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28 received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth
29 may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a
30 building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of
31 such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per
32 centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended.

1 Sec. 7. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary
2 of the Treasury, from the annual statement of receipts and
3 expenditures of any of said stations, that a portion of the
4 preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such
5 amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual
6 appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of
7 money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the
8 amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance
9 and support.

1 Sec. 8. That nothing in this act shall be construed to
2 impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of
3 the said colleges and the government of the States or Territories
4 in which they are respectively located.

1 Sec. 9. That the provisions and benefits of this act shall
2 apply to the agricultural colleges which have been or may
3 hereafter be established in any of the Territories of the United
4 States under the laws thereof: Provided, That the average
5 attendance of pupils upon the instruction of such college for
6 the year preceding its application for the benefits of this act
7 shall not have been less than fifty: And provided further,