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CORNELL 
 
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TEN LAWS 
 
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K THE LAND GRANT ACT, OR MORRILL ACT. 
 
 Public Laws of the United States, 1862, Chapter 130. 
 Approved by. President Lincoln, July 2, 1862. 
 AN ACT donating public lands to the several States and Terri- 
 tories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture 
 and the mechanic arts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there 
 be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter men- 
 tioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a 
 quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Repre- 
 sentative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled 
 by the apportionment under the Census of i860: Provided, That no 
 mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions 
 of this act. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, 
 after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in 
 sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of 
 a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject 
 to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, 
 the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected 
 from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary- 
 of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States im 
 which there is not the quantity of public land subject to sale at 
 private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to whicb. 
 paid State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, lanci 
 scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive 
 share ; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof 
 applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no 
 other use or purpose whatsoever : Provided, That in no case shall 
 
any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to 
 locate the same within the limits of any other State, or of any 
 territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate 
 said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United 
 States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five 
 cents, or less, per acre: and provided further. That not more than 
 one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of 
 the States : and provided further, That no such location shall be 
 made before one year from the passage of this act. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That all the expenses of 
 management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of 
 said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the 
 management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received 
 therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, 
 out of tlie treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the 
 sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever 
 to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted. That all moneys derived 
 from the sale of lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands 
 are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore pro- 
 vided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of 
 the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per 
 centum upon the par value of said stocks; and that the moneys so 
 invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall 
 remain forever undiminished, (except so far as may be provided 
 in section fifth of this act,) and the interest of which shall be inviol- 
 ably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the 
 Ijenefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of 
 at least one college where the leading object shall be, without exclud- 
 ing other scientific and classical studies, and including military tac- 
 tics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture 
 and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the 
 States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal 
 and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pur- 
 suits and professions in life. 
 
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and 
 land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following condi- 
 tions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, 
 the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legis- 
 lative acts : 
 
 First. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the 
 foregoing section, or an}' portion of the interest thereon, shall, by 
 any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced 
 by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall 
 remain forever undiminished ; and the annual interest shall be regu- 
 larly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the 
 fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not exceeding ten per 
 centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions 
 of this act, ma}' be expended for the purchase of lands for sites 
 or experimental farms whenever authorized by the respective legis- 
 latures of said States. 
 
 Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, 
 shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, 
 to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or 
 buildings. 
 
 Third. Any State which may take and claim the benefit of 
 the provisions of this act, shall provide, within five years, at least 
 not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this 
 act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and such State shall be 
 bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands 
 previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall 
 he valid. 
 
 Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the prog- 
 ress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments 
 made,, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including 
 State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; 
 one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all 
 the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of 
 this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior. 
 
 Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have 
 been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of rail- 
 
road grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum 
 price, and the number of acres proportionately diminished. 
 
 Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrec- 
 tion against the government of the United States shall be entitled to 
 the benefit of this act. 
 
 Seventh. No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act 
 unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within 
 two years from the date of its approval by the president. 
 
 Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That land scrip issued under 
 the provisions of this act shall not be subject to location until after 
 the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. 
 
 Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That the land officers shall 
 receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the pro- 
 visions of this act as is now allowed for the location of military 
 bounty land warrants under existing laws : Provided, their maxi- 
 mum compensation shall not be thereby increased. 
 
 Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That Governors of the 
 several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall be 
 required to report annually to Congress all sales made of such scrip 
 until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the 
 same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds. 
 
 n. CONGRESSIONAL INDUSTRIAL FUND, OR 
 SECOND MORRILL ACT. 
 
 Approved by President Harrison, August 30, 1890. 
 AN ACT to. apply a portion of the proceeds of the pubHc 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 second, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Be it cnactr.d by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
 Ihe United States of America in Congress assembled. That there 
 
shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in 
 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales 
 of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State 
 and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance 
 of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now 
 established or which may be hereafter established, in accordance 
 with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year 
 ending June thirtieth, eighteen himdred and ninety, and an annual 
 increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten 
 years b)' an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preced- 
 ing year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State 
 and Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied 
 only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English 
 language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, nat- 
 ural and economic science, with special reference to their applica- 
 tion in the industries of life and to the facilities for such instruction : 
 Provided, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any 
 State or Territory for the support and maintenance of a college 
 where a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of 
 students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges 
 separately for white and colored students shall be held to be a com- 
 pliance with the provisions of this act if the funds received in such 
 State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth: 
 Provided, That in any State in which there has been one college 
 established in pursuance of the act of July second, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like 
 character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and 
 i? now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the education 
 of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however 
 named or styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore 
 under the act to which this act is an amendment, the Legislature of 
 such State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior 
 a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this 
 act between one college for white students and one institution for 
 
colored students established as aforesaid, which shall be divived into 
 two parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for 
 colored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and sub- 
 ject to its provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been 
 included under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the 
 fulfillment of the foregoing provisions shall be taken as a compliance 
 with the provision in reference to separate colleges for white and 
 colored students. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and 
 Territories for the further endowment and support of Colleges shall 
 be annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, 
 by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary 
 of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the State 
 or Territorial treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by the 
 laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon 
 the order of the trustees of the college, or the institution for colored 
 students, immediately pa)? over said sums to the treasurers of the 
 respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive the same; 
 and such treasurers shall be required to report to the Secretary of 
 Agiculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the 
 first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the 
 amount so received and of its disbursements. The grants of moneys 
 authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of 
 the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants : 
 Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriation 
 herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjourn- 
 ment of the regular session meeting next after the passage of this 
 act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly 
 certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 3. That 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 act, 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 appor- 
 tioned 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, as 
 well as to the Secretary of the Interior, 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 costs -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 act. 
 
 Sec. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, 
 after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascer- 
 tain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State 
 and Territory whether it is entitled to receive its share of the 
 annual appropriation for colleges, or of institutions for colored stu- 
 dents, under this act, and the amount which thereupon each is 
 entitled, respectively, to receive. If the Secretary of the Interior 
 shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appro- 
 priation the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the 
 President, and the amount iiivolved shall be kept separate in the 
 Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State 
 or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the 
 determination of the Secretary of the Interior. If the next Congress 
 shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the 
 Treasury. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with 
 the proper administration of this law. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually 
 report to Congress the disbursements which have been made in all 
 the States and Territories, and also whether the appropriation of 
 
any State or Territory has been withheld, and if so, the reasons 
 therefor. 
 
 Sec. 6. Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal 
 any or all of the provisions of this act. 
 
 m. THE HATCH ACT, OR EXPERIMENT 
 STATION ACT. 
 
 Approved by President Cleveland, March 2, 1887. 
 
 AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection 
 with the colleges established in the several States under the 
 provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order 
 to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United 
 States useful and practical information on subjects connected with 
 agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment 
 respecting the principles and application of agricultural science, 
 there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges, 
 or agricultural departments of colleges, in each State or Territory 
 established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance 
 with the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty- two, 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," or any of the supple- 
 ments to said act, a department to be known and designated as an 
 "agricultural experiment station"; provided, that in any State or 
 Territory in which two such colleges have been or may be so estab- 
 lished the appropriation hereinafter made to such State or Territory 
 shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the legislature 
 of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct. 
 
Sec. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment 
 station to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the 
 physiology of plants and animals ; the diseases to which they are 
 severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical com- 
 position of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the 
 comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a 
 varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for 
 acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical coinpo- 
 sition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to 
 test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adap- 
 tation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and 
 digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals ; the 
 scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter 
 and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing 
 directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may 
 in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying 
 conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories. 
 
 Sec. 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniform- 
 ity of methods and results of the work of said stations, it shall be 
 the duty of the United States Commissioner of Agriculture to fur- 
 nish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of 
 investigation or exj>eriments ; to indicate, from time to time, such 
 lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and, in 
 general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote 
 the purposes of this act. It shall be the duty of each of said 
 stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make 
 to the Governor of the State or Territory in which it is located, a 
 full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of 
 receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to 
 each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and 
 to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be pub- 
 lished at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of 
 v/hich shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories 
 in which they are respectively located, and to such individials actually 
 
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 engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the 
 means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the 
 annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of 
 the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations 
 as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe. 
 
 Sec. s. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses 
 of conducting investigations and experiments and printing and dis- 
 tributing the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of fifteen 
 thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each State, 
 to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriation from 
 year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions 
 of section eight of this act, out of any money in the treasury proceed- 
 ing from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly 
 payments, on the first day of January, April, July and October in 
 each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the 
 governing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first pay- 
 ment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and 
 eighty-seven: Provided, however, That our of the first annual 
 appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding 
 one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement or repair of 
 a building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such 
 station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum 
 of such annual appropriation may be so expended. 
 
 Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the 
 Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures 
 of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appro- 
 priation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from 
 the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order 
 that the amount of money appropriated to any. station shall not 
 exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its main- 
 tenance and support. 
 
 Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair 
 or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said college^ 
 and the government of the States or Territories in which they are 
 respectively located. 
 
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 Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this 
 section to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experi- 
 ment stations established by law separate from said colleges, such 
 States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at 
 stations so established by such States; and in case any State shall 
 have established under the provisions of said act of July second 
 aforesaid, an agricultural department or experimental station, in 
 connection with any university, college or institution not distinct- 
 ively an agricultural college or school, and such State shall have 
 established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college 
 or school, which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm 
 or station, the legislature of such State may apply in whole or in 
 part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate agricul- 
 tural college or school, and no legislature shall by contract express' 
 or implied disable itself from so doing. 
 
 Sec. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are 
 made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Terri- 
 tories to the purpose of said grants; Provided, That payment of 
 such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become 
 due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of 
 its legislature meeting next after the passage of this act, shall be 
 made upon the assent of the Governor thereof duly certified to the 
 Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as 
 binding the United States to continue any payments from the Treas- 
 ury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, 
 but Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all 
 the provisions of this act. 
 
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 IV. ADAMS ACT, OR SECOND EXPERIMENT 
 STATION ACT. 
 
 Approved by President Roosevelt, March i6, 1906. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for an increased annual appropriation for 
 agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure 
 thereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there 
 shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in 
 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter 
 provided, to each State and Territory, for the more complete endow- 
 ment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations now estab- 
 lished or which may hereafter be established in accordance with the 
 Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and 
 eighty-seven, the sum of five thousand dollars in addition to the 
 sum named in said Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and six, and an annual increase of the amount of such 
 appropriation thereafter for five years by an additional sum of two 
 thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount 
 to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be thirty 
 thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses 
 C'f conducting original researches or experiments bearing directly 
 en the agricultural industry of the United States, having due regard 
 to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or 
 Territories. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and 
 Territories for the further endowment and support of agricultural 
 experiment stations shall be annually paid in equal quarterly pay- 
 ments on the first day of January, April, July and October of each 
 year by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Sec- 
 retary of Agriculture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to 
 the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards 
 
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 of said experiment stations to receive the same, and such officers 
 shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agriculture on or 
 before the first day of September of each year a detailed statement 
 of the amount so received and of its disbursement, on schedules pre- 
 scribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. The grants of mone> 
 authorized by this Act are made subject to legislative assent of the 
 several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Pro- 
 vided, That payment of such installments of the appropriation herein 
 made as shall become due to any State or Territory before the 
 adjournment of the regular session of the legislature meeting next 
 after the passage of this Act shall be made upon the assent of the 
 governor thereof, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the, 
 designated officer of any State or Territory for the further and 
 more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of agricul- 
 tural experiment stations as provided in this Act shall by any action 
 or contingency be diminished or lost or be misapplied, it shall be 
 replaced by said 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 
 exceeding five per centum of each annual appropriation shall be 
 applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the 
 purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or build- 
 ings, or to the purchase or rental of land. It shall be the duty of 
 each of said stations annually, on or before the first day of February^, 
 to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is 
 located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a state- 
 ment of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall 
 be sent to each of said stations, to the Secretary of Agriculture, 
 and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 4. That on or before the first day of July in "each year 
 after the passage of this Act the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
 ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treastiry as to each 
 .State and Territory whether it is complying with the provisions 
 of this Act and is entitled to receive its share of the annual appro- 
 
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 priation for agricultural experiment stations under this Act and 
 the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. 
 Tf the Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold a certificate from 
 any State or Territory or its appropriations, the facts and reasons 
 therefor shall be reported to the President and the amount, involved 
 shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next. 
 Congress in order that the State or Territory may, if it shall so 
 desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary 
 of Agriculture. If the next Congress shall not direct such sum to be 
 paid, it shall he covered into the Treasury; and the Secretary of 
 Agriculture is hereby charged with the proper administration of this 
 law. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an 
 annual report to Congress on the receipts and expenditures of and 
 work of the agricultural experiment stations in all of the States 
 and Territories, and also whether the appropriation of any State 
 or Territory has been withheld ; and if so, the reason therefor. 
 
 Sec. 6. That Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or 
 appeal any or all of the provisions of this act. 
 
 V. THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN NEW 
 
 YORK, 
 
 Chapter 338 QLthe laws of 1893; together with amendments to 
 May 3, ^^EfT (Section 87 of the Agricultural Law.) 
 
 Approved by Governor Flower, April 10, 1893. 
 
 Sec. 87. The Cornell university and the agricultural experi- 
 ment station at Geneva established . by the laws of the state are 
 hereby designated as the institutions within thi^ state, entitled to 
 receive such portion as the legislature shall determine of the benefits 
 of the act of congress of the United States, approved March second, 
 eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish 
 agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges 
 
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 established in the several states, under the provisions of an act 
 approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the 
 acts supplementary thereto." Such benefits of such acts which this 
 state is authorized thereby to apply to any college, institution or 
 agricultural experiment station within this state, are applied to 
 the agricultural experiment station established under the direction 
 of Cornell university and the agricultural experiment station at 
 Geneva, and this state consents that such appropriation, money or 
 benefits to or for the use of this state, or of any institution within 
 this state, payable under or in pursuance of such act of congress, 
 shall be paid nine-tenths thereof to the treasurer of Cornell uni- 
 versity, the officer designated to receive the same, and one-tenth 
 thereof to the officers of the agricultural experiment station at 
 Geneva designated to receive the same, to be expended as provided 
 in such act of congress. Such experiment station shall, annually, 
 on or before the first day of December, make, to the commissioner 
 of agriculture, a full and detailed report pf its operations,, including 
 a statement of its receipts and expenditures for the year ending with 
 the thirtieth day of September then next preceding. Such experi- 
 ment station may, with the consent and approval of the commis- 
 sioner of agriculture, appoint horticultural experts to assist such 
 experiment station, in the fifth judicial department, in conducting 
 investigations and experiments in horticulture; in discovering and 
 remedying the disease of plants, vines and fruit trees; in ascertain- 
 ing the best means of fertilizing vineyard, fruit and garden planta- 
 tions, and of making orchards, vineyards and gardens prolific; in 
 disseminating horticultural knowledge by means of lectures or other- 
 wise ; and in preparing and printing, for free distribution, the results 
 of such investigations and experiments, and such other information 
 as may be deemed desirable and profitable in promoting the horti- 
 cultural interests of the state. Such experts may be removed by 
 such experiment station, in its discretion, and may be paid for their 
 services such sum as it may deem reasonable and proper, and as 
 shall be approved by the commissioner of agriculture. All of such 
 
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 work by such experiment station and by such experts shall be under 
 the general supervision of the commissioner of agriculture. 
 
 Sec. 2. The treasurer of this state shall keep the account of 
 all moneys hereafter received by him in pursuance of such act of 
 congress, in a separate fund, to the credit of the Cornell univer- 
 sity and the agricultural experiment station at Geneva, in the pro- 
 portion stated in section one of this act, and shall pay all such 
 moneys irnmediately upon the receipt thereof by him to the officers 
 respectively designated therein to receive the same, upon the warrant 
 of the comptroller, issued upon the order of the trustees of Cornell 
 imiversity and the board of control of the agricultural experiment 
 station at Geneva, in pursuance of said act of congress, which said 
 moneys are hereby appropriated for the purposes herein stated. 
 
 Sec. 3. The sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in 
 the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the New 
 York State Agricultural Experiment Station, at Geneva, for the 
 purpose of agricultural experiments, investigations, instruction and 
 information, in the second judicial department, pursuant to section 
 eighty-five of the agricultural law, and the sum of eight thousand 
 dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessar}', is hereby appro- 
 priated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropri- 
 ated, to be paid to the agricultural experiment station at Cornell 
 university, for the purpose of horticultural experiments, investiga- 
 tions, instruction and information, in the fifth judicial department, 
 pursuant to section eighty-seven of the agricultural law. Such 
 money shall be paid by the treasurer upon the warrant of the comp- 
 troller, upon vouchers approved by the commissioner of agriculture. 
 (As amended by chapter 6j^ of the Laws of 1894.) 
 
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 VI. RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE FUNDS AP- 
 PROPRIATED BY THE ADAMS ACT. 
 
 Concurrent Resolution Relative to Providing for Increased 
 Appropriations to the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
 tions in Connection with Colleges. 
 
 Filed in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, April 19, 1906. 
 
 Wheijeas, On the sixteenth day of March, nineteen hundred 
 and six, an act of Congress became law by the signature of the 
 President of the United States, entitled "An Act to provide for an 
 increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations 
 and regulating the expenditure thereof": 
 
 And whereas^ Section two of said act provides, That "the 
 grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the 
 legislative assent of the several States and territories to the purpose 
 of said grants": 
 
 And whereas. The people of the State of New York 
 represented in Senate and Assembly have accepted the grants pro- 
 vided by the Act of Congress of the United States approved March 
 second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, establishing 
 ■agricultural experiment stations in the several states and to which 
 the present act is a supplement, and have designated the beneficiaries 
 ■of said grants by law, therefore, 
 
 1. Resolved, That the people of the State of New York 
 represented in Senate and Assembly do hereby give their assent to 
 the purpose of said additional grants in accordance with the pro- 
 visions and requirements of said act of Congress of 1906, and do 
 hereby designate as the beneficiaries thereof the State College of 
 Agriculture at Cornell University, and the New York State Agricul- 
 tural Experiment Station at Geneva, in the same manner and in 
 the same proportions as the benefits of said prior act are enjoyed 
 pursuant to section eighty-five of the agricultural law of the State 
 •of New York. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is 
 
directed to forward a copy of this concurrent resolution duly certi- 
 fied to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 Vn. NIXON ACT, FOR THE PROMOTION OF 
 AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 Chap. 430 of the Laws of 1899. 
 Approved by Governor Roosevelt, April 25, 1899. 
 
 AN ACT making an appropriation for the promotion of agricul- 
 ture by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University. 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate- 
 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section i. For the promotion of agricultural knowledge 
 throughout the state, the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so 
 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of 
 any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to be 
 paid to the college of Agriculture at Cornell university to be 
 expended in giving instruction throughout the state by means of 
 schools, lectures and other university extension methods, or other- 
 wise, and in conducting investigations and experiments; in discov- 
 ering the diseases of plants and remedies; in ascertaining the best 
 method of fertilization of fields, gardens and plantations; and best 
 modes of tillage and farm management and improvement of live 
 stock ; and in printing leaflets and disseminating agricultural knowl- 
 edge by means of lectures and otherwise; and in preparing and 
 printing for free distribution the results of such investigations and 
 experiments ; and for republishing such bulletins as may be useful', 
 in the furtherance of the work; and such other information as may 
 be deemed desirable and profitable in promoting the agricultural- 
 interests of the state. Such college of agriculture may, with the 
 consent and approval of the commissioner of agriculture, employ 
 teachers and experts and necessary clerical help to assist in carrying;^ 
 out the purposes of this bill. Such teachers, experts and clerical: 
 
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 help may be removed by the college of agriculture in its descretion; 
 and may be paid for their services such sum or sums as may be 
 deemed reasonable and proper and as shall be approved by the com- 
 missioner of agriculture. All of such work by such teachers and 
 experts who shall be employed under this bill shall be under the 
 general supervision and direction of the commissioner of agriculture. 
 The sum appropriated by this act shall be paid by the treasurer of 
 the state upon the warrant of the comptroller to the treasurer of 
 Cornell university, upon such treasurer filing with the comptroller 
 a bond in such sum and with such sureties as the comptroller may 
 approve, conditioned for the faithful application of such sum to the 
 purposes for which the same is hereby appropriated. Such sum 
 shall be payable by the treasurer of Cornell university upon vouchers 
 approved by the officers or agents of such university having charge 
 cf such college of agriculture, and such vouchers shall be filed by 
 the treasurer of Cornell university in the offices of the comptroller 
 of the state. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Vm. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW YORK 
 STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. 
 
 Chapter 655 of the Laws of 1904. 
 
 Approved by Governor Odell, May 9, 1904. 
 
 AN ACT to establish a state college of agriculture at Cornell uni- 
 versity, and m.aking an appropriation therefor. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section i. For the purpose of constructing and equipping a 
 suitable building or buildings for a state college of agriculture at 
 Cornell university upon the grounds of said university at Ithaca, 
 New York, -to enable it to carry on efficiently the work of instruction 
 
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 and investigation in agriculture for the state, the sum of two hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
 sary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, not 
 otherwise appropriated, only one hundred thousand dollars of which 
 shall be available during the year nineteen hundred and four. Said 
 buildings shall be known as the New York state college of agricul- 
 ture at Cornell university, and such buildings and equipment shall 
 be and remain the property of the state. The buildings constructed 
 shall include a principal building costing not more than one hundred 
 and twenty-five thousand dollars, a hall for agricultural machinery, 
 a stock judging pavilion and a horticultural building. Not more 
 than fifty thousand dollars of said appropriation shall be used under 
 the provisions of this act for the equipment of such buildings and 
 the further equipment of a dairy building to be constructed at the 
 expense of the said university in place of the present dairy building 
 heretofore erected by the state. Upon the expenditure of forty 
 thousand dollars by the university for said new dairy building, this 
 appropriation shall be applicable, so far as necessary to defray the 
 additional cost thereof in excess of that sum. Upon the completion 
 of said new dairy building, the present dairy building shall become 
 the property of the University, free from any obligation to the 
 state in relation thereto. Before any part of such appropriation 
 shall become available, the land on which the buildings provided 
 for in this act, are to stand shall be conveyed to the people of the 
 state by Cornell university and the conveyance approved as to form 
 and manner of execution by the attorney-general. The conveyance 
 shall include the land upon which every such building is to stand 
 and a strip ten feet wide around the same with the right of way to 
 tlie same. The university shall during the pleasure of the state have 
 complete control over the land thus conveyed and the buildings when 
 erected thereon for the purpose of maintaining an agricultural col- 
 lege as fully as if no conveyance had been made. If at any time 
 such buildings shall cease to be available to the university for use as 
 an agricultural college through an act of the legislature abolishing 
 the same, the land and buildings shall revert to Cornell university. 
 
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 i-'ut in that case such reversion to the university shall be condi- 
 tioned upon the payment by the university to the state of the then 
 duly appraised value of all such buildings. 
 
 Sec. 2. The amount hereby appropriated shall be paid by 
 tl:e treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller, upon vouch- 
 ers approved by the commissioner of agriculture, to Cornell 
 universit}' to be expended by it as agent of the state in pursuance of 
 this act. The state architect shall prepare the necessary drawings 
 and specifications and shall control, as architect, all work of con- 
 struction authorized by this act, but said plans and specifications 
 shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of agriculture 
 and the board of trustees of said Cornell university. The 
 work under this act shall be done by contract, except work 
 which in the opinion of the comptroller and the state architect can 
 be done, in whole or in part, more advantageously by the employ- 
 ment of labor and the purchase of materials in the open market. 
 All expenditures under this act shall be made pursuant to estimates 
 or pursuant to contracts, the form of which shall be prescribed by 
 the state architect. The estimates shall be made to the comptroller 
 in the usual form by the board of trustees of Cornell university. 
 Where the work estimated for is from drawings and specifications 
 of the state architect, the estimate shall be subject to his approval 
 also. No item of said appropriation shall be available, except for 
 advertising, unless a contract or contracts, or estimate or estimates 
 therefor shall have been first made for the completion thereof 
 within the appropriation therefor. All contracts in an amount 
 greater than one thousand dollars shall have the performance thereof 
 secured by sufficient bond or bonds, said bond or bonds to be 
 approved by and filed witli the comptroller. All contracts in an 
 amount of less than one thousand dollars need have no surety bond, 
 provided pa)'ment is to be made only after the work is completed and 
 approved. All payments on contracts shall be made on the certifi- 
 cate of the state architect and the voucher of the board of trustees 
 of Cornell university after audit by the comptroller. All original 
 bids or proposals, with abstract thereof, shall accompany the copy 
 
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 of the contracts which is to be filed with the comptroller. Moneys 
 herein appropriated shall only be advanced to the board of trustees 
 of Cornell university as the work progresses, or the purchase of 
 material is made and upon bills duly certified, rendered and andited.* 
 Nothing in this act shall be construed to relieve Cornell university 
 of any of its obligations to the state to provide for instruction in 
 agriculture or otherwise and the provisions of this act are intended 
 to provide additional facilities therefor. 
 
 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 *So in original. 
 
 IX. ADMINISTRATION ACT. 
 
 Chapter 218 of the Laws of 1906. 
 
 Approved by Governor Higgins, April 12, 1906. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the administration of the New York state 
 college of agriculture at Cornell university. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as folloivs: 
 
 Section i. The State college of agriculture, established by chap- 
 ter six hundred and fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and 
 four, shall be known as the New York state college of agriculture at 
 Cornell university. The object of said college of agriculture shall be 
 to improve the agricultural methods of the state ; to develop the agri- 
 cultural resources of the state in the production of crops of all kinds, 
 in the rearing and breeding of live-stock, in the manufacture, of 
 dairy and other products, in determining better methods of handling 
 and marketing such products, and in other ways; and to increase 
 intelligence and elevate the standards of living in the rural districts. 
 For the attainment of these objects the college is authorized to give 
 instruction in the sciences, arts and practices relating thereto, in 
 such courses and in such manner as shall best serve the interests of 
 the state; to conduct extension work in disseminating agricultural 
 
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 knowledge throughout the state by means, of experiments and dem- 
 onstrations on farms and gardens, investigations of the economic 
 and social status of agriculture, lectures, publication of bulletins and 
 reports, and in such other ways as may be deemed advisable in the 
 furtherance of the aforesaid objects ; to make researches in the physi- 
 cal, chemical, biological and other problems of agriculture, the appli- 
 cation of such investigations to the agriculture of New York, and 
 the publication of the results thereof. All buildings, furniture, appar- 
 atus and other property heretofore or hereafter erected or furnished 
 hy the state for such college of agriculture shall be and remain the 
 property of the state. The Cornell university shall have the cus- 
 tody and control of said property, and shall, with whatever state 
 moneys may be received for the purpose, administer the said college 
 of agriculture, with authority to appoint investigators, teachers and 
 other officers and employees, to lay out lines of investigation, to 
 prescribe the requirements for admission and the course of study 
 and with such other power and authority as may be necessary and 
 proper for the due administration of such college of agriculture. 
 Said university shall receive no income, profit or compensation 
 therefor, but all moneys received from state appropriations for the 
 5aid college of agriculture or derived from other sources in the 
 course of the administration thereof, shall be credited by said univer- 
 sity to a separate fund, and shall be used exclusively for said New 
 York state college of agriculture. Such moneys as may be appro- 
 priated to be paid to the Cornell university by the state in any year, 
 to be expended by said iiniversity in the administration of said col- 
 lege of agriculture, shall be payable to the treasurer of Cornell uni- 
 versity in three equal payments to be made on the first day of Octo- 
 ber, the first day of January, and the first day of April in such 
 year, and within sixty days after the expiration of the period for 
 which each instalment is received the said university shall furnish 
 tlie comptroller vouchers approved by the commissioner of agricul- 
 ture for the expenditures of such instalment. The said university 
 shall expend sucJi moneys and use such property of the state in 
 administering said college of agriculture as above provided, and 
 
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 shall report to the commissioner of agriculture in each year on or 
 before the first day of December, a detailed statement of such 
 expenditures and of the general operations of the said college of agri- 
 culture for the year ending the thirtieth day of September then next 
 preceding. Fees and charges in said college of agriculture shall be 
 fixed by Cornell university, and the moneys received from these 
 sources and from the sales of products shall be credited to a separate 
 fund and shall be used for the current expenses of the said college 
 of agriculture. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 X. CLAUSE IN THE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1906. 
 
 For the state college of agriculture at Cornell university for the 
 promotion of agricultural knowledge throughout the state as pro- 
 vided by chapter four hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen 
 hundred and ninety-nine, and for the maintenance, equipment and 
 necessary material to conduct the college of agriculture, one hun- 
 dred thousand dollars ($100,000), payable to the treasurer of Cor- 
 nell university on the warrant of the comptroller. 
 
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