Chap. 26.—An ACT to accept the certain grants of money as made by the con-
gress of the United States, March 16, 1906, as appropriations for the use of the
agricultural experiment stations of the several States and territories of the
United States.

Approved February 8, 1908.

Whereas, congress on March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, by
an act entitled “an act to provide for an increased annual appropriation
for agricultural experiment stations, and regulating the expenditure
thereof, did appropriate to the several States and territories, for the
further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations, the
same to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January,
April, July and October of each year, by the secretary of the treasury,
upon the warrant of the secretary of agriculture, out of the treasury of
the United States, to the treasurer or other officers duly appointed by
the governing boards of said experiment stations to receive the same
upon the conditions and for the purposes in said act set out;” and

Whereas, in said act of congress, among other things, it is provided
that the same grants of money are made subject to the legislative assent
of the several States and territories for the purposes above mentioned ;
now, therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the Com-
monwealth of Virginia does hereby accept and assent to the said grant and
appropriation for the use and benefit of its agricultural and experiment
station, located at Blacksburg, in the State of Virginia.

2. An imperative public necessity existing to secure this federal appro-
priation creates an emergency that this act shall take effect on and after
its passage, and it is so enacted.