OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 243 



Diminution of fund to be restored to State, etc.; fund not to be applied to 

 buildings; reports of condition and progress of colleges, and as to experi- 

 ment stations. 



Skc. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the desig- 

 nated officer of the State or Territory for the further and more com- 

 plete endowment, support, and maintenance of colleges, or of insti- 

 tutions f(n- 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 api)ropriation 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 Sec- 

 retary of the Interior, regarding^ the condition and progress of each 

 college, including statistical information in relation to its receipts 

 and expenditures, its library, the number of its students and pro- 

 fessors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made 

 under the direction of any experiment stations attached to said col- 

 leges, with their cost and results, and such other industrial and eco- 

 nomical statistics as may be regarded as useful, one copy of which 

 shall be transmitted by mail free to all other colleges further en- 

 dowed under this act. 



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



Annual ascertainment and certification of amounts due States, etc.; certificates 

 of appropriations withheld; appeals to Congress. 



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 Ter- 

 ritory whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appro- 

 priation for colleges, or of institutions for colored students, under 

 this act, and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respec- 

 tively, to receive. If the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a 

 certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation the facts 

 and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, 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 admin- 

 istration of this law. 



Act August 30. 1890. o. 841, s. 4, 20 Stat. 419. 

 Annual reports to Congress of disbursements and of withholding appropriations. 



Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to 

 Congress the disbursements' which have been made in all the States 

 and Territories, and also Avhether the appropriation of any State or 

 Territory has been withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor. 

 Aft August 30, 1890, c. 841, .s. .'j, 26 Stat. 419. 



