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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 installments of tlie appropriation herein made as 

 shall become due to any State before the adjournment 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 (24 Stat. L., 440). 



ACT OF 1888 AMENDING (HATCH) ACT OF 1887. 



AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to establish agricultural stations in connection with the col- 

 leges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteenhun- 

 dred and sixty-two, and the acts supplementary thereto." 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the grant of money authorized by the act of Congress 

 entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the 

 colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act appro A'ed July 

 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of acts supplementary thereto, " are 

 subject as therein provided to the legislative assent of the States or Territories to be 

 affected thereby; but as to such installments of the appropriations as may be now 

 due or may hereafter become due, when the legislatme may not be in session, the gov- 

 ernor of said State or Territory may make the assent therein provided, and upon a duly 

 certified cojjy thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury he shall cause the same to be 

 paid in the manner provided in the act of which this is amendatory, until the termina- 

 tion of the next regular session of the legislature of such State or Territory. 



Approved, June 7, 1888 (25 Stat. L., 176). 



PROVISO IN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES 

 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 

 JUNE 30, 1890, FURTHER DEFINING WORK OF STATIONS ESTABLISHED 

 UNDER ACT OF MARCH 2, 1887 (HATCH ACT). 



That, as far as practicable, all such stations shall devote a portion of their work to 

 the examination and classification of soils of their respective States and Territories, 

 with a view to securing more extended knowledge and better development of their 

 agricultural capabilities. 



Approved, March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 841). 



ACT OF 1906 FOR THE FURTHER ENDOWMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



[Adams Act.] 



AN ACT To provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regu- 

 lating the expenditure thereof. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and Ilouse of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out 

 of any money in the Treasury not otherAvise appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter 

 provided, to each State and Territory, for the more complete endowment and 



