THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certi- 

 fied to the Secretary of the Treasury : Provided further, That 

 there is also appropriated an additional sum of $600,000 for 

 the fiscal year following that in which the foregoing appro- 

 priation first becomes available, and for each year thereafter 

 for seven years a sum exceeding by $500,000 the sum appro- 

 priated for each preceding year, and for each year thereafter 

 there is permanently appropriated for each year the sum of 

 $4,100,000 in addition to the sum of $480,000 hereinbefore 

 provided: Provided further. That before the funds herein 

 appropriated shall become available to any college for any 

 fiscal year plans for the work to be carried on under this act 

 shall be submitted by the proper officials of each college and 

 approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. Such additional 

 sums shall be used only for the purposes hereinbefore stated, 

 and shall be allotted annually to each State by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture and paid in the manner hereinbefore provided, 

 in the proportion which the rural population of each State 

 bears to the total rural population of all the States as deter- 

 mined by the next preceding Federal census : Provided fur- 

 ther. That no payment out of the additional appropriations 

 herein provided shall be made in any year to any State until 

 an equal sum has been appropriated for that year by the 

 legislature of such State, or provided by State, county, col- 

 lege, local authority, or individual contributions from within 

 the State, for the maintenance of the co-operative agricul- 

 tural extension work provided for in this act. 



Sec. 4. That the sums hereby appropriated for exten- 

 sion work shall be paid in equal semiannual payments on the 

 first day of January and July of each year by the Secretary 

 of the Treasury upon the warrant of the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the 



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