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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, regard- 

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

 relation to its receipts and expenditures, its library, the number of its students and 

 professors, and als( as to any improvements and experiments made under the direc- 

 tion of any experiment stations attached to said colleges, "svith their costs 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 thai the State or Territory 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 

 disbursements which have been made in all the States and Territories, and also 

 •whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been withheld, and if so, 

 the reasons therefor. 



Sec. 6. Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or all of the pro- 

 visions of this act. 



Approved, August 30, 1890. 



