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ACT MARCH 16. 1906, c. 951. An act to provide for an increased annual appro- 

 priation for af:ricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure 

 thereof. (34 Stat. 63.) 



Increased annual appropriations for agricultural experiment stations. 



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 experiment sta- 

 tions now established or which may hereafter be established in ac- 

 cordance with the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of live thousand dollars in addi- 

 tion to the sum named in said Act for the year ending June thirtieth, 

 nineteen hundred and six, and an annual increase of the amount or 

 such appropriation thereafter for five years by an additional sum of 

 two thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount 

 to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be thirty 

 thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses 

 of conducting original researches or experiments bearing directly on 

 the agricultural industry of the United States, having due regard to 

 the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or 

 Territories. 



Act March 16, 1906, c. 951, s. 1, 34 Stat. 63. 



Act March 2, 1887, c. 314, mentioned in this section, is set forth above. 

 Section 5 of that act appropriates $15,000 per annum to each State and 

 Territory for expenses of experiment stations provided for by that act. 



This act is construed, as to amounts thereby appropriated for each 

 fiscal year to and including the year ending June 30, 1911, and the time 

 of payment thereof, by provisions of act June 30, 1900, c. 3913, set forth 

 below. 



Time, manner, etc., of annual payments to States and Territories; grants of 

 money subject to legislative assent or assent of governor. 



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

 tories for the further endowment and support of agricultural experi- 

 ment stations shall be annually paid in equal quarterly payments on 

 the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year by 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the treasurer 

 or other officer duly appointed % the governing boards of said experi- 

 ment stations to receive the same, and such officers shall be required 

 to report to the Secretary of Agriculture on or before the first day of 

 September of each year a detailed statement of the amount so received 

 and of its disbursement, on schedules prescribed by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture. The grants of money authorized by this Act are made 

 subject to legislative assent of the several States and Territories to 

 the purpose of said grants : Provided^ That payment of such install- 

 ments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any 

 State or Territory before the adjournment of the regular session of 

 legislature meeting next after the passage of this Act shall be made 

 upon the assent or the goveraor thereof, duly certified by the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury. 



Act March 16, 1906, c. 951, s. 2, 34 Stat. 63. 



Appropriations for carrying out the provisions of sections 2, 4, and 5 

 of this act, relative to their administration, are made in the agricultural 



