlie Treasury. 



Sec. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of the 

 State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support, and main- 

 tenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored students, as provided in this act, 

 shall, by any action or contingency, Ije diminished or lost, or be misajjplied, it shall 

 be replaced by the State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no 

 sul)se(iuent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory; 

 and no portion of said moneys shall lie applied, directly or indirectly, under any 

 pretense whatever, to the purclia.se, erection, preservation, or repair of any building 

 or buildings. An annual report by the president of each of said colleges shall be 

 made to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as to the Secretary of the Interior, 

 regarding the condition and progress of each college, including statistical informa- 

 tion in n-lation to its receipts and ex])enditures, its library, the number of its stu- 

 dents and professors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made under 

 the direction of any experiment stations attaclied to said colleges, with their cost and 

 results and such other industrial and economical statistics as may be regarded as 

 useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free to all other colleges fur- 

 ther endfiwed under this act. 



Sec. 4. Tiiat on or before the fin^t day of July in each year, after the passage of 

 this act, the Secretary of the Interi(jr shall ascertain and lertify to the Secretary of 

 the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is entitled to receive its share 

 of the annual apprf)priation for colleges, or of institutions for colored student**, under 

 this act, and the amount which thereuixin each is entitlc<l, rcsitectively, to ri'ceive. 

 If the Secretary of the Interior sliall withhold a certificate from any State or Terri- 

 tory of its appropriation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the Presi- 

 dent, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close 

 of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should .«o desire, 

 appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of the Interior. If the 

 next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, it shall be covered into the 

 Treasury. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with the proper 

 administration of this law. 



