270 KKTOKT OF ()FFU"K «)K KXTKUIMKNT STATIONS. 



EXI'IONDITIKRS HY A(i lUClI/rURAL KXI'EKIMKNT STATIONS Kolt MK.MIJKUSII 1 1" IN Ai;Ul- 



Cfl/rrKAl, AND ol'lll'.lt OKdANIZATIoNS. 



Thin Dopartnicnt liolds that iiR'nilKTship fees in associiitioiiH and other orjjaniza- 

 timis are nut a jjroper eharj^e aj^ainst the finnl.s ai)pro])riate(l liy ("()n<rress in aeconl- 

 anee with the act of .Ahireli 2, 1SS7, exeept in the ease of the Assoeiation of Anieriean 

 Ajirieultural Colletros and KxiMjrinient Stations, which is held to l)e an essential part 

 of the system of experiment stations established under sai<l act. 



TllK l!c)Ki;i)WIN(i 5>f MONKY To J'AY TIIK EXPENSES OK AGKICULTI IJA I, KXTKUIMENT 



STATIONS. . 



This [Jepartment holds that experiment station ollieers have no authority to l>orrow 

 money to he repaid out of approin'iations iiiade uncU'r the act of Con;rress of ]\Iarch 

 2, 1SS7, and tiiat charges for interest can not proi)erly be made against funds appro- 



priate<l under tliat act. 



A. C. True, Director. 

 Approvi'd: 



J. Stekling Morton, Secretanj. 

 Washington, D. C, March 10, 1S9G. 



THE USE OF EXPERI.MENT STATION FCNDS KOK C'oLI.KCiK I'URI'OSES. 



This Department holds that no portion of the funds approi)riated by Congress in 

 accordance with the act of March 2, 1887, can legally l»e use<i, either directly or indi- 

 rectly, for paying the salaries or wages of profe^^sors, teachers, or other persons whose 

 duties are coniined to teaching, administration, or other work in connection with the 

 courses of instruction given in the colleges with which the stations are connected or 

 in any other educational institution; nor should any other expenses connected with 

 the work or facilities for instruction in school or college courses be paid from said 

 fund. In case the same jiersons are employed in both the experiment station and 

 the other departments of the college with Avhich the station is connected a fair and 

 equital^le division of salaries or wages should be made, and in case of any other 

 expemlilures for the joint })enefit of the experiment station and the other depart- 

 ments of the college the aforesaid funds should l)e charged with only a fair share of 

 such expenditures. 



Respectfully, A. C. True, Director. 



Approved: 



James Wilson, Secretanj of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C, Gcloter 25, 1897. 



