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separately for white and colored students shall be held to be 

 a compliance with the provisions of this act if the funds re- 

 ceived in such State or Territory be equitably divided as here- 

 inafter set forth : Provided, That in any State in which there 

 has been one college established in pursuance of the act of 

 July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also in which 

 an educational institution of like character has been established, 

 or may be hereafter established, and is now aided by such 

 State from its own revenue, for the education of colored stu- 

 dents in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however named 

 or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore 

 under the act to which this act is an amendment, the Legis- 

 lature of such State may propose and report to the Secretary 

 of the Interior a just and equitable division of the fund to be 

 received under this act between one college for white students 

 and one institution for colored students established as afore- 

 said, which shall be divided into two parts and paid accord- 

 ingly, and thereupon such institution for colored students 

 shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and subject to its 

 provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been in- 

 cluded under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and 

 the fulfillment of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a 

 compliance with the provision in reference to separate colleges 

 for white and colored students. 



"Sec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States 

 and Territories for the further endowment and support of col- 

 leges shall be annually paid on or before the thirty-first day 

 of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon 

 the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treas- 

 ury of the United States, to the State or Territorial treasurer, 

 or to such officer as shall be designated by 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 treas- 

 urers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled 

 to receive the same, and such treasurers shall be required to 

 report to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of 

 the Interior, on or before the first da}^ of September of each 

 year, a detailed statement of the amount so received and of its 

 disbursement. The grants of moneys authorized by this act 

 are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States 



