242 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



pliance with the provisions of this act if the funds received in sucli 

 State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth: 

 Provided, That in any State in which there has been one college 

 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 established, 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 institution for colored 

 students established ,as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two 

 parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for 

 colored students sliall be entitled to the benefits of this act and sub- 

 ject 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 compli- 

 ance with the provision in reference to separate colleges for white 

 and colored students. 



Act Ausust 30, 1S90. c. 841, s. 1, 26 Stat. 417. 



Act July 2, 1862. c. 130. s. 4, mentioned in this section, is set forth above. 



An annual appropriation for the more complete endowment and m:iiu- 



tenance of agricultural colleges, in addition to the sums named in this 



act, is made, with a further annual increase for five years, the annual 



. sum to be paid thereafter to be $50,000, by provisions of act March 4, 



1907, c. 2iK)7, set forth below. 



Time, manner, etc., of annual payments to States, etc., of sums appropriated. 



Sec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Terri- 

 tories 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, iiumediateh' pay over said sums to the treasurers of 

 the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive the 

 same, and sucli treasurers shall be required to report to the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before 

 the fir.st day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the 

 amount so received and of its disbursement. The grants of moneys 

 authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of 

 tlie several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Pro- 

 rided, That pavmeiit< of sucli installments of the appropriation 

 herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment 

 of the regular session of legi'^lature meeting next after the i>assage 

 of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, 

 duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Act August 30, 1890. c. 841, s. 2, 20 Stat. 418. 



