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

 institution not distinctly an agricultural college or school, and such State shall 

 have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or school, 

 which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legisla- 

 ture of such State may apply in whole or in part 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 institutions 

 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. 



Act op 1890 for the Further Endowment of Agricultural Colleges. 



AN 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 assembled, 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 agriculture and 

 the mechanic arts now established, Nor which may be hereafter established, in accord- 

 ance with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 

 the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation there- 

 after 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 in agriculture, the 

 mechanic arts, the English lauguage, 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 admis- 

 sion of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such college separately 

 for white and colored students shall be 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 set forth: Provided, That in any State in which there has been one col- 

 lege 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 estab- 

 lished, or may be hereafter established, and is now aided by such State from its own 

 revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture 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 insti- 

 tution for colored students, established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into 



