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having due regai'd to the varying conditions and needs of the respective states 

 or territories. 



Sec. 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods 

 and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of the United States 

 Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the 

 tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate from time to 

 time such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and, in gen- 

 eral, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purpose 

 of this act. It shall be the duty of each of said stations annually, on or before 

 the first 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 state- 

 ment of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each 

 of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of 

 the Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations 

 at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper 

 in the states or territories in which they are respectively located, and to such 

 individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as 

 the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual 

 reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free 

 of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may from 

 time to time prescribe. 



Sec. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of conducting 

 investigations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as 

 hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby 

 appropriated to each state, to be especially provided for by Congress in the 

 appropriations from year to year, and to each territory entitled under the pro- 

 visions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding 

 from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments on the first 

 day of January, April, July, and October in each year, to the Treasurer or other 

 officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the 

 same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-seven: Provided, however, That out of the first annual appropriation 

 so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended 

 in the erection, enlargement or repair of a building or buildings necessary for 

 carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding 

 five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended. 



Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury, from 

 the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations, that a 

 portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such 

 amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to 

 such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station 

 shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its mainte- 

 nance and support. 



Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the 

 legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of 

 the states or territories in which they are respectively located. 



Sec. 8. That in states having colleges entitled under this section to the 

 bentifits of this act, and having also agricultural experiment stations established 

 by law separate from said colleges, such states shall be authorized to apply such 

 benefits to experiments at stations so established by such states; and in case any 

 state shall have established under the provisions of said act of July second, afore- 

 said, an agricultural department or experimental station, in connection with 

 any university, college, or institution not distinctively an agricultural college 

 or school, and such state shall have established or shall hereafter establish a 

 separate agricultural college or school which shall have connected therewith an 

 experimental farm or station, the Legislature of such state may apply in whole 

 or in part the appropriation by this act made to such separate agricultural college 

 or school, and no Legislature shall by contract, express or implied, disable itself 

 from so doing. 



