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Rh 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.

§ [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.

§ [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.

§ [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.

§ [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.

§ [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.