AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASED ANNUAL APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS AND REGULATE THE EXPENDITURE THEREOF.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations now established, or which may be hereafter established, in accordance with the Act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of five thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for five years by an additional sum of two thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be fifteen thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.

SEC. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall be annually paid, in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, July and October of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Agriculture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the Treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said experiment stations to receive the same, and such officers shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture, on or before the first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the amount so received and of its disbursement, on schedules prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. The grants of money authorized by this Act are made subject to legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of Legislature meeting next after the passage of this Act shall be made upon the assent of the Governor thereof, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of any State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations as provided in this Act shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by said State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory; and no portion of said moneys, exceeding five per centum of each annual appropriation, shall be applied directly or indirectly under any pretense whatever to the purchase, erection,

preservation or repair of any building or buildings, or to the purchase or rental of land. 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 statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

SEC. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year after the passage of this Act the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory, whether it is complying with the provisions of this Act and is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations under this Act, and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. If the Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of Agriculture. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, it shall be covered into the Treasury; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby charged with the proper administration of this law.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report to Congress on the receipts and expenditures and work of the agricultural experiment stations in all the States and Territories, and also whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor.

SEC. 6. That Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or all of the provisions of this Act.

Approved March 16th, 1906.

AN ACT to supply a portion of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of Colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established, or which may be hereafter established, in accordance with an Act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual

amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction: Provided, That no money shall be paid out under this Act to any State or Territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance with the provisions of this Act if the funds received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth: Provided, That in any State in which there has been one college established in pursuance of the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and is now aided by such State from its own revenue for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however named or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore under the Act to which this Act is an amendment, the Legislature of such State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a just and equitable division of the funds to be received under this Act between one college for white students and one institution for colored students established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for colored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act and subject to its provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been included under the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfillment of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a compliance with the provision in reference to separate colleges for white and colored students.

SEC. 2. That the sum hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the State or Territorial Treasurer or to such officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive same, who shall, upon the order of the trustees of the college, or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over said sums to the Treasurers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive the same, and such Treasurers shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior on or before the first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the amount so rceived and of its disbursement. The grants of moneys authorized by this Act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of 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.

SEC. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of the State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support and maintenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored students, as provided in this Act, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory; and no portion of said moneys shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings. An annual report by the President of each of said colleges shall be made to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as to the Secretary of the Interior, regarding the condition and progress of each college, including statistical information in relation to its receipts and expenditures, its library, the number of its students and professors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made under the direction of any Experimental Stations attached to said colleges, with their costs and results, and such other industrial and economical statistics as may be regarded as useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail to all other colleges further endowed under this Act.

SEC. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, after the passage of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory, whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of institutions for colored students, under this Act, and the amount which thereupon each is entitled respectively, to receive. If the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of the Interior. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the treasury. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with the proper administration of this law.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to Congress the disbursements which have been made in all the States and Territories, and also whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor.

SEC. 6. Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all of the provisions of this Act.

Approved August 30, 1890.

State Laws Relating to the College

In November, 1889, the General Assembly passed the following law, authorizing the establishment of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina:

SECTION 1300. The Honorable Thomas G. Clemson having departed this life on the sixth day of April, A. D. 1888, leaving of force his last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate on the twentieth day of April, 1888, in the office of the Judge of Probate of the County of Oconee, in the State of South Carolina, wherein he devised and bequeathed to his executor, Richard W. Simpson, of Pendleton, South Carolina, a tract of land situated on Seneca River, in Oconee County, in said State, containing eight hundred and fourteen acres, more or less, known as the Fort Hill plantation, as well as all his other property, both real and personal, except certain legacies in the said will mentioned and provided for, all in trust to convey to the State of South Carolina when the said State shall accept the same for the purpose of establishing and maintaining an Agricultural and Mechanical College upon the aforesaid Fort Hill plantation upon the terms and conditions of said will, the State of South Carolina hereby expressly declares that it accepts the devise and bequest of Thomas G. Clemson, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in his last will and testament, and the Treasurer of the State is hereby authorized and empowered to receive and securely hold the said property, both real and personal, and to execute all necessary papers and receipts therefor as soon as the said executor shall convey and transfer the said devise and bequest to the State.

SEC. 1301. The deed and transfer of said property to the State having been duly executed and made by the said executor, in accordance with the provisions of said will, an Agricultural and Mechanical College in connection with the aforesaid devise and bequest, to be styled "The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina," and situated at Fort Hill, in Oconee County, on the plantation so devised; in which College shall be taught all branches of study pertaining to practical and scientific agriculture and other industries connected therewith, and such other studies as are not inconsistent with the terms of the said will.

SEC. 1302. The said College shall be under the management and control of a Board of thirteen Trustees composed of the seven members nominated by said will and their successors, and six members to be elected by the Legislature in Joint Assembly.

SEC. 1308. One-half of the Land Scrip Fund heretofore vested by Section 1045 of the General Statutes (1882) in the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina is hereby vested in the six members of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College elected by the General Assembly; and the State Treasurer is authorized and required to issue a certificate of State stock in the sum of ninety-five thousand nine hundred dollars, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, to the said six members of the said Board of Trustees, to be held as a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall forever remain undiminished, the income of said fund to be used by said Board of Trustees for the