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 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sms. II. Ch. 308. 1925. 971 each fiscal year thereafter, to be paid to each State and Territory; and the Secretary of Agr1culture shall include the additional sums m?§ws*f,‘““‘“ “° "°““"‘ above authorized to be appropriated in the annual estimates of the ` Department of Agriculture, or in a separate estimate, as he may _ deem best. The funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be  °"*’"°“‘ applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations or making experiments bearing directly on the production manufacture, preparation, use, distribution, and marketin of agricultural products and including such scientific researches asdiave for their purpose the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and efficient agricultural industry, and such economic and sociological investigations as have for their purpose the development and improvement of the rural home and rural life, and for printing and disseminating the results of said researches. Sec. 2. That the sums hereby authorized to be appropriated to the P“’m°“°S °"“"°'l" States and Territories for the further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall be annually paid in equal quarterly {payments on the lst day of January, pril, July, and October o each year by the Secretary of the Treasury upon a 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 such agricultural experiment stations to receive the same and such officers shall be required to report to the m§°P°"¤ °' *°°°*¤°¤· Secretary of Agriculture on or before the lst day of September of elzicg year a detaileldcgtitement of biéléebampuiét so receivpgglnd of its s ursement on sc u es rescri yt e ecretaryo icu ture. 6 . 8 v The grants of money autliiorized by this Act are made subject to ¤¤i='¤£ii·.n ° mm lqgislative assent of e several States and Territories to the pur PWM 0 said grants: Promded That payment of such installments of the www orzovemmappro riation herein authorized to be made as shall become due to any State or Territory before the adjournment of the regular session of the 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. Sumtonmumb Sec. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the desig— ayp1led,eto.,apportionnated officer of any State or Territory for the further and more "'“"· complete endowment, support, and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations as rovided in this Act shall by any action or contingency be diminisilied or lost or  misaplplied, it shall be replaced by said State or Territory to which it be ongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or (paid to mmm. atc um such State or Territory, and no portion of said moneys excee ing 10 me "’ per centum of each annual appropriation shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purc ase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings or to the mm Bxépcru to purchase or rental of land. It shall be the dugy of each of the said ‘°""‘°”’ ‘ stations annually, on or before the 1st day of ebruary, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is ocated a full and detailed report of its opprations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year next preceding, a copy of which re rt shall be sent to each of the said stations and the Secretary ogxlhgriculture and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. _ . ceaamzsuwmm- Sm. 4. That on or before the lst day of July m each year after xm ‘"“‘ “‘° ""'· the passage of this Act the Secretary of Agriculture sha] ascertam and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is complying with the provisions of this Act 1S entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriations for agri-