234 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



SECTION 6 — AUGUST 2, 1888. • 



The fiscal year commences on the 1st day of July, corresponding with the fiscal 

 year of the Government. 



An agricultural station entitled to the benefits of said appropriations made by 

 Congress can anticipate the payment to be made July 1, and make contracts of pur- 

 chases prior to that time, if it shall be necessary to carry on the work of the station. 

 Of course, no portion of said appropriations paid in quarterly installments can 

 drawn from the Treasury unless needed for the purposes indicated in the act; and so 

 much of what is so drawn as may not have been expended within the year must be 

 accounted for as part of the appropriation for the following year. 



SECTION 8 — JANUARY 30, 1888. 



The State of New York ought to designate whether to the college or to the station, 

 or to both, it desires the appropriation to be applied. The eighth section of the act 

 seems to authorize the State to apply such benefits to experimental stations it may 

 have established as it desires. 



Where there are no experimental stations connected with the colleges, the legis- 

 latures of such States must connect the agricultural experiment station with the col- 

 leges already established under the act of July 2, 1862; there is no authority in the 

 act authorizing the establishment of agricultural experiment stations independent of 

 said colleges. 



The act contemplates that where stations have already been established discon- 

 nected from the colleges, the legislatures of such States may make such provisions in 

 regard thereto as they may deem proper; but it does not authorize the establishment 

 of stations except in connection with the colleges that were at that time or might 

 thereafter be established under the act of July 2, 1862. 



SECTION 8 — FEBRUARY 14, 1888. 



Where there is an agricultural college or station which may have been established 

 by State authority, and is maintained by the State, the eighth section of the above 

 act would authorize the State to designate the station to which it desired the appro- 

 priation to be applied, w r hether to one or more, or all, and the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury should make the payment under the appropriation to whichever one the State 

 might designate. 



SECTIONS 1 AND 8 — FEBRUARY 15, 1888. 



(1) When an agricultural college or station has been established under the act of 

 July 2, 1862, each college is entitled to the benefits of the provisions of said act (i. e., 

 of March 2, 1887). 



(2) In a State where an agricultural college has been established under the act of 

 July 2, 1862, and agricultural stations have also been established, either under the 

 act of July 2, 1862, or by State authority, before March 2, 1887, the legislature of 

 such State shall determine which one of said institutions, or how many of them, 

 shall receive the benefits of the act of March 2, 1887. 



(3) If the legislature of any State in which an agricultural college has been estab- 

 lished under the act of July 2, 1862, desires to establish an agricultural station 

 which shall be entitled to the benefits of said act, it must establish such station in 

 connection with said college. 



PROVISO TO SECTIONS 1 AND 8 — DECEMBER 7, 1888. 



It is within the power of the legislature of any State that has accepted the pro- 

 visions of said act of March 2, 1887, to dispose of the amount appropriated by Con- 

 gress for said station to either one or all of the agricultural colleges or stations which 

 may have been established in said State by virtue of either of the provisions of the 

 act of July 2, 1862, or the provisions of said eighth section of the act of March 

 .\ 1887. 



