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be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the 

 Secretary" of tlie Treasury. 



Sec 3. That if any portion of the moneys received hj the desig- 

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

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

 tutions for 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 Territoiy to wliich it belongs, and until so 

 replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to 

 such State or Territoiy; 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 Secretaiy of Agriculture, as well as to the Secretary of tlie 

 Interior, regardmg the condition and progress of each college, includ- 

 ing statistical information in relation to its receipts and expenditures, 

 its libraiy, the number of its students and professors, and also as to 

 any improvements and experiments made under the direction of any 

 experiment stations attached to said colleges, wdth their costs and 

 results, and such other industrial and economical statistics as may be 

 regarded as useful, one copy of wliich shall be transmitted by mail 

 free to all other colleges further endowed under this act. 



Sec 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, after 

 the passage of this act, the Secretaiy of the Interior shall ascertain 

 and certify to the wSecretar}^ 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 mstitutions for colored students, under 

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

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

 certificate from any State or Territoiy 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 Territoiy 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 Sec- 

 retary of the Interior is hereby charged with the proper administra- 

 tion of tliis law. 



Sec 5. That the Secretar}^ of the Interior shall annually report to 

 Congress the disbui-sements which have been made in all the States 

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

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



Sec 6. Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any 

 or all of the provisions of this act. (Approved, Aug. 30, 1890.) 



