Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§322 Annual Appropriation
Title 7 › Chapter 13— AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES › Subchapter II— COLLEGE-AID ANNUAL APPROPRIATION › § 322
Summary
Each year, $50,000 is paid from Treasury funds not already used to each State and Territory to help support colleges set up under the law to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts. The money must be used only for teaching food and agricultural sciences and for the facilities for that instruction, and part may be used to train teachers in those subjects.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §322
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There is annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as provided in section 324 of this title, to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established in accordance with the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter, $50,000 to be applied only to instruction in food and agricultural sciences, and to the facilities for such instruction: Provided, That said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of food and agricultural sciences.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section is based on a part of section 1 of act Aug. 30, 1890, and the tenth and eleventh pars. under the heading “Emergency Appropriations” of act Mar. 4, 1907. Remainder of section 1 of act Aug. 30, 1890, is classified to section 323 of this title.
Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97–98 substituted “food and agricultural sciences” for “agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life” and “the elements of food and agricultural sciences” for “the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts”. 1907—Act Mar. 4, 1907, substituted “$50,000” for “$25,000”, and inserted proviso.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–98 effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 4301 of this title.
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
under this section to Secretary of Agriculture, see note set out under section 321 of this title. Availability of Funds for Payments Under This Subchapter Pub. L. 103–330, title VII, § 724, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2469, provided that: “No funds shall be available in fiscal year 1995 and thereafter for payments under the Act of
August 30, 1890 and the tenth and eleventh paragraphs under the heading ‘Emergency Appropriations’ of the Act of
March 4, 1907 (7 U.S.C. 321 et seq.).”
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
7 U.S.C. § 322
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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