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

 of this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain and certify to the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury as to each state and territory whether it "is entitled to 

 receive its share of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of institutions for 

 colored students, under this act, and the amount which thereupon each is 

 entitled, respectively, to receive. If the Secretary of the Interior shall with- 

 hold a certificate from any state or territory 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 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 Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with the proper administration 

 of this law. 



Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to Congress 

 the disbursements which have been made in all the states and territories, and 

 also whether the appropriation of any state or territory has been withheld, 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, August 30, 1890. 



LAW ESTABLISHING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



[Hatch Act, March 2, 1887.] 



AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges 

 established in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary tliereto. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re^yresentatives of the United States 

 of America in Co7igrcss assembled, That, in order to aid in acquiring and diffus- 

 ing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on 

 subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and 

 experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, 

 there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges or agri- 

 cultural department of colleges in each state or territory established, or which 

 may hereafter be established, in accordance with the provisions of an act 

 approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act 

 donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide 

 colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of the 

 supplements to said act, a department to be known and designated as an " agri- 

 cultural experiment station:" Proridrd, that in any state or territory in which 

 two such colleges have been or may be so established, the appropriation herein- 

 after made to such state or territory shall be equally divided between such 

 colleges, unless the Legislature of such state or territory shall otherwise direct. 



Sec. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to 

 conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants 

 and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies 

 for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages 

 of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a 

 varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the 

 analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural oi 

 artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative efiects on crops 

 of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the 

 composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; 

 the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and 

 cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agri- 

 cultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, 



