PURNELL BILL 

 An Act 



To authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled* 

 That for the more complete eudowment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations now estab- 

 lished, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the Act of Congress approved March 2, 

 1887, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to the amounts now received by such agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, the sum of $20,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926; $30,000 for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1927; $40,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928; $50,000 for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1929; $60,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930; and $60,000 for each fiscal year 

 thereafter, to be paid to each State and Territory; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall include the addi- 

 tional sums above authorized to be appropriated in the annual estimates of the Department of Agriculture, 

 or in a separate estimate, as he may deem best. The funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be ap- 

 plied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations or making experiments bearing 

 directly on the production, manufactiure, preparation, use, distribution, and marketing of agricultural prod- 

 ucts, and including such scientific researches as have for their purpose the establishment and maintenance 

 of a permanent and efficient agricultural industry; and such economic and sociological investigations as 

 have for their purpose the development and improvement of the rural home and rural life, and for printing 

 and disseminating the results of said researches. » 



Sec. 2. That the sums hereby authorized to be appropriated to the States and Territories for the further 

 endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall be annually paid in equal quarterly pay- 

 ments on the Ist day of January, April, July, and October of each year by the Secretary of the Treasury upon 

 a warrant of the Secretary of Agriculture out of the Treasury of the United States to the treasurer or other 

 oflacer duly appointed by the governing boards of such agricultural experiment stations to receive the same; 

 and such ofiicers shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture on or before the Ist day of Sep- 

 tember 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 installments of the appropriation herein authorized to be made as shall 

 become due to any State or Territory before the adjournment of the regular session of the legislature meet- 

 ing next after the passage of this Act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly certified 

 to the Secretary of the Treasury 



Sec. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of any State or Territory for 

 the further and more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations 

 as provided in this Act shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost or be misapplied, it shall 

 be replaced by said State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation 

 shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory, and no portion of said moneys exceeding 10 per 

 centum of each annual appropriation shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to 

 the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings or to the purchase or rental 

 of land. It shall be the duty of each of the said stations annually, on or before the 1st day of February, 

 to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its 

 operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year next preceding, a copy of 

 which report shall be sent to each of the said stations and the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 4. That on or before the 1st day of July in each year after the passage of this Act the Secretary 

 of Agriculture shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory 

 whether it is complying with the provisions of this Act and is entitled to receive its share of the annual 

 appropriations for agricultural experiment stations under this Act and the amount which thereupon each 

 is entitled, respectively, to receive. If the Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold from any State or Terri- 

 tory a certificate 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 Territory may, if it shall so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, it shall be cov- 

 ered into the Treasury. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby charged with the proper administration 

 of this law. 



Sec. 5. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report to Congress on the receipts and 

 expenditures and work of the agricultural experiment stations in all of the States and Territories, and 

 also whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been withheld; and if so, the reason therefor. 



Sec. 6. That Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any and all of the provisions of thia 

 Act. 



Passed the House of Representatives February 10, 1923. 



Attest: 



Wm. Tyler PA.aE, 



Clerk. 



