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Issued Octob<>r 24, 1916. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 

 A. C. TRUE, Director. 



FEDERAL LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, AND RUL- 

 INGS AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



[Revised to August 15, 1916.] 



CONTENTS. 



I'age. 



Agricultural colleges 1 



First Morrill Act 1 



Amendment of the first Morrill Act 3 



Second Morrill Act 4 



Nelson amendment 6 



Detail of Army officers and sale of sup- 

 plies by War Department 6 



Graduates of~ land-grant colleges and 



military service 11 



Land-grant colleges designated deposi- 

 tories of public documents 8 



Rulings of U. S. Bureau of Education. . . 11 



Franking annual reports Df the colleges . 1 13 



Agricultural experiment stations 13 



Hatch Act 13 



Amendment of Hatch Act 15 



Soil work under Hatch Act 15 



Adams Act 15 



Interpretation of Adams Act 17 



Page. 



Agricultural experiment stations— Continued. 



Appropriations 17 



Cooperation with the department 18 



Franking station publications 18 



Rulings of the Treasury Department 20 



Rulings of the Department of Agriculture 23 



Classification of accounts 27 



Station accounting 28 



Administration of Hatch and Adams 



funds 28 



Cooperative extension work 29 



Smith- Lever Act 29 



Franking privilege 31 



Funds available under the Smith-Lever 



Act 36 



Instructions for extension accounting. . . 37 



States Relations Service 42 



Organization 42 



Work 42 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



ACT OF 1862 DONATING LANDS FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



[First Morrill Act.] 



.\N ACT Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the 

 benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



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

 m Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes 

 iiereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a 

 (quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representati\e in 

 Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under 

 the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be 

 selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, 

 shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not 

 less than one-quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State 

 subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quan- 

 tity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the 



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