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Learn About the Morill Land Grant Acts

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“AN ACT Donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which
may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.”
— First Morrill Act, 1862

Summary: Morrill Act of 1862 established
the Land Grant university system.

On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law what is generally
referred to as the Land Grant Act. The new piece of legislation introduced
by U.S. Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont granted to each state
30,000 acres of public land for each Senator and Representative under apportionment
based on the 1860 census. Proceeds from the sale of these lands were to be
invested in a perpetual endowment fund which would provide support for colleges
of agriculture and mechanical arts in each of the states.

FIRST MORRILL ACT. July 2, 1862. AN ACT
Donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide
Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

SECOND MORRILL ACT. August 30, 1890. AN
ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete
endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the
mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved
July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

See also: Bankhead-Jones Act
See also: Sea-Grant Act

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An Explanation of the First Morrill Act

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Land
Grants: First Morrill Act







Act of July 2, 1862,
ch.130, 12 Stat.503,7 U.S.C.301 et.seq.


Chap. CXXX. — AN ACT
Donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide
Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.


Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,(1) That there be granted to the several States,(2) for the purpose
hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each
State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative
in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment
under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty:(3) Provided, That no mineral
lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 2.(4) And be it
further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned
to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than
one quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject
to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the
quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such
lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is
hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity
of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of
this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive
share: said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied
to the uses and purposes prescribed in this Act, and for no other purpose
whatsoever: Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip
may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any
other State, or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees
may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the
United States subject to the sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five
cents, or less, per acre: And provided, further, That not more than one million
acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the States: And provided,
further, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage
of this Act.


Sec.3.(5) And be it
further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and
taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all
expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may
be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong,
out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale
of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes
hereinafter mentioned.


Sec.4.(6) That all moneys
derived from the sales of lands aforesaid by the States to which lands are
apportioned and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for shall
be invested in bonds of the United States or of the States or some other safe
bonds;(7) or the same may be invested by the States having no State bonds
in any manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto
and engaged that such funds shall yield a fair and reasonable rate of return,
to be fixed by the State legislatures, and that the principal thereof shall
forever remain unimpaired: (8) Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned
shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever
undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section 5 of this Act),
and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State
which may take and claim the benefit of this Act, to the endowment, support,
and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be,
without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military
tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture
and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may
respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education
of the industrial classes on the several pursuits and professions in life.



Sec.5.(9) And be it
further enacted, That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall
be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions
hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be
signified by legislative acts:






First. If any portion
of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion
of the interest thereon,shall,by any action or contingency, be diminished
or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the
capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; and the annual interest
shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in
the fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum
upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may
be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever
authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.


Second. No portion
of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly,
under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or
repair of any building or buildings.

Third. Any State which
may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide,
within five years from the time of its acceptance as provided in subdivision
seven of this section,(10) at least not less than one college, as described
in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease;
and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received
of any lands previously sold; and that the title to purchasers under the
State shall be valid.


Fourth. An annual
report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any
improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such
other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as
may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail [free](11)
by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions
of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.


Fifth. When lands
shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum
price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the
States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished.



Sixth. No State while
in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the
United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act.


Seventh. No State
shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its
acceptance thereof by its legislature within three years from July 23, 1866:(12)
Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted to
the Union, such a new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said
act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance
therein required within three years from the date of its admission into
the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after
such acceptance, as prescribed in this act.(13)





Sec.6.(14) (Repealed)


Sec.7.(15) And be it
further enacted, That the land officers shall received the same fees for locating
land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now allowed for the
location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, their
maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.


Sec.8.(16) And be it
further enacted, That the Governors of the several States to which scrip shall
be issued under this act shall be required to report annually to Congress
all sales made of such script until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount
received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds.



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Endnotes:


(1) U.S.C. 301.

(2) The College of the
Virgin Islands and the University of Guam were included as land grant colleges
by the Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 92-318, sec. 506(a) and (b), 86 Stat.
350, 7 U.S.C. 301, note, as follows:


“LAND-GRANT STATUS FOR
THE COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF GUAM


“Sec. 506(a) The College
of the Virgin Islands and the University of Guam shall be considered land-grant
colleges established for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts in accordance
with the provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, as amended (12 Stat. 503;
7 U.S.C. 301-305, 307, 308).






“(b) In lieu of extending
to the Virgin Islands and Guam those provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862,
as amended, relating to donations of public land or land scrip for the endowment
and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic
arts, there is authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 to the Virgin Islands
and $300,000.000 to Guam. Amount appropriated pursuant to this section shall
be held and considered to have been granted to the Virgin Islands and Guam
subject to the provisions of that Act applicable to the proceeds from the
sale of land or land scrip.”





Land grants under the Act
of July 2, 1862, do not extend to the State of Alaska. Admission of Alaska into
the union was accomplished January 3, 1959, upon issuance of Proc. No. 3269,
January 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c.16, as required by sections 1 and 8
(c) of Act of July 7, 1958, Public Law 85-508, 72 Stat. 339, 48 U.S.C. sec.
21, note. For provisions making the land grant under Alaska Statehood provisions
in lieu of grant of acreage under 7 U.S.C. see 301 et seq. (declared not to
extend to Alaska), see sec. 6(1) of the Act of July 7, 1958, Public Law 85-
508, 72 Stat. 339, 48 U.S.C., sec 21, note.


(3) An exchange of land
in the State of Missouri was authorized by the Act of September 4, 1957, Public
Law 85-282, sections 1-3, 71 Stat. 607, 7 U.S.C. 301, note, as follows:






“That, notwithstanding
the provisions of the Act entitled ‘An Act donating public lands to the several
States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture
and the mechanic arts’, approved July 2, 1862, (7 U.S.C., secs. 301-308),
the State of Missouri is authorized to convey to the United States all right,
title, and interest of such State in and to any land granted to such State
under authority of such Act of July 2, 1862, which is located within the exterior
boundaries of the national forests situated within such State, and, in exchange
therefor, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to convey to the State
of Missouri all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to
not to exceed an equal value of national forest lands (as determined by the
Secretary)situated within such State.






“Sec 2. Any exchange authorized
by the first section of this Act shall be made in accordance with the applicable
provisions of section 7 or the Act of March 1, 1911, commonly referred to as
the Weeks Law (16 U.S.C., sec. 516), and the applicable provisions of the Act
entitled ‘An Act to consolidate national forest lands’, approved March 20, 1922
(16 U.S.C., sec. 485 and 486).


“Sec.3. Any land conveyed
to the State of Missouri under authority of this Act shall, upon acceptance
of such conveyance by such State, be held and considered to be granted to
such State subject to the provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, referred
to in the first section of this Act.”

(4) 7 U.S.C. 302.


(5) 7 U.S.C. 303.


(6) 7 U.S.C. 304.


(7) The Act of April
13, 1926, ch. 130, 44 Stat. 247, substituted “bonds” for “stocks” and “a fair
and reasonable rate of return, to be fixed by the State legislatures” for
“not less than 5 per centum upon the amount so invested”, before proviso.



(8) The Act of March
3, 1883, ch. 102, 22 Stat. 484. added after the words “other safe stocks”
the words “or the same may be invested by the States having no State stocks
in any other manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented
thereto, and engaged that such funds shall” and substituted “yield” for “yielding”,
“principal” for “capital” and “unimpaired” for “undiminished”.

(9) 7 U.S.C. 305.


(10) Added by the Act
of July 23, 1866, ch. 209, 14 Stat. 208.


(11) Authority for free
mail was repealed by act March 3, 1873, which provided in part: “That all
laws and parts of laws permitting the transmission by mail of any free matter
whatever be, and the same are hereby, repealed from and after June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three.”


(12) The Act of July
23, 1866, ch. 209, 14 Stat. 208, added “within three years from July 23, 1866:”
in lieu of “within two years from the date of its approval by the President.”



(13) Proviso added by
the Act of July 23, 1866, ch. 209, 14 Stat. 208. This provision does not apply
to Alaska. See note 2 above. Another proviso from the Act of July 23, 1866,
which was formerly set out at the end of subdivision seventh and read: “Provided
further, That any State which heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act
herein referred to shall have the period of five years within which to provide
aty least one college, as described in the fourth section of said act, after
the time for providing said college according to the act of July second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired”, has been omitted.

(14) 7 U.S.C. 306, Sec.
6, which related to time of location of land scrip, was repealed by the Act
of December 16, 1930, ch. 14, sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1028.


(15) 7 U.S.C. 307.

(16) 7 U.S.C. 308.

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The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 Established the Cooperative Extension Service

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Established in 1914, Cooperative Extension was designed as a partnership of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the land-grant universities, which were authorized by the Federal Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. Legislation in the various States has enabled local governments or organized groups in the Nation’s counties to become a third legal partner in this education endeavor. 

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Learn About the Hatch Act, the Birth of a US Network of Agricultural Experiment Stations

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Act of March 2, 1887;(1) ch. 314,24 stat.440,7 U.S.C.361a et seq.

Chap. 314. — AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Section 1.(2) It is the policy of Congress to continue the agricultural research at State agricultural experiment stations which has been encouraged and supported by the Hatch Act of 1887, the Adams Act of 1906, the Purnell Act of 1925, the Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935, and title I, section 9, of that Act as added by the Act of August 14, 1946, and Acts amendatory and supplementary thereto, and to promote the efficiency of such research by a codification and simplification of such laws. As used in this Act the terms “State” or “States” are defined to include the several States, including the District of Columbia,(3) Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.(4) As used in this Act, the term “State agricultural experiment station” means a department which shall have been established, under the direction of the college or university or agricultural departments of the college or university in each State in accordance with an Act approved July 2, 1862 (12 Stat.503), entitled “An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts”;(5) or such other substantially equivalent arrangements as any State shall determine.

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Sec.2.(6) It is further the policy of the Congress to promote the efficient production, marketing, distribution, and utilization of products of the farm as essential to the health and welfare of our peoples and to promote a sound and prosperous agriculture and rural life as indispensable to the maintenance of maximum employment and national prosperity and security. It is also the intent of Congress to assure agriculture a position in research equal to that of industry, which will aid in maintaining an equitable balance between agriculture and other segments of our economy. It shall be the object and duty of the State agricultural experiment stations through the expenditure of the appropriations hereinafter authorized to conduct original and other researches, investigations, and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural industry of the United States, including researches basic to the problems of agriculture in its broadest aspects, and such investigations as have for their purpose and development and improvement of the rural home and rural life and the maximum contribution by agriculture to the welfare of the consumer, as may be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective states.

Sec.3.(7) (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act such sums as Congress may from time to time determine to be necessary.

 

(b)(1)(8) Out of such sums each State shall be entitled to receive annually a sum of money equal to and subject to the same requirement as to use for marketing research projects as the sums received from Federal appropriations for State agricultural experiment stations for the fiscal year 1955, except the amounts heretofore made available from the fund known as the “Regional research fund, Office of Experiment Stations” shall continue to be available for support of cooperative regional projects as defined in subsection 3(c)(3), and the said fund shall be designated “Regional research fund, State agricultural experiment stations”, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall be entitled to receive annually for the administration of this Act, a sum not less than that available for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955: Provided, That if the appropriations hereunder available for distribution in any fiscal year are less than those for the fiscal year 1955 the allotment to each State and the amounts for Federal administration and the regional research fund shall be reduced in proportion to the amount of such reduction.

 

(2) There is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and for each fiscal year thereafter, for payment to the Virgin Islands and Guam, $100,000 each, which sums shall be in addition to the sums appropriated for several States of the United States and Puerto Rico under the provisions of this section. The amount paid by the Federal Government to the Virgin Islands and Guam pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed during any fiscal year, except the fiscal years ending June 30, 1971, and June 30, 1972, when such amount may be used to pay the total cost of providing services pursuant to this Act, the amount available and budgeted for expenditure by the Virgin Islands and Guam for the purposes of this Act.

 

(c) Any sums made available by the Congress in addition to those provided for in subsection (b) hereof for the State agricultural experiment station work shall be distributed as follows:

 

1. Twenty per centum shall be allotted equally to each State;

2. Not less than 52 per centum of such sums shall be allotted to each State, as follows: One-half in an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the rural population of the State bears to the total rural population of all the States as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at the time each such additional sum is first appropriated; and one-half in an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the farm population of all the States as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at the time such additional sum is first appropriated;

3. Not more than 25 per centum shall be allotted to the States for cooperative research in which two or more State agricultural experiment stations are cooperating to solve problems that concern the agriculture of more than one State. The funds available for such purposes, together with funds available pursuant to subsection (b) hereof for like purpose shall be designated as the “Regional research fund, State agricultural experiment stations”, and shall be used only for such cooperative regional projects as are recommended by a committee of nine persons elected by and representing the directors of the State agricultural experiment stations, and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. The necessary travel expenses of the committee of nine persons in performance of their duties may be paid from the fund established by this paragraph.

4. (Repealed)(9)

5. Three per centum shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for administration of this Act. These administrative funds may be used for transportation of scientists who are not officers or employees of the United States to research meetings convened for the purpose of assessing research opportunities or research planning.(10)

 

(d) Of any amount in excess of $90,000 available under this Act for allotment to any State, exclusive of the regional research fund, State agricultural experiment stations, no allotment and no payments thereof shall be made in excess of the amount which the State makes available out if its own funds for research for the establishment and maintenance of facilities necessary for the prosecution of such research: And provided further, That if any State fails to make available for such research purposes for any fiscal year a sum equal to the amount in excess of $90,000 to which it may be entitled for such year, the remainder of such amount shall be withheld by the Secretary of Agriculture.

(e) “Administration” as used in this section shall include participation in planning and coordinating cooperative regional research as defined in subsection 3(c)3.

(f) In making payments to States, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to adjust any such payment to the nearest dollar.

 

Sec.4.(11) Moneys appropriated pursuant to this Act shall also be available, in addition to meeting expenses for research and investigations conducted under the authority of section 2, for printing and disseminating the results of such research, retirement of employees subject to the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1940 (54 Stat.39), administrative planning and direction, and for the purchase and rental of land and construction, acquisition, alteration, or repair of buildings necessary for conducting research. The State agricultural experiment stations are authorized to plan and conduct any research authorized under section 2 of this Act in cooperation with each other and such other agencies and individuals as may contribute to the solution of the agricultural problems involved, and moneys appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be available for paying the necessary expenses of planning, coordinating, and conducting such cooperative research.

Sec.5.(12) Sums available for allotment to the States under the terms of this Act, excluding the regional research fund authorized by subsection 3(c)3, shall be paid to each State agricultural experiment station in equal quarterly payments beginning on the first day of October of each fiscal year upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. Each such station authorized to receive allotted funds shall have a chief administrative officer known as a director, and a treasurer or other officer appointed by the governing board of the station. Such treasurer or other officer shall receive and account for all funds allotted to the State under the provisions of this Act and shall report, with the approval of the director to the Secretary of Agriculture on or before the first day of December of each year a detailed statement of the amount received under provisions of this Act during the preceding fiscal year, and of its disbursement on schedules prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. If any portion of the allotted moneys received by the authorized receiving officer of any State agricultural experiment station shall by any action of contingency be diminished, lost, or misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State concerned and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be allotted or paid to such State.

Sec.6.(13) Bulletins, reports, periodicals, reprints or articles, and other publications necessary for the dissemination of results of the researches and experiments, including lists of publications available for distribution by the experiment stations, shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States under penalty indicia: Provided, however, That each publication shall bear such indicia as are prescribed by the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe. Such publications may be mailed from the principal place of business of the station or from an established subunit of said station.

Sec.7.(14) The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby charged with the responsibility for the proper administration of this Act, and is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this Act, including participation in coordination of research initiated under this Act by the State agricultural experiment stations, from time to time to indicate such lines of inquiry as to him seem most important, and to encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the several State agricultural experiment stations, and between the stations and the United States Department of Agriculture.

 

On or before the first day of October in each year after the passage of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain as to each State whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriations 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 the station under this Act remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual allotment to the State concerned.

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.

 

Sec.8.(15) Nothing in this Act 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 this Act for such State shall be divided between such institutions as the legislature of such State shall direct.

Sec.9.(16) The Congress may at any time, amend, suspend, or repeal any or all of the provisions of this Act.

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Endnotes:

(1) The Hatch Act was amended in its entirety by the Act of August 11, 1955, ch. 790, 68 Stat.671.

(2) 7 U.S.C.361a.

(3) Amended by Public Law 93-471, 88 Stat. 1429, which defined State to include the District of Columbia.

(4) Amended by Public Law 92-318, 86 Stat. 351, which defined State to include Guam and the Virgin Islands.

(5) First Morrill Act

(6) 7 U.S.C. 361b. v (7) 7 U.S.C. 361c.

(8) The Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 93-318, Title V, sec. 506, 86 Stat. 351, designated existing provisions as par. (b)(1) and added par. (b)(2).

(9) The Food and Agricultural Act of 1977, Public Law 95-113, section 1466, 91 Stat. 1018, repealed (c)4 which read: “Not less than 20 per centum of any sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for distribution to States shall be used by State agricultural experiment stations for conducting marketing research projects approved by the Department of Agriculture.”

(10) The last sentence of paragraph (5) was added by the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, Public Law 95-113, section 1446, 91 Stat. 1018.

(11) 7 U.S.C. 361d.

(12) 7 U.S.C. 361e, Act of April 21, 1976, Public Law 94-273, 90 Stat. 373, substituted “October” and “December” for “July” and “September”.

(13) 7 U.S.C. 361f.

(14) 7 U.S.C. 361g. Public Law 94-273, 90 Stat. 376, substituted “October” for “July” in second paragraph. The last paragraph of section 7 which required annual reports was repealed by Public Law 86-533, sec. 1(22), 74 Stat. 249.

(15) 7 U.S.C. 361h. Amended by the Act of August 11, 1955, ch. 790, sec. 1, 69 Stat.674.

(16) 7 U.S.C. 361i. Amended by the Act of August 11, 1955, c. 790, sec 1, 69 Stat.674.

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