276 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT. STATIONS. 



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 adjourn- 

 ment 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 payments from the 

 Treasury to any or all the States or institutions 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. 



EXTRACT FROM AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 

 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR END- 

 ING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY- 

 FIVE. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS : To carry into effect 

 the provisions of an act approved March second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-seven, * * * and to enforce the execution 

 thereof, seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, twenty- 

 five thousand dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the 

 order of the Secretary of Agriculture to enable him to carry 

 out the provisions of section three of said act of March second, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial 

 statement required by section three of the said act of March 

 second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; shall ascertain 



