New Mexico § 76-2-1 - Matching federal allotment to state

§ 76-2-1. Matching federal allotment to state

That for the maintenance of the cooperative agricultural extension work provided for

in the act of congress entitled: “An act to provide for cooperative agricultural

extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the

benefits of an act of congress approved July second, one thousand eight hundred and

sixty-two, and all acts supplementary thereto, and the United States department of

agriculture,” approved May 8, 1914, there is hereby permanently appropriated out of

any money in the state treasury, except interest upon the public debt, the sum of

one dollar ($1.00) for each dollar allotted annually by the secretary of agriculture

as provided in said act of congress to the state of New Mexico above the sum of ten

thousand dollars ($10,000) regularly appropriated to each state which shall by action

of its legislature assent to the provisions of said act, the said appropriation not

to exceed the sum of thirty-four hundred dollars ($3,400) for the fiscal year ending

June 30, 1916, and for each year thereafter for seven years, a sum exceeding, by not

more than three thousand dollars ($3,000), the sum appropriated for each preceding

year, after which time the said appropriation shall continue annually in accordance

with the provisions of said act of congress, such appropriations being required by

said act of congress, in order that the state may obtain the benefit of the said annual

allotments of money by the secretary of agriculture over and above the said sum of

ten thousand dollars ($10,000).