SEC. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations 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 maintenance and support.

SEC, 7.

That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located.

SEC. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of this act and having also ageicultural 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 Legisiature 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.

SEC. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants; Provided, That payment of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of its Legislature 'meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the Governor thereof duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act. Approved March 2, 1887.

II.

CURRICULA.

Academic Department.

A. A. JOHNSON, A. M. D., D., President.

Cora M. McDONALD, Principal, assisted by the regular professors in the College of Liberal Arts, as the work may demand.

The above Sub-Preparatory course is temporarily maintained in the Academic Department of the University for the benefit of students who come from counties which, as yet, do not offer High School advantages.

GENERAL ACADEMIC COURSE.

This is a consolidated preparatory course and prepares students for the Freshman class in the College of Liberal Arts, leading to either of the four degrees conferred in the Collegiate Department.

This course is also a part of the course of study in the College of Agriculture and School of Mechanics.

Students electing to pursue the course in Agriculture will be permitted to omit Latin if they so desire.

This course is also a part of the work preparatory for the Normal Course.

Students will be admitted to the Academic Course by passing a satisfactory examination in Arithmetic, English Grammar and Composition, Physiology, United States History, Physical Geography and Elementary Algebra.

Students in the Academic Course will be divided into four sections for work in rhetoricals, thus requiring students to come on performance once a month, either in essay, declamation or debate.

This rhetorical work will be in charge of the Principal of the Academic Department.