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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 Terri-
4 . tories 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,