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Sect. 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. 



Sect. 8. That, in states having colleges entitled mider this section to 

 the benefits of this act, and having also agricultm-al experiment stations 

 established by law separate from said colleges, such states shall be 

 authorized to apj^ly such benefits to experiments at stations so estab- 

 lished by such states ; and in case any state shall have established, 

 under the provisions of said act of July 2 aforesaid, an agricultural 

 dei^artment or exj^erimental station in connection with any university, 

 college, or institution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, 

 and such state shall have established or shall hereafter establish a sepa- 

 rate agricultural college or school, which shall have connected there- 

 with an experimental farm or station, the legislature of such state may 

 ajiply in whole or in part the apiaropriation by this act made, to such 

 sei^arate agricultural college or school ; and no legislature shall, by con- 

 tract, exjiress or implied, disable itself from so doing. 



Sect. 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 payments of such instal- 

 ments of the appropriation herein made as shall becSme due to any 

 state before the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature 

 meeting next after the jjassage of this act shall be made upon the assent 

 of the governor thereof duly certified to the secretary of the treasury. 



Sect. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding 

 the United States to continiie any payments from the treasury to any or 

 all the states or institutions mentioned in this act ; but Congress may at 

 any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all of the provisions of this 

 act. 



The General Court, chapter 212 of the Acts and Kesolves 

 of 1887, accepted this grant for the State of Massachusetts 

 in the following terms : — 



An Act to accept an annual appropriation of money by the Congress of the United 

 States for the support of Agricultural Experiments within the Commonwealth. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows : — 



Section 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby assents to 

 and accepts a grant of moneys to be annually made by the United States, 

 as set forth and defined in an act of congi'ess, entitled an " Act to estab- 

 lish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges 

 established in the several states, under the provisions of an act approved 

 July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supple- 

 mentary thereto," — said act, designated Public No. 112, being passed at 

 the second session of the forty-ninth congress, and approved March 

 second, eighteen hvmdred and eighty-seven, — and ujjon the terms and 

 conditions contained and set forth in said act of congress. 



