Section 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of con-
ducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing the re-
sults as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum
is hereby appropriated to 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 pay-
ments, 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 ex-
ceeding 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 appro-
priation may be so expended.
Section 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treas-
ury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said sta-
tions 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 main-
tenance and support.
