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penses of conducting investigations and experiments and 

 printing and distributing as the results as hereinbefore pre- 

 scribed, 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 proceed- 

 ing from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quar- 

 terly payments, on the first day of January, April, July, and 

 October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly 

 appointed by the governing 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, how- 

 ever. That out of the first annual appropriation so received by 

 any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be ex- 

 pended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building 

 or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such sta- 

 tion ; 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 ex- 

 penditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preced- 

 ing annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount 

 shall be deducted from the next succeeding appropriation to 

 such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated 

 to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and neces- 

 sarily 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 separate from said col- 

 leges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits 

 to experiments at stations so established by such States ; and 

 in case any State shall have established under the provisions 

 of said act of July second, aforesaid, an agricultural flepart- 

 tnent or experimental station, in connection with any univer- 

 sity, college, or institution not distinctively an agricultural 



