The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26


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 full and de-
tailed report of its operations, includ
ing statement Of receipts and ex-
penditures, a copy of which report
shall be sent tc each of said stations,
to the said Commissioner of Agricult-
ure, and to the Secretary of the Treas
ury Of the United States.
SEC. 4. That bulletins or reports of
progress shall be published at said sta
tions at least once in three months,
one copy of which shall be sent to each
newspaper in the States and Terrific
ties in which they are respectfully
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 re-
port of said stations shall be trans
mitted in the mails of the United
States free of charge for postage,
under such regulations as the Post
master General may from time to time
prescribe.
Sec. 5. That for the purpose of pay
ing the necessary expenses of conduct
ing Investigations and experiments
and printing and distributing the re-
suits as hereinbefore prescribed, the
sum of fifteen thousand dollars per
annum is hereby appropriated to 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 Octo-
Der 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
beimade on the first day of October,
eidhteen hundred and eighty seven:
ProUlded, however, That out Of the first
annual appropriation so received by
any station an amount not exceeding
one-ffth 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 exceed |
ing five per centum of such annual ap-
preparation may be so expended.
SEC. g. That whenever it shall ap-
pear to the Secretary of the Treasury
from the annual statement of receipts |
and expenditures Of any of said sta
tions that portion of the preceding
annual appropriation remains unex-
pended, such amount shall be de-
Quoted from the next annual ap-
preparation to such station, in or
der that the amount of money ap-
propriated to any station shall not
exceed the amount actually and nee
essarily required for it's maintenance
and support
SEC. T. That nothing in this act
shall be construed to impair or
modify the legal relation existing be-
tween any of the said colleges and the
government of the States or Terrific
ries in which they are respectively |
located.
Sec. 8. That in States having cole
ges entitled under this section to the
benefits of this act and having also
agricultural experiment stations estab-
lished by law separate from said collie
ges 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 estab-
lished, under the provisions of said
act of July second aforesaid, an agri
cultural department or experimental
station, in connection with any uni
versity, callege or institution not dis
tinctly 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
Herewith an experimental farm or
station, the Legislature of such State
may apply in whole or in part the ap-
preparation by this act made, to such
separate agricultural colleges or
schools, and no Legislature shall by
contract express or implied disable
itself from so doing.
SEC. 9. That the grants of money
authorized by this act are made sub
ject to the legislative assent of the
several States and Territories to the
purposes of said grants: Provtded,
That payments of such instalments of
the appropriation herein made as shall |
become due to any State before the
adjournment of the regulur session of
its Legislature meeting next after the
passage of this act shall be made upon |
the assent of the Governor thereof |