The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-02-15
ESTABLISH BRANCH STATIONS
Annual Appropriation for Education in
Agricultural High SCHOOLS;
Experiment Stations.
From THURSDAYS Daily.

sofa has introduced in congress bill
which provides for an annual appropria-
ton for industrial education in agri
cultural high schools and in city high
schools and for branch agricultural en-
pertinent stations, and regulating the
expenditure thereof. The bill in full is
rs follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled, That there shall be, and hereby is
annually appropriated, out of any mon
ey in the treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, to be paid, as hereinafter
provided, to each state and territory
for the maintenance of instruction i'll
agriculture and home economies in ag-
ricultural high schools of secondary
grade and instruction i'll mechanic arts
and home economies in city high schools
of secondary grade, sum of money
equal to ten cents per capita of the pop
uldllOH VI cttCH SIdlc dlu IclllIOla
respectively, as shown by the last pre-
ceding national or state census, as shall
be apportioned by the secretary of agri-
culture and estimated for in the annual
estimates submitted to congress for the
department of agriculture: Provided,
That the funds thus appropriated shall
be used only for instruction in agri-
culture, mechanic arts, and home esono-
mics, and that all states and territOr-
les and all schools accepting these funds
shall provide other funds with which to
pay the cost of providing the necessary
lands and buildings and of instruction
in all general studies required to make
wcll-rounded high school courses of
study: And provided further, That nos
less than one-half of the sum thus APP
prOpriated to any state or territory
shall be expended for instruction in .ag-
riculture and home economies in agri-
cultural high schools maintained under
state authority in rural communities.
and the number of such agricultural
high schools which shall be entitled to
receive the benefits of this act in any
one state or territory shall not exceed
one school for each ten counties in that
state or territory.
Sec. 2. That there shall be, and here
law - annually ,ppronr;,t od ont of ,n,-
money in the treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, to be paid, as hereinafter
provided, to each state and territory
for the maintenance of branch agricul-
tural experiment stations under the di-
rection of the state agricultural expert
ment stations now established or which
may hereafter be established i'm accOr-
dance with the act of congress approved
March seventh, eighteen hundred and
siXty-two, the sum of two thousand
five hundred dollars for each branch ex-
pertinent station already established by
legislative enactment of the respective
states and territories, or which shall be
established by said states or territories
in connection with agricultural high
schools as appropriated for by this act
Provided, That no state or territory
shall be entitled to the benefits of Sec
ton two of this act until its legislature
shall by law provide for the establish,
ment of such branch stations and shall
provide annually for the equipment and
sum at least equivalent to that appro
priated annually to the state or terri
tory under section two of this act: and
the sum paid to each state or terri
tory under section two of this act shall
be applied only to paying the necessary
expenses of conducting at such brancI
experiment stations experiments bearing
directly upon the agricultural indus
try of the United States, having due re
gard to the varying conditions and needs
of the respective states or territorie.
and the respective agricultural regions
therein.
Sec. g. That the sums hereby ap
propriated to the states and territories
for the maintenance of branch aoricul
tural experiment stations and for in
struction in agriculture, mechanic arts
and home economies shall be annual,
paid, one half on the first day of Jul,
of each year and half on the frs
day of January of each year, by TIN
secretary of the treasury, upon the war
rant of the secretary of agriculture, on
of the treasury of the United States
to the treasurer or other officer drl
appointed by the governing boards o
said experiment stations and schools &
receive the same, and such officers shal
be required to report to the secretary o
agriculture on or before the first da,
of September of each year detaile
statement of the amounts SO receives
during the previous year and of its dis
bursement on schedules prepared by tn
secretary of agriculture. The grant