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This establishes federal control over the methods of ex- 

 pending the money appropriated by Congress. The Act re- 

 quires the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain whether or 

 not each state and territory is complying with all the pro- 

 visions of the federal statute, and to certify his findings 

 to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall pay or with- 

 hold the money appropriated according as these provisions 

 have or have not been complied with. 



The further endowment of the agricultural colleges pro- 

 vided for in the Act of 1890 consisted of an appropriation 

 of $15,000 to be paid to each state and territory for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and an annual increase of 

 the appropriation to each college by $1,000 for ten years. 

 After that each college was to get $25,000. This sum was 

 to be paid out of funds arising out of the sale of public 

 lands. 



In the appropriations made for the Department of Agri- 

 culture for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1908, the appro- 

 priation to each college was to increase annually $5,000 

 until the total sum appropriated to each college would be 

 $50,000. This sum, according to the provisions of the Act, 

 can be paid out of any money in the treasury. The federal 

 aid given to the land-grant colleges consists, therefore, of 

 the interest accruing from the original fund established 

 through the apportionment of land among the states and of 

 subsequent annual appropriations to each college. The ap- 

 propriations now amount to $50,000 a year. The colleges 

 have also received liberal aid from the states and from 

 private sources. 



THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



Under authority of the Hatch Act of 1887, agricultural 

 experiment stations were established as departments in the 

 land-grant colleges. Section 2 of this act describes the ob- 

 ject of the experiment station to be as follows : 



