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bursements 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. 



Extracts from an Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Agri- 

 culture for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1901. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations: To carry into effect the provisions of an 

 act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to 

 establish 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 supplementary thereto," and to enforce the 

 execution thereof, seven hundred and eighty thousand dollars, thiHy-three thousand 

 dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 to enable him to carry out the provisions of section three of said act of March second, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and twelve thousand dollars of which sum may 

 be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report to Congress 

 upon the agricultural resources and capabilities of Alaska; and to establish and main- 

 tain agricultural experiment stations in said Territory, including the erection of 

 buildings and all other expenses essential to the maintenance of such stations, of 

 which sum five thousand dollars shall be immediately available; and the Secretary 

 of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by 

 section three of said act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; shall 

 ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in 

 accordance with the provisions of the said act, and shall make report thereon to 

 Congress; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ such 

 assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary, in the city of Wash- 

 ington and elsewhere, and to incur such other expenses for office fixtures and sup- 

 plies, stationery, traveling, freight, and express charges, illustration of the Experi- 

 ment Station Record, bulletins, and reports as he may find essential in carrying out 

 the objects of the above acts, and the sums apportioned to the several States shall 

 be paid quarterly in advance. 



And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to furnish to such institu- 

 tions or individuals as may care to buy them, copies of the card index of agricultural 

 literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations, and charge for the same a 

 price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, and 

 he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of the 

 preparation of the index. 



And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to expend ten thousand 

 dollars of which sum to establish and maintain an agricultural station in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, including the erection of buildings, the printing (in the Hawaiian Islands), 

 illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins, and all other expenses essential 

 to the maintenance of said station, which sum shall be immediately available. 



And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to expend five thousand 

 dollars of which sum to investigate and report to Congress on the agricultural 

 resources and capabilities of Porto Rico, with special reference to the selection of 

 locations for agricultural experiment stations, and the determination of the character 

 and extent of agricultural experiments immediately demanded by the condition of 

 agriculture in that island, and to prepare, print, publish, and distribute in Porto Rico 

 circulars of inquiry and bulletins of information in the English and Spanish lan- 

 guages, which sum shall be immediately available; in all, seven hundred and eighty 

 thousand dollars. * * * 



