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each State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriationa from year 

 to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this 

 act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lauds, to 

 be paid in equal quarterly payments on the first day of January, April, July, and 

 October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the govern- 

 ing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the 

 first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven : Provided, however, That out 

 of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding 

 one-fifth may bo expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or 

 buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station ; and thereafter an 

 amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so 

 expended. 



Sec. 6. That ■whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the 

 annual statement of receii)t8 and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion 

 of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be 

 deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order 

 that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount 

 actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support. 



Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal 

 relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States 

 or Territories in which they are respectively located. 



Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits 

 of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law sepa- 

 rate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to 

 experiments at stations so established by such States; and in case any State shall 

 have established under the provisions of said act of July second, aforesaid, an agri- 

 cultural department or experimental station, in connection with any university, 

 college, or institution not distinctively au agricultural college or school, and such 

 State shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural col- 

 lege or scliool, which sliall have connected therewith an experimental farm or 

 station, the legislature of such State may apply in whole or in jiart 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 the 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 insti- 

 tutions 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. 



ENDOWMENT OP AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



[Morrill law, August 30, 1890.] 



A.N ACT to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and 



support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the 

 provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 



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

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

 of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of 

 public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the 

 more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agricul- 

 ture and the mechanic arts now established, or which may be hereafter established. 



