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facilities for such instruction : Provided, That no money shall be paid 

 out under this act to any State or Territory for the support and 

 maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in 

 the admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance 

 of such colleges separately for white and colored students shall be 

 held to be a compliance with the provisions of this act if the funds 

 received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter 

 set forth: Provided, That in any State in which there has been one 

 college establish,ed in pursuance of the act of July second, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution 

 of like character has been established, or may be hereafter established, 

 and is now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the educa- 

 tion of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, how- 

 ever named or styled, or whether or not it has recevied money hereto- 

 fore under the act to which this act is an amendment, the Legislature 

 of such State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior 

 a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this act 

 between one college for white students and one institution for colored 

 students established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two 

 parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for col- 

 ored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and subject 

 to its provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been included 

 under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfillment 

 of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a compliance with the 

 provision in reference to separate colleges for white and colored 

 students. 



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

 ritories for the further endowment and support of colleges shall bo 

 annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, 

 by the Secretaiy of the Treasuiy, upon the warrant of the Secretaiy 

 of the Interior, out of the Treasuiy of the United States, to the State 

 or Territorial treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by 

 the laws of such State or Territoiy to receive the same, who shall, 

 upon the order of the trustees of the college, or the institution for 

 colored students, immediately pay over said sums to the treasurers 

 of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to- receive the 

 same, and such treasurers shall be required to report to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture and to the Secretaiy of the Interior, on or before 

 the first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the 

 amount so received and of its disbursement. The grants of moneys 

 authorized b}^ this act are made subject to the legislative aesent of the 

 several States and Territories to the puri)ose of said grants: Proi^hd, 

 That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made 

 as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular 

 session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall 



