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Sec. 6. That on or before the first day of July in each year after the passage of 

 this act the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of 

 the Treasury as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual 

 approj^riation for cooperative agricultural extension work under this act, and the 

 amount which it is entitled to receive. If the Secretary of Agriculture shall with- 

 hold a certificate froni any State of its appropriation, the facts and reasons therefor 

 shall ))e reported to the President, and the amount involved shall he kept separate 

 in the Treasury until the expiration of the Congress next succeeding a session of the 

 legislature of any State from which a certificate has been withheld, in order that the 

 State may, if it should so desire, appeal to Confress from the determination of the 

 Secretary of Agricultiu-e. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, 

 it shall be covered into the Treasiu-y. 



Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report to Congress 

 of the receipts, expenditures, and results of the cooperative agricultural extension 

 work in all of the States receiving the benefits of this act, and also whether the appro- 

 priation of any State has been withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor. 



Sec 8. That Congress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal any or all of the 

 provisions of this act. 



Approved, May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 372). 



FRANKING PRIVILEGE. 



PROVISION OF ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1915. 



All correspondence, bulletins, and reports for the furtherance of the purposes of the 

 act approved May eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An act to pro- 

 Adde for cooperative agiicultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in 

 the several States receiving the benefits of an act of Congress approved July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the acts supplementary thereto, and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture," jnay be transmitted in the mails of the United 

 States free of charge tor postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General, 

 from time to time, may prescribe, by such college ofiicer or other person connected 

 with the extension department of such college as the Secretary of Agriculture may 

 designate to the Postmaster General (38 Stat. L., 415, 438). 



In a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture, dated April 28, 1915, 

 the Postmaster General ruled that the above proviso ''is regarded 

 as permanent legislation." 



ORDER (no. 8547) OP THE POSTMASTER GENERAL REGARDING THE FRANKING 



PRIVILEGE UNDER THE SMITH-LEVER ACT. 



[Approved Dec. 21, 1914.] 



The Postal Laws and Regulations, edition of 1913, are amended by the addition of 

 the following as section 504 i: 



504^. All correspondence, bulletins, and reports for the furtherance of the purpose 

 of the act approved May 8, 1914 (see paragraph 2 of this section), entitled "An act 

 to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural col- 

 leges in the several States recei^dng the benefits of an act of Congress approved July 2, 

 1862, and the acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of 

 Agriculture," may be transmitted in the mails of the United. States free of charge for 

 postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General from time to time may 

 prescribe, by such college officer or other pereon connected with the extension departs 

 ment of such college as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate to the Postmaster 

 General. (Act of June 30, 1914.) 



