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m(Mitiiiy thereto, the followinj^ digest has l)ecn prepared for the use 

 of the stations. The sections are those of the act, the dates those of 

 the decisions by the Comptroller: 



SECTION .3 — JANUARY 30, 1888. 



That tin- annual financial statement of the station.*, with vouchers, should not be 

 gent to the Trejisury Department, but that a copy simply of the report that is made 

 to the governor is to be sent to the Secretiiry of the Trea.sury. 



SECTION 3 — ^JANUARY 31, 1888. 



First. That the Trea«ury Department will not require officers of experiment sta- 

 tions to <li) or ))crfurm anything not specifically required by said bill. 



Second. That the Secretiiry of the Treasury is not required to take a bond of the 

 officers of said stations for the money paid over under the provisions of said act. 



Thinl. That no reports will be re({uired from the stations directly to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury; but the governor of the State must send to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury a copy of the report made to him l)y the colleges or stations. 



SECTION 4 — DECEMBER 16, 1895. 



The Solicitor of the Treasury writes: "I am of the opinion that there is no author- 

 ity for an agricultural experiment station to sell its bulletins outside of the State or 

 Territory. Congress appropriates for the publication and free distril)ution of the 

 bulletins, and neither exi)ressly nor by necessary implicaticjii authorizes their .sale." 



SECTION 6 AUGUST 2, 1888. 



The fiscal year commences on the Ist day of July, corresponding with the fiscal 

 year of the (lovernnient. 



An agricultural station entitled to the jjenefits of siud approjtriations matle by 

 Congress can anticipate the jiayment to be made July 1, and make contract.s of pur- 

 cha.ses prior to that time, if it shall be necessary to carry on the work of the station. 

 Of course, no portion of said api)ropriations paid in (juartorly installments can be 

 drawn from the Treasury unless nee< led for the purposes indicated in the act; and 

 so much of what is so drawn as may not have been expende<l within the year must 

 be accounted for as part of the- appropriation for the following year. 



SECTION 8 — JANUARY .'JO, 1888. 



The State of New Y<jrk ought to designate w-hether t<j the college or to the station 

 or to both it desires the ajjpropriation to be applie«l. The eighth section of the act 

 seems to authorize the State to apply such benefits to experimental stations it may 

 have established a.< it desires. 



Where tlu-re are no experimental stations connected with the colleges, the legisla- 

 tures of such States nui.«t connect the agricultural experiment station with the 

 colleges already established under the act of July 2, 1862; there is no authority in 

 the act authorizing the estal)iisliment of agricultural exjjeriment stations independ- 

 ent of said colleges. 



The act contemplates that where stations have already been established discon- 

 nected from the colleges, the legislatures of such States may make such provisions in 

 regard thereto as they mayileem projK'r; but it does not authorize the establishment 

 of stations except in connection with the colleges that were at that time or might 

 thereafter l>e established mider the act of July 2, 1862. 



