Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§329 Additional appropriation for agricultural colleges
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 13— - AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - COLLEGE-AID ANNUAL APPROPRIATION › § 329
Summary
Each year, starting with the first fiscal year after this law is passed, the Treasury must pay two amounts: $8,250,000 and $4,380,000. The $8,250,000 is divided equally among the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The $4,380,000 is extra and is divided among those places based on each place’s share of the total population, using the most recent census taken every ten years. The money comes from Treasury funds not already set aside. These payments are in addition to money already provided under the 1862 land‑grant college law and must be used only for the colleges covered by that law. The same rules that govern the 1890 land‑grant payments apply to how this money is paid and spent.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §329
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In order to provide for the more complete endowment and support of the colleges in the several States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands entitled to the benefits 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, as amended and supplemented (7 U.S.C. 301–328), there are authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following amounts:
(a)For the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, and for each fiscal year thereafter, $8,250,000; and
(b)For the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, and for each fiscal year thereafter, $4,380,000.The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) shall be paid annually to the several States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands in equal shares. The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (b) shall be in addition to sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) and shall be allotted and paid annually to each of the several States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands in the proportion to which the total population of each State, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands bears to the total population of all the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands as determined by the last preceding decennial census. Sums appropriated in pursuance of this section shall be in addition to sums appropriated or authorized under such Act of July 2, 1862, as amended and supplemented, and shall be applied only for the purposes of the colleges defined in such Act, as amended and supplemented. The provisions of law applicable to the use and payment of sums under the Act entitled “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 2, 1862,” approved August 30, 1890, as amended and supplemented, shall apply to the use and payment of sums appropriated in pursuance of this section.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Act of
July 2, 1862, as amended and supplemented (7 U.S.C. 301–328), referred to in text, probably means act
July 2, 1862, ch. 130, 12 Stat. 503, popularly known as the Morrill Act and also as the First Morrill Act, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 301 et seq.) of this chapter, along with the Act of
August 30, 1890, see below. For complete classification of act
July 2, 1862, to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 301 of this title and Tables. The words “date of enactment of this Act” appear in par. (a) of section 22 of act
June 29, 1935, which was approved on
June 29, 1935, and also in pars. (a) and (b) of section 22 of act
June 29, 1935, as amended by Pub. L. 86–658, which was approved on
July 14, 1960. Act of
August 30, 1890, as amended and supplemented, referred to in text, is act Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 841, 26 Stat. 417, popularly known as the Agricultural College Act of 1890 and also as the Second Morrill Act, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 321 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the act Aug. 30, 1890, which comprises this subchapter. Section was formerly classified to section 343d of this title.
Amendments
1986—Pub. L. 99–396 substituted “Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands” for “and Guam” in five places, “$8,250,000” for “$8,100,000”, and “$4,380,000” for “$4,360,000”. 1972—Pub. L. 92–318 inserted references to Virgin Islands and Guam, and substituted “$8,100,000” and “$4,360,000” for “$7,800,000” and “$4,320,000”, respectively. 1968—Pub. L. 89–791, as added by Pub. L. 90–354, increased authorization for annual appropriations for Federal grants to States for support of resident teaching in land-grant colleges and universities from an authorization of $7,650,000 to $7,800,000, allocated equally among the States, and from an authorization of $4,300,000, allotted on basis of relative State population, to $4,320,000. 1960—Pub. L. 86–658 increased authorization for annual appropriations for Federal grants to States for support of resident teaching in land-grant colleges and universities from an authorization of $1,000,000, allocated equally among the States, to $7,650,000, and from an authorization of $1,501,500, allotted on basis of relative State population, to $4,300,000, struck out references to Territories of Alaska and Hawaii as now included in term “States” and included Puerto Rico in provisions of section. 1952—Opening par. Act
June 12, 1952, § 1, made section applicable to Alaska. Par. (a). Act
June 12, 1952, § 2, increased allotment from $980,000 to $1,000,000. Par. (b). Act
June 12, 1952, §§ 3, 4, increased additional allotment of $1,500,000 to $1,501,500, and made said par. applicable to Alaska.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1972 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 92–318 effective after June 30, 1970, see section 506(n) of Pub. L. 92–318, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 326a of this title.
Effective Date
of 1952 AmendmentAct June 12, 1952, ch. 419, § 5, 66 Stat. 136, provided that: “The
Amendments
made by this Act [amending this section] shall take effect on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act [June 12, 1952].”
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 329
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73