ress 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 experiment stations attached to said colleges, with their cost and results, and such other industrial and economical statistics as may be regarded as useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free to all other colleges further endowed under this Act. SEC. 4.8 That on or before the first day of October in each year, after the passage of this act, the Secretary of Education 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 Education 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 Education. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the Treasury. And the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is hereby charged with the proper administration of this law.9 SEC. 5.10 There is authorized to be appropriated annually for payment to the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Micronesia,11 and Guam the amount they would receive under this Act if they were States. Sums appropriated under this section shall be treated in the same manner and be subject to the same provisions of law, as would be the case if they had been appropriated by the first sentence of this Act. SEC. 6.12 Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or all of the provisions of this Act. 87 U.S.C. 326. The Act of April 21, 1976, Public Law 94-273, sec. 3(1), 90 Stat. 376, deleted "July" and inserted "October". For authority for insertion of "Secretary of Education", see note 3. 97 U.S.C. 321. For authority for insertion of "Secretary of Education", see note 3. 107 U.S.C. 326a. Added by the Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 92-318, sec. 506(c), 86 Stat. 350. Original sec. 5 of the Act of August 30, 1890, with respect to annual reports by the Secretary of the Interior was repealed by the Act of May 29, 1928, sec. 74, 45 Stat. 99. 11 Amended by the Education Amendments of 1980, Public Law 96-374, section 1361(b), 94 Stat. 1502. 12 7 U.S.C. 328. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES Act of March 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1281 and 1282 Chap. 2907.-AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purpose and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: * 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 colleges now established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sums named in the said Act, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for four years by an additional sum of five thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual sum to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory, shall be fifty thousand dollars, to be applied only for the purposes of the agricultural colleges as defined and limited in the Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. That the sum hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of the colleges shall be paid by, to, and in the manner prescribed by the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled 'An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," and the expenditure of the said money shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of the said Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the said Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen 1 The following two paragraphs appear as the tenth and eleventh paragraphs under the heading "Emergency Appropriations". hundred and ninety: Provided, That said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of food and agricultural sciences. 2 27 U.S.C. 322. A provision of the Act of March 4, 1907, which required the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to the Congress classified and detailed estimates and reports of every subject of expenditure by the Department of Agriculture was repealed by the Act of March 4, 1911, 36 Stat. 1264. The appropriation contained in this section was further supplemented by section 22 of the Bankhead-Jones Act, see page 17, 49 Stat. 436, 7 U.S.C. 329. The Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, Public Law 97-98, section 1419, 95 Stat. 1306, transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture all the functions and duties of the Secretary of Education under the tenth and eleventh paragraphs under the heading "Emergency Appropriations" of the Act of March 4, 1907; also, by section 1421(b), 95 Stat. 1306, "food and agricultural sciences" was substituted for "agriculture and the mechanic arts". BANKHEAD-JONES ACT OF 1935 Act of June 29, 1935, ch. 338, 49 Stat. 436, 7 U.S.C. 427 et seq. (Title I is set forth at p. 5.) TITLE II SEC. 22.1 In order to provide for the more complete endowment and support of the colleges in the several States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam,2 entitled to the benefits of Act entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862, as amended and supplemented (7 U.S.C. 301-328), there are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following amounts: 3 (a) For the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act and for each fiscal year therafter, $8,100,000; and (b) For the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act and for each fiscal year thereafter, $4,360,000. The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) shall be paid annually to the several States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam in equal shares. The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (b) shall be in addition to sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) and shall be allotted and paid annually to each of the several States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam in the proportion to which the total population of each State, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam bears to the total population of all the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam as determined by the last preceding decennial census. Sums appropriated in pursuance of this section shall be in addition to sums appropriated or authorized under such Act of July 2, 1862, as amended and supplemented and shall be applied only for the purposes of the colleges defined in such Act, as amended and supplemented. The provisions of law applicable to the use and payment of sums under the Act entitled "An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862," approved August 30, 1890, as amended and 17 U.S.C. 329. Amended in its entirety by the Act of July 14, 1960, Public Law 86-658, 74 Stat. 525. 2 References to the Virgin Islands and Guam were added by the Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 92-318, section 506(d)(1), 86 Stat. 350. 3 Annual appropriation authorizations in their present amounts were provided by the Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 92-318, 86 Stat. 350. |