THE ADAMS ACT. 61 



The opinion of the Comptroller upon the points raised by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury is as follows : 



April 7, 1906. 

 The honorable the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sir : In your communication of March 27, 1906, you request an expression of 

 my views upon the questions which you therein present as follows : 



I have to invite your attention to "An act to provide for an increased annual 

 appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expendi- 

 ture thereof," approved March 16, 1906, copy inclosed ; and in connection there- 

 with to "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories 

 which mav provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," 

 approved July 2, 1862 (12 Stat., p. .503) ; and to "An act to establish agricultural 

 experiment stations in connection with colleges established in the several States 

 under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of the acts supple- 

 mentary thereto," approved March 2, 1887 (2-1 Stat, p. 440). 



Relative to the provisions of the act of March 16, 1900, the views of the 

 Comptroller are requested as follows : 



1. The annual appropriation for experiment stations having already been 

 made for the fiscal year 1906 in the agricultural act of March .3, 190.5 (.33 Stat., 

 p. 881), including appropriations for Alaska. Hawaii, and Porto Rico, does the 

 first annual increase of .$5,000 for each State and Territory become available for 

 the fiscal year 1906, with yearly increase thereafter, as provided in the act, up^ 

 to the maximum of $.30,000; and does said act of March 16. 1906, provide for a 

 specific annual appropriation from the Treasury for the full sums to be paid 

 each State and Territory? 



2. As Alaska. Hawaii, and Porto Rico appear not to have established col- 

 leges for agriculture and the mechanic arts in accordance with the act of July 

 2, 1862, yet have established experiment stations under approjiriations made 

 annually for several years in the agricultural appropriation acts, does the act 

 of March 16, 1906, apply to those stations? 



The bill reads : 



That there shall be. and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter provided, 

 to each State and Territory, for the more complete endowment and maintenance 

 of agricultural experiment stations now established or which may hereafter be 

 established in accordance with the act of Congress approved :March second, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of five thousand dollars in additiou 

 to the sum named in said act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun- 

 dred and six, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation there- 

 after for five years by an additional sum of two thousand dollars over the pre- 

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

 Territory shall be thirty thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the 

 necessary expenses of conducting original researches or experiments bearing 

 directly on the agricultural industry of the United States, having due regard to 

 the varying conditions and needs of the respective States and Territories. 



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

 the further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall 

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

 July, and October of each year by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the war- 

 rant of the Secretary of Agriculture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to 

 the treasurer or other otticer duly appointed by the governing boards of said 

 experiment stations to receive the same, and such oflicers shall be required to 

 report to the Secretary of Agriculture on or before the first day of September of 

 each year a detailed statement of the amovuit so received and of its disburse- 

 ment, on schedules prepared by the Secretary of Agriculture. The grants of 

 money authorized by this act are made subject to legislative assent of the several 

 States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payment of 

 such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any 

 State or Territory before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature 

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

 governor thereof, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



