each state, to be specially provided for by congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each territory entitled under the provisions 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.
Secretary of treasury to deduct unexpended annual appropriation, when.Section 6 of an act of congress approved March 2, 1887.
§ [83.] 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 maintenance and support.
Act how construed.Section 7 of an act of congress approved March 2, 1887.
§ [84.] Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the aid colleges and the government of the states or territories in which they are respectively located.
Benefits may be applied to other experiment stations, when.Section 8 of an act of congress approved March 2, 1887.
§ [85.] In states having colleges entitled. under this section to the ben fits 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 aforesaid, 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.
Grant of moneys authorized subject to legislative assent.Section 9 of an act of congress approved March 2, 1887.
§ [86.] The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several states and territories to the purposes of said grants; provided, that payment of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become clue to any state before the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature meeting 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.
Congress may amend or repeal act.Section 10 of an act of congress approved March 2, 1887.
§ [87.] Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the treasury to any or all the states or institutions mentioned in this act, but congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act.
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