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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 treas- 

 urer or other officer dul}' 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 nec- 

 essar}' 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 Secretar}^ of the 

 Treasury, from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures 

 of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appro- 

 priation 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 main- 

 tenance 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 and territories in which they are 

 respectively located. 



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

 to the benefits 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 Jul}' 2 aforesaid, 

 an agricultural department or experimental station in connection with 

 any university, college, or institution not distinctively an agricultu- 

 ral 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 appropri- 

 ation by this act made, to such separate agricultural college or 

 school; and no legislature shall, b}- contract, express or implied, 

 disable itself from so doing. 



Sec. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are 

 made subject to the legislative assent of the several states and 



