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may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the State agri- 

 cultural college or collef:o8 recoiWng the benefits of this act. 



Sec. 3. That for the purpose of paying the e.xpensos of said cooperative agricultural 

 extension work and the necessarj-- printing and distributing of information in con- 

 nection with the same, there is ])emianently appropriated, out of any money in the 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $480,000 for each year. $10,000 of 

 which shall be paid annually, in the manner hereinafter provided, to each State 

 which shall by action of its legislature assent to the provisions of this act: Provided, 

 That payment of such installments of the appropriation hereinbefore made as shall 

 become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of the legisla- 

 ture meeting next after the passage of this act may. in the absence of prior legislative 

 assent, be made ujwn the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secre- 

 tarj' of the Treasury: Provided further. That there is also appropriated an additional 

 sum of $000,000 for the fiscal year following that in which the foregoing appropriation 

 first becomes available, and for each year thereafter for seven years a sum exceeding 

 by $500,000 the sum appropriated for each preceding year, and for each year thereafter 

 there is permanently appropriated for each year the sum of $4,100,000 in addition 

 to the sum of $480,000 hereinbefore provided: Provided further , That before the funds 

 herein appropriated shall become available to any college for any fiscal year plans 

 for the work to be carried on under this act shall be submitted by the proper officials 

 of each college and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. Such additional sums 

 shall be iised only for the purposes hereinbefore stated, and shall be allotted annually 

 to each State by the Secretary of Agriculture and paid in the manner hereinbefore 

 provided, in the proportion which the rural population of each State bears to the total 

 rural jjopulation of all the States as determined by the next preceding Federal census: 

 Provided further , That no payment out df the additional appropriations herein pro- 

 vided shall be made in any year to any State until an equal sum has been appropri- 

 ated for that year by the legislature of such State, or provided by State, county, col- 

 lege, local authority, or individual contributions from witliin the State, for the miin- 

 tenance of the cooperative agricultural extension work pro\'ided for in this act. 



Skc. 4. That the sums hereby appropriated for extension work shall be paid in equal 

 semiannual payments on the first day of January and July of each year by the Secretary 

 of the Treasury upon the warrant of the Secretary of Agriculture, out of the Treasurj' 

 of the United States, to the treasurer or other officer of the State duly authorized by 

 the laws of the State to receive the same; and such officer shall be required to report 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, on or before the first day of September of each year, 

 a detailed statement of the amount so received during the preWous li.scal year, and of 

 its di,sbursement, on forms prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Sec. 5. That if any portion of the moneys receivetl by the designated officer of 

 any Stato for the sup])ort and maintenance of cooperative agricultural extension 

 work, as jjrovidtnl in this act, shall by any action or contingency bo dimini.-fhed or 

 lost or bo ml-applitd, it shall bo replaced by said State to which it belongs, and until 

 so replaced no subsequent ajjpropriation shall bo a]>portioncd or paid to said State, 

 and no portion of said moneys shall bo ai)plied, directly or indirectly, to the pur- 

 chase, ercK-'tion, preservation, or repair of any buiUling or l)uildings, or tflo j^urchase 

 or rental of land, or in collego-cour.se teaching, lectures in colleges, promoting agri- 

 cultural trains, or any other ])urpose not Hju'cilied in this act, and not more than five 

 per centum of each anntial aj)j)n)j)riati()n shall be a]>plie(l to the printing and dis- 

 tribntion ol ])ulilication.M. It shall bo the duty of each of said colleges annunlly, on 

 or ln'fori' the lirst day of January, to make to tho governor of the State in which it is 

 located a full ami detailed rejxjrt of it.n operations in the directioti of extension work 

 aa dclined iti thi.s act, including a <l<<taile<l statement of reccijtts and exj)en<liturea 

 from all H<iurceH for this purposti, a copy of which report shall 1k> sent to tho Secretary 

 of Agriculture and to tho Secretary of the Treasury of tho United States. 



