into two parts, and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for colored stu- 

 dents shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and subject to its pro\isions, as much 

 as it would have been if it had been included under the act of eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-two, and the fulfillment of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a compliance 

 with the provision in reference to separate colleges for white and colored students. 



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

 further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid on or before the 

 thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the war- 

 rant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the 

 State or Territorial treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by the laws of 

 such State or Tenitory to receive the same, who shall upon the order of the trustees 

 of the college or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over said sums 

 to the treasurers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive 

 the same, and such treasurers shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture and to the Secretary of the Interior on or before the first day of September of 

 each year a detailed statement of the amovmt so received and of its disbursement. 

 The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent 

 of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That 

 payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due 

 to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of 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. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of the 

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

 tenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored students, as provided in this act, 

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

 be replaced by the State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no 

 subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Terri|ory; 

 and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any 

 pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building 

 or buildings. An annual report by the president of each of said colleges shall be made 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as to the Secretary of the Interior, regarding 

 the condition and progress of each college, including statistical information in rela- 

 tion to its receipts and expenditures, its library, the number of its students and pro- 

 fessors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made under the direction 

 of any experiment stations attached to said colleges, with their cost and results and 

 such other industrial and economical statistics as may be regarded as useful, one 

 copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free to all other colleges further endowed 

 under this act. 



Sec. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, after the passage of 

 this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury as to each State and Territory, whether it is entitled to receive its share 

 of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of institutions for colored students, under 

 this act and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. 

 If the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a certificate from any State or Terri- 

 tory of its appropriation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the Presi- 

 dent, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close 

 of the next Congress, in order that the State or TeiTitory may, if it should so desire, 

 appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of the Interior. If the 

 next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the Treasury. 

 And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with the proper administration 

 of this law. 



Sec 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to Congress the 

 disbiu*sements which have been made in all the States and Territories, and also 



