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

 payments of such instalments of the appropriation herein made 

 as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the 

 regular sessson of 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. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received b}^ the 

 designated ofBcer of the State or Territory for the further and 

 more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of 

 colleges, or of institutions for colored students, as provided 

 in this act, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished 

 or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State or 

 Territory to Avhich it belongs, and until so replaced no subse- 

 quent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State 

 or Territory; and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, 

 directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the 

 purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or 

 buildings. An annual report by the president of each of said 

 colleges shall be made to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well 

 as to the Secretary of the Interior, regarding the condition 

 and progress of each college, including statistical information 

 in relation to its receipts and expenditures, its library, the 

 number of its students and professors, and also as to any im- 

 provements and experiments made under the direction of any 

 experiment stations attached to said colleges, with their costs 

 and results, and such other industrial and economical statis- 

 tics as may be regarded as useful, one copy of which shall be 

 transmitted by mail free to all other colleges further endowed 

 under this act. 



''Sec. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each 

 year, after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Interior 

 shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as 

 to each State and Territory whether it is entitled to receive 

 its share of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of insti- 

 tutions for colored students, under this act, and the amount 

 which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. If 

 the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a certificate from 

 any state or territory of its appropriation the facts and rea- 

 sons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount 

 involved shall be kept separate in the treasury until the close 

 of the next Congress, in order that the state or territory may, 



