344 Memorial of George Broiun Goode. 



station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations 

 shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, 

 under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe. 



Sec. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of conducting inves- 

 tigations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as hereinbefore 

 prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to 

 each State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year 

 to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this 

 act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to 

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

 October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the govern- 

 ing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the 

 first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided^ however, That 

 out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceed- 

 ing one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building 

 or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an 

 amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so 

 expended. 



Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the 

 annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion 

 of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be 

 deducted from the next succeeding annvial appropriation to such station, in order that 

 the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually 

 and necessarily required for its maintenance and support. 



Sec 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal 

 relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States 

 or Territories in which they are respectively located. 



Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits 

 of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law sep- 

 arate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to 

 experiments at stations so established by such States; and in case any vState shall 

 have established under the provisions of said act of July second aforesaid, an agri- 

 cultural department or experimental station, in connection with any university, col- 

 lege, or institution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such State 

 shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or 

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

 legislature of such State may apply in whole or in part the appropriation by this 

 act made, to such separate agricultural college or school, and no legislature shall by 

 contract express or implied disable itself from so doing. 



Sec. 9. That the grants of moneys' authorized by this act are made subject to the 

 legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants: 

 Provided, That payment of such instalments of the appropriation herein made as 

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

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

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



Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United 

 States to continue any payment from the Treasury to any or all the States or institu- 

 tions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal 

 any or all the provisions of this act. 



Approved, March 2, 1887. 



' The grants of money to carry out the provisions of this act amounted in 1887-88 

 to |585,cxx), in 1888-89 to 595,000, in 1889-90 to |6oo, 000, and for 1890-91 the amount 

 estimated is $630,000. 



