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have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legis- 

 lature of such State may appl}^ in whole or in part the appropriation 

 by this act made to such separate agricultural college, or school, and 

 no legislature shall by contract express or implied disable itself from 

 so domg. 



Act March 2. 1887, c. 314, s. 8, 24 Stat. 441. 

 Grants of moneys subject to legislative assent of States and Territories. 



Sec. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made 

 subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories 

 to the purposes of said grants: Provided^ That payment of such in- 

 stalments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to 

 any State before the adjournment of the regular session of its legis- 

 lature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon 

 the assent of the governor thereof duly certified to the Secretary of 

 the Treasury. 



Act March 2, 18S7, c. 314, s. 9, 24 Stat. 442. 



Provisions authorizing the governor of the State or Territory to make 

 assent as to such installments of appropriations as may be due or become 

 due when the legislature is not in session, are contained in act June 7, 

 1888, c. 373, and act March 16, 1906, c. 951, s. 2, set forth below. 



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



Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding 

 the United States to continue any payments from the Treasury to 

 any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Con- 

 gress may at any time amend suspend or repeal any or all the pro- 

 visions of this act. 



Act March 2, 1887, c. 314, s. 10, 24 Stat. 442. 



ACT JUNE 7, 1888, c. 373. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish 

 agricultural stations in connection with the colleges establi.shed in tiie sev- 

 eral States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto." (25 Stat. 

 176.) 



Assent of Governor to grant of money to State or Territory for experiment 

 stations. 



That the grant of money authorized by the act of Congress entitled 

 "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection 

 with the colleges established in the several States under the pro- 

 visions of an act approved July second eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two, and of acts supplementary thereto,-' are subject as therein pro- 

 vided to the legislative assent of the States or Territories to be 

 affected thereby; but as to such installments of the appropriations 

 as may be now due or may hereafter become due, when the legisla- 

 ture may not be in session, the governor of said State or Territory 

 may make the assent therein provided, and upon a duly certified 

 copy thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury he shall cause the same 

 to be paid in the manner provided in the act of which this is amenda- 

 tory, until the termination of the next regular session of the legis- 

 lature of such State or Territory. 



Act June 7, 18.88, c. 373. 1T^ Stat. 176. 



Act March 2, 1887, c. 314. s. 9, mentioned and amended by this act, is 

 set fcu'th on above. 



