244 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Reservation of power to amend, etc., or repeal act. 



Sec. G. Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or 

 all of the provisions of this act. 



Act August 30, 1890, c. 841, s. 6, 26 Stat. 419. 



Provision.s for tlie selection of lands for agricultural college purposes 

 are contained in act April 2, 1884, c. 20, 23 Stat. 10. 



Provisions for the selection of lands for agricultural college purposes 

 by the State of Mississippi are contained in act February 20, 1895. c. 

 106, 28 Stat. 673. 



Receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States 

 and Territories are appropriated to a "reclamation fund" by act June 

 17, 1902, c. 1093, s. 1, 32 Stat. 388, and by a proviso annexed to said sec- 

 tion, in case the receipts from the sale and disposal of other public lands 

 are insuOicient to meet the requirements for the support of agricultural 

 colleges under this act, the sum necessary is to be provided from any 

 moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.) 

 Increased annual appropriation for agricultural colleges. 



That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of 

 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as 

 hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more com- 

 plete endowment and maintenance of agricultural colleges now estab- 

 lished, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the 

 Act of Congress approved July vsecond, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two, and the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to 

 the sums named in the said Act, for the fiscal year ending June thir- 

 tieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and an annual increase of the 

 amount of such appropriation thereafter for four years by an addi- 

 tional sum of five thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the 

 annual sum to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be 

 fifty thousand dollars, to be applied only for the purposes of the agri- 

 cultural colleges as defined and limited in the Act of Congress ap- 

 proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Act of 

 Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. 



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



That the sum hereby appropriated to the States and Territorie.- 

 for the further endowment and support of the colleges shall be paid 

 by, to, and in the manner prescribed by the Act of Congress approved 

 Xiigust thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to 

 apply a portion of the jiroceeds of the public lands to the more com- 

 plete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agri- 

 culture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of the 

 Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two," and the expenditure of the said money shall be governed in all 

 respects by the provisions of the said Act of Congi;ess approved July 

 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the said Act of Congress 

 approvpd August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety: Providcfh 

 That said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing 

 courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the 

 elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1281. 



These are provisions of the jigricultiiral aiipropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1908. cited above. 



