§ 361h. Relation of college or university to State unaffected; division of appropriations

Statutory text

Nothing in sections 361a to 361i of this title shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the colleges or universities under whose direction State agricultural experiment stations have been established and the government of the States in which they are respectively located. States having agricultural experiment stations separate from such colleges or universities and established by law, shall be authorized to apply such benefits to research at stations so established by such States: Provided, That in any State in which more than one such college, university, or agricultural experiment station has been established the appropriations made pursuant to sections 361a to 361i of this title for such State shall be divided between such institutions as the legislature of such State shall direct.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1887
Pub. L. 49–314 § 8 · 24 Stat. 440
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 361h
Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 8, 24 Stat. 441
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 8, 24 Stat. 441
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to Application to States having experiment stations. the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established by such States; and in case any State shall have established under the provisions of said act of July second aforesaid, an agricultural department or experimental station, in connection with any university, college or institution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such State shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or school, which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legislature of such State may apply in whole or in part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate agricultural college, or school, and no legislature shall by contract express or implied disable itself from so doing.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 378 of this title.

Amendments

1955—Act Aug. 11, 1955, amended section generally to provide that the relation between the college and the State is to be unaffected, and to require division of appropriations.

Credits

1887–1955 · 2 acts

1887Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 8, 24 Stat. 441
1955Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 1, 69 Stat. 674.

Show as published

(Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 8, 24 Stat. 441; Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 1, 69 Stat. 674.)