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in accordance with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and 

 sLsty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appro- 

 priation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over 

 the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and 

 Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction ia 

 agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of 

 mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to 

 their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction: 

 Provided, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any State or Territory 

 for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is 

 made in the admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such 

 colleges separately for white and colored students shall bo held to be a compliance 

 with the provisions of this act if the funds received in such State or Territory be 

 equitably divided as hereinafter sot forth: Provided, That in any State in which 

 there has been one college established in pursuance of the act of July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like 

 character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and is now aided 

 by such State from its own revenue, for the education of colored students in agri- 

 culture and the mechanic arts, however named or styled, or whether or not it has 

 received money heretofore under the act to which this act is an amendment, the 

 legislature of such State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a 

 just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this act between one 

 college for white students and one institution for colored students established as 

 aforesaid, which shall be divided into two parts and paid accordingly, and there- 

 upon such institution for colored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this act 

 and subject to its provisions, 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 fore- 

 going 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 Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon the order of the trus- 

 tees 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 Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first day of Sep- 

 tember of each year, a detailed statement of the amount so received and of its dis- 

 bursement. 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 anj' State before the adjournment of the regular session of legis- 

 lature 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 diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be 

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

 sequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory; and 

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

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



