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Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§325 State to Replace Funds Misapplied, Etc.; Restrictions on Use of Funds; Reports by Colleges

Title 7 › CHAPTER 13 — AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES › SUBCHAPTER II — COLLEGE-AID ANNUAL APPROPRIATION › § 325

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

States must replace any money they get for supporting colleges, including institutions for Black students, if the money is lost, reduced, or used wrongly. Until they replace it, they will not receive more of that funding. The funds cannot be used to buy, build, or repair buildings. Each college president must send a yearly report to the Secretary of Agriculture on the college’s condition, finances, library, student and teacher counts, and experiment-station projects with their costs and results. One free copy of the report must be mailed to every other college that received the same endowment.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §325

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If any portion of the moneys received by the designated officer of the State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored students, as provided in this subchapter, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned or paid to such State or Territory; and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings. An annual report by the president of each of said colleges shall be made to the Secretary of Agriculture, regarding the condition and progress of each college, including statistical information in relation to its receipts and expenditures, its library, the number of its students and professors, and also as to any improvements and experiments made under the direction of any experiment stations attached to said colleges, with their cost and results, and such other industrial and economical statistics as may be regarded as useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free to all other colleges further endowed under this subchapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

under this section to Secretary of Agriculture, see note set out under section 321 of this title. Functions of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and Secretary thereof under this subchapter transferred to Secretary of Education by section 301(a)(2)(E) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3441(a)(2)(E) of Title 20, Education.

Transfer of Functions

from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, see note set out under section 321 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 325

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102