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tributiiig- the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of fifteen 

 thousanil tlolhirs per annum is hereb}- appropriated to each State, to 

 be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from 

 year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of 

 section eight of this act. out of any money in the Treasury proceed- 

 ing from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly pay- 

 ments, on the first day of Januarv, April, July, and October in each 

 year, to the treasurer or other ofhcer duly appointed by the govern- 

 ing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to 

 be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 seven: Provided^ lioicevei\ That out of the first annual appropriation 

 so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be 

 expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or 

 buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and 

 thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual 

 appropriation ma}^ be so expended. 



Act March 2, 1887, c. 314, s. 5, 24 Stat. 441. 



The sums apportioned to the several States and Territories are required 

 to bo paid quarterly in advance, by provisions of the agricultural appro- 

 priation acts for the fiscal year 1902 and thereafter. The provision of the 

 act for the fiscal year 1913 is set forth on p. 254, i^ost. 



The sum named in this section is increased and a further annual 

 increase for five years is provided for. the annual amount to be paid to 

 each State and Territory being $30,000, by act March 16, 1906, c. 951, 

 set forth on p. 249, post. 



"Unexpended appropriations. 



Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures 

 of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appro- 

 priation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from 

 the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order 

 that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not 

 exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its main- 

 tenance and support. 



Act March 2, 1887, c. 314, s. 6, 24 Stat. 441. 



Relation of agricultural colleges to State or Territorial governments not affected 

 by act. 



Sec, 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or 

 modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges 

 and the government of the States or Territories in which they are 

 respectively located. 



Act March 2, 1887, c. 314. s. 7, 24 Stat. 441. 



Application of act in States having experiment stations separate from agricul- 

 tural colleges. 



Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section 

 to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment 

 .stations established by law separate from said colleges, such States 

 shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations 

 so estal)lished by such States; and in case any State shall have estab- 

 lished under the provisions of said act of July second aforesaid, an 

 agricultural department or experimental station, in connection with 

 any university, college, or institution not distinctively an agricultural 

 college or school, and such State shall have established or shall here- 

 after establish a separate agricultural college or school, which shall 



