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two parts, and paid accordingly, and thereupon 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 foregoing provisions shall be taken as a com- 

 pliance with the provisions 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 

 warrant 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 

 trustees 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 any 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 by 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 

 subsequent 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 

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

 or 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, 

 regarding the condition and progress of each college, including statistical informa- 

 tion in relation to its receipts and expenditures, its library, the number of its stu- 

 dents and professors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made under 

 the direction of any experiment stations attached to said colleges, with their cost 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 fur- 

 ther 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 that 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 dis- 



