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PUBLIC LAW 352-AUG. 11, 1955
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priations for agricultural experiment stations under this Act and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. "Whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of funds by any State agricultural experiment station that any portion of the preceding annual appropriation allotted to that station under this Act remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual allotment to the State concerned, dentf°'* *° ^'^^^' "If the Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold from any State any portion of the appropriations available for allotment, 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. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid, it shall be carried to surplus. Report to Coiv"The Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report to the gressa Congress during the first regular session of each year of the receipts and expenditures and work of the agricultural experiment stations in all the States under the provisions of this Act and also whether any portion of the appropriation available for allotment to any State has been withheld and if so the reasons therefor. "SEC. 8. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair or modif}^ 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 this Act for such State shall be divided between such institutions as the legislature of such State shall direct. "SEC. 9. The Congress may at any time, amend, suspend, or repeal any or all of the provisions of this Act." Repeals. gj^^ £. The following listed sections or parts of sections of the Statutes at Large heretofore covering the provisions consolidated in this Act are hereby repealed: Provided, however, That any rights or liabilities existing under such repealed sections or parts of sections shall not be affected by their repeal: Bankhead-Jones Act, title I, sections 2 to 8. June 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 436;7 U.S.C.427a-g). Section 9, and related provisions of section 11 of the BankheadJones Act, title I, as added by title I of the Research and Marketing Act (60 Stat. 1082; 7 U.S.C. 427h, 427j). Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944, title I, section 105, amending the Bankhead-Jones Act, title I, section 5, by adding subsection (c) (58 Stat. 735; 7 U.S.C. 427d). Act approved June 7, 1888, amending the Hatch Act (25 Stat. 176; 7 U.S.C. 372). Adams Act approved March 16, 1906 (34 Stat. 63; 7 U.S.C. 369, 371,373,366,374,375,361,376,380,382). Purnell Act approved February 24, 1925 (43 Stat. 970; 7 U.S.C. 370,371,373,374,375,376,366,361,380,382). The Acts extending the benefits of the foregoing Acts to the Territory of Hawaii, the Territory of Alaska, and Puerto Rico: Hawaii, Act of May 16, 1928 (45 Stat. 571; 7 U.S.C. 386, 386a, 386b); Alaska, Act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1553), as amended by Public Law 739, approved August 29, 1950 (7 U.S.C. 369a); Alaska, Act of February 23, 1929 (45 Stat. 1256; 7 U.S.C. 386c); Puerto Rico, Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1520; 7 U.S.C. 386d, e, f).
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