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inaintenanre of agricultural experiment stations now established or whioh may 

 hereafter be established in accordanoe with the art oi Consrese approved March 

 second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sura of five thousand dollars in addi- 

 tion to the sum named in said act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 

 and pix, and an annual increase ot the amount of such appropriation thereafter for 

 five years by an additional sum of two thousand dollars over the preceding year, and 

 the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each iState or Territor>' shall be thirty 

 thousand dollars, to be applied only to pa^dng the necessary exi^enses of conducting 

 original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of 

 the United States, having due regard to the varjdng conditions and needs of the 

 respective States or Territories. 



Sec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the 

 further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall be annually 

 paid in equal quarterly payments on the first day of January, April. July, and Octo- 

 ber of each year by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the treasurer or other 

 officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said experiment stations to receive 

 the same, and such officers 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 and of its disbursement, on 8<'hedules prescribed by the Secretan,- of 

 Agriculture. The grants of money authorized by this act are made stibject to \ogii*- 

 lative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Pro- 

 vided, That payment of such installments of the appropriation herein made a.s .shall 

 become due to any State or Territory before the adjournment of the regular session oi 

 legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent 

 of the governor thereof, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sec. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated oflScer of 

 any State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support, 

 and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations as pro\-ided in this act shall 

 by any action or contingency be diminished or lost or be misapplied, it shall be 

 replaced by said State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no- 

 subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory; 

 and no portion of said moneys exceeding five per centunx of each annual ap])r<)- 

 priation shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to 

 the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings, or to 

 the purchase or rental of land. It shall be the duty of each of said stations annually, 

 on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the Sute or Ter- 

 ritory in wl^ich it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including 

 a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which rei)orl shall be sent to 

 each of said stations, to the Secretary of Agriculture, and to the Se<'relary of the 

 Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year after the i)a8Siige of 

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

 the Treasury as to ea<-h State and Territory whether it is complying with the \m>- 

 visions of this act and is entitled to receive its share of the annual ai)propriation 

 for agricultural ex])eriment stations under this a<'t and the ahiount which thereui)on 

 each is entitled, resju'c lively, to receive. If the Secretary of Agriculture shall 

 withhold a certificate -from any Slate or Territory of its appropriation, the facts and 

 reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall 

 be kept st j)arate in the Treasury until the close of the next ("ongri'ss, in order that 

 the State or Territory may, if it shall so desire, ai)peal to Congress from the determina- 

 tion of the Secretary of Agriculture. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum 

 to be paid, it shall be covered into the Treasury; and the Secretary of As'iirulniri! 

 is hereby charged with the proper admiiustrution of this law. 



