THE LEVER ACT 



treasurer or other officer of the State duly authorized by the 

 laws of the State to receive the same ; and such officer 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 during the previous 

 fiscal year, and of its disbursement, on forms prescribed by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Sec. 5. That if any portion of the moneys received by 

 the designated officer of any State for the support and main- 

 tenance of co-operative agricultural extension work, as pro- 

 vided in this act, shall by any action or contingency be 

 diminished or lost or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by 

 said State to which it belongs, and until so replaced no sub- 

 sequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to said 

 State, and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, di- 

 rectly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, 

 or repair of any building or buildings, or the purchase or 

 rental of land, in college-course teaching, lectures in colleges, 

 promoting agricultural trains, or any other purpose not 

 specified in this act, and not more than five per centum of 

 each annual appropriation shall be applied to the printing 

 and distribution of publications. It shall be the duty of 

 each of said colleges annually, on or before the first day of 

 January, to make to the governor of the State in which it is 

 located a full and detailed report of its operations in the 

 direction of extension work as defined in this act, including 

 a detailed statement of receipts and expenditures from all 

 sources for this purpose, a copy of which report shall be sent 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 6. That on or before the first day of July in each 

 year after the passage of this act the Secretary of Agricul- 



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