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CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION 
 
 VOLUME XI NUMBER D 
 
 LAWS RELATING 
 
 TO 
 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 MAY 15, 1920 
 
 PUBLISHED BY CORHELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 ITHACA, NEW YORK 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Land-Grant Act of 1862 (Morrill Act) 3 
 
 Acceptance of the Morrill Act 5 
 
 Acceptance of the Morrill Act (continued) 6 
 
 Charter of Cornell University with Amendments as Re- 
 corded in Article 40 of the 1910 Education Law. . .. 7 
 
 Act of 1887 Establishing Agricultural Experiment Stations 
 (Hatch Act) ; 14 
 
 Acceptance of the Hatch Act 16 
 
 Act Applying to Cornell University the Benefits of the 
 Hatch Act 17 
 
 Congressional Industrial Fund (Second Morrill Act) 17 
 
 Amendment Making a Portion of the Appropriation Under 
 the Hatch Act Payable to the New York State Experi- 
 ment Station at Geneva 19 
 
 Nixon Act for the Promotion of Agricultural Knowledge . . 22 
 
 Establishment of the New York State College of Agriculture 23 
 
 Administration Act 24 
 
 Act of 1906 for the Further Endowment of Agricultural Ex- 
 periment Stations (Adams Act) 26 
 
 Resolution Accepting the Funds Appropriated by the 
 Adams Act 27 
 
 Clause in the 1906 Appropriation Act 28 
 
 Act of 1914 Providing for Cooperative Extension Work 
 
 (Smith-Lever Act) 28 
 
 Concurrent Resolutions Accepting the Smith-Lever Act . . 30 
 
 The Smith-Hughes Law for the Training of Teachers in 
 Agricultiire and Home Economics 31 
 
 Farm Bureau Law 39 
 
LAND-GRANT ACT OF 1862 
 
 [First Morrill Act] 
 
 An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges 
 for the Benefit ot 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 mentioned, an amount of public land, to be ap-' 
 portioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each 
 Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively 
 entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: 
 Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the pro- 
 visions of this act. 
 
 Section 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 in which there 
 is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar 
 and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State' may be entitled under 
 the provisions of this act, land 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. 
 
 Section 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 the treasury of said States, so that the entire 
 proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be appUed without any diminution 
 whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 Section 4 (original). And be it further enacted. That all moneys derived 
 from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are ap- 
 portioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided 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 
 
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 in section five of this act,) and the interest of which shall be inviolably ap- 
 propriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, 
 to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where 
 the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical 
 studies, and including military tactics, 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. 
 
 > Section 4 (as amended Mar. 3, 1883). 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 provided for, shall be invested 
 in stocks of the United States or of the States, or some other safe stocks; or 
 the same may be invested by the States having no State stocks in any other 
 manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto, and 
 engaged that such funds shall yield not less than five per centum upon the 
 amount so invested and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unim- 
 paired: Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a 
 perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (ex- 
 cept so far as may be provided in section five of this act), and the interest 
 of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and 
 claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance 
 of at least one college where the leading object shall be without excluding 
 other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, 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 pursuits and professions in life. 
 
 Section 5. And be it further enacted. That the grant of land and land 
 scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, 
 as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the 
 several States shall be signified by legislative acts: 
 
 First. If any portion of the fimd invested, as provided by the foregoing 
 section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or con- 
 tingency, 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 regulariy applied without diminution to the 
 purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not 
 exceedmg ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the 
 provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or 
 experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures 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 toe benefit of the provisions 
 of this act shall provide withm five years, at least not less than one college, 
 as descnbed in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shal 
 
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 cease; and said 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 be valid. 
 
 Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each 
 college, recording any improvemehts and experiments made, with their cost 
 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 railroad grants, they shall be 
 computed to the States at the maximum price and the number of acres pro- 
 portionally diminished. 
 
 Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection 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. 
 
 Section 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. 
 
 Section 7. And be it further enacted. That the land officers shall receive 
 the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act 
 as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under 
 existing laws; Provided, their maximum compensation shall not be thereby 
 increased. 
 
 Section 8. And be it further enacted. That the 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 dis- 
 posed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been 
 made of the proceeds. 
 
 Approved by President Lincoln, July 2, 1862 (12 Statutes at Large, 503V 
 
 ACCEPTANCE OP THE MORRILL ACT 
 
 An act declaring the acceptance by this State, of the provisions of an act of the congress of the 
 United States, 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," approved 
 second July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Passed March 4, 1863. 
 
 The People of ike State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The State of New York, by its legislature, hereby declares 
 its acceptance of the provisions of an act passed by the congress of the United 
 States, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several states and ter- 
 ritories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 
 mechanic arts," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and 
 the governor is hereby authorized to give such notice of the said acceptance 
 as may be proper. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1863, chapter 20) 
 
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 ACCEPTANCE OF THE MORRILL ACT 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 An act relative to the lands granted to this State by the act of Congress entitled "■'^,2^' ^onating 
 public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges '"V.&Jir ?wn 
 of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved second July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 and authorizing the sale thereof, and the investment of the proceeds of such sales. 
 
 Passed May 5, 1863; three-fifths bemg present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The comptroller of this State is hereby authorized to receive 
 from the proper authorities of the United States, the land scrip to be issued 
 for the lands granted to this State by the act of congress, approved July second, 
 eighteen hundred 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," and to give all necessary receipts or 
 acknowledgments for the scrip which may be so received by him. 
 
 § 2. The said comptroller is hereby authorized, by and with the approval 
 and concurrence of the Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General, Treasurer 
 and Chancellor of the University from time to time as he may deem 
 proper, to sell the said land scrip, or any part thereof, for cash or for 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 to execute 
 all necessary and proper transfers thereof. But no such scrip shall be trans- 
 ferred or delivered to any purchaser thereof until the same shall have been 
 fully paid for, or until payment thereof shall be fully secured by collaterals 
 of such stock as above specified. 
 
 § 3. The comptroller shall make all such arrangements, employ such 
 agents, and adopt such measures, in all respects, as he may deem most 
 expedient for effecting a judicious sale of the said land scrip; and the treasurer, 
 on the warrant of the comptroller, shall, from time to time, pay out any moneys 
 in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, all the expenses of management 
 and superintendence, and taxes, if any, from the selection of said lands pre- 
 viously to their sale; and all expenses incurred in the management and dis- 
 bursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, and of all inci- 
 dental matters connected with or arising out of the care, management, and 
 sale of the said lands; so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands 
 shall be applied, without any diminution whatever, to the purposes men- 
 tioned in the said act of congress. 
 
 § 4. The moneys which may be received on the sale of the said lands 
 or land scrip, shall, from time to time, and as often as there shall be a sufficient 
 accumulation for that purpose, be invested by the comptroller, in stocks of 
 the United States, or of this State, or in some other safe stocks, yielding not 
 less than five per centum per annum on the par value of said stocks; and the 
 money so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which 
 shall remain forever undiminished, except as provided for in and by the said 
 act of Congress. 
 
 § 5. The comptroller shall keep separate books of account in his office 
 of all matters relating to the said land scrip and lands, and the care, 
 management, sale and disposition thereof, and of the investment of the moneys 
 
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 derived from the sale- of the said lands and land scrip, and of the manner in 
 which the income of the said fund may be disposed of, pursuant to any act 
 of the legislature authorizing the application thereof, in conformity with the 
 provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid. 
 
 § 6. The comptroller in his annual report to the legislature shall state the 
 condition and amount of the said fund, the expenditures on account thereof, 
 and all his proceedings and acts in regard thereto. 
 
 § 7. All moneys received by the comptroller under the provisions of this 
 act, shall be forthwith deposited by him in the treasury of this State, as a 
 trust fund, with which a special ofifice and bank account shall be kept 
 by the treasurer, so that the said moneys shall not be intermingled with the 
 ordinary funds of the State, and the said moneys shall be paid out by the 
 treasurer, from time to time, on the warrant of the comptroller, when re- 
 quired by him for the purposes of being invested as hereinbefore mentioned. 
 
 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1863, chapter 460) 
 
 CHAPTER 16 OF CONSOLIDATED LAWS— EDUCATION LAW 
 ARTICLE 40— CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 Section 1030 Cornell university continued 
 
 1031 Trustees; election of trustees 
 
 1032 Extent of farm and grounds ; special constables 
 
 1033 Object and powers of the corporation 
 
 1034 Extent to which property may be held 
 
 1035 Trustees shall make reports; university subject to visita- 
 
 tion of regents. 
 
 1036 Restrictions on alienation of property 
 
 1037 State scholarships at Cornell university 
 
 1038 New York state veterinary college 
 
 1039 New York state college of agriculture 
 
 Section 1030. Cornell university continued. The corporation known 
 as Cornell University, located at Ithaca, is continued with all the rights, 
 and subject to all the liabilities contained in the act of incorporation, being 
 laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, chapter five hundred and eighty- 
 five, as amended. 
 
 § 1031. Trustees; election of trustees. 1. The members of the board 
 of trustees of said Cornell University shall hereafter be made up and consti- 
 tuted as follows: the governor, the lieutenant-governor, the speaker of the 
 house of assembly, the commissioner of education, the president of the state 
 agricultural society, the commissioner of agriculture, the librarian of the 
 Cornell library, and the president of the said university shall be trustees 
 thereof ex-officio; and the eldest lineal male descendant of Ezra Cornell shall be a 
 trustee thereof during his life. To fill the vacancies in the board existing among 
 the elective trustees prior to this enactment, the governor shall appoint five trus- 
 tees subject to confirmation by the senate, one of whom shall be appointed to 
 serve for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years. 
 
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 and one for five years, the term of office of each of whom shall commence at 
 the beginning of the commencement week next succeeding his appointment. 
 Prior to the expiration of the term of office of the trustee appointed for one 
 year as above provided and annually thereafter, the governor shall appoint, 
 subject to confirmation by the senate, one trustee for the term of five 
 years, whose term of office shall begin at the expiration of the term 
 of the retiring trustee. In the event of a vacancy occurring among 
 the trustees appointed by the governor, by death or otherwise, the 
 governor, subject to confirmation by the senate, as provided afore- 
 said, shall appoint a trustee to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. 
 There shall also be twenty-six elective trustees, fifteen of whom shall, be elected 
 by the board of trustees, and ten by the alumni of said university, and one 
 each year by the executive committee of the New York State Grange to be 
 elected at the time of the annual meeting of said grange, such trustee so elected 
 to be elected for a term of one year, his term of office to commence at the 
 beginning of the first commencement week subsequent to his election; but 
 at no time shall a majority of the board be of any one religious sect or of no 
 religious sect. 
 
 2. The board of trustees shall elect each year three trustees, and as many 
 more as may be necessary to fill vacancies, among members elected by them 
 caused by resignation or death. The alumni of said university shall meet 
 annually in Ithaca, on the day within the seven days before commencement, 
 designated by the directors of the Associate Alumni of Cornell University 
 at their regular preceding November meetjing. In case the directors at such 
 meeting fail to designate a day, the meeting shall be had upon the same day 
 prior to commencement as that on which it was held in the preceding year. 
 At the meeting of the alumni at each annual commencement said alumni 
 shall elect two trustees, and as many more as may be necessary to fill vacancies 
 arising from resignations or deaths among the number previously elected by 
 them. Except as herein otherwise provided the term of office of each elective 
 trustee shall be five years from the annual commencement at which he is 
 elected; but if elected by the board of trustees at a meeting thereof during 
 the academic year, his term shall then be five years firom the commencement 
 immediately preceding his election; but every trustee shall hold over until 
 his successor is elected or appointed as above provided. 
 
 3. The election of trustees by the board shall be by ballot, and fifteen 
 ballots shall concur before anyone is elected; and twelve shall constitute a 
 quorum for the transaction of business. Who shall be alumni of said univer- 
 sity shall be prescribed by its board of trustees. The election of trustees by 
 the alumni shall be by ballot, and shall be conducted in the following manner 
 and under the following provisions: A register of the signature and address of 
 each of the said alumni of the said university shall be kept by the treasurer 
 of the said university at his business office. Any ten or more alumni may 
 file with the treasurer, on or before the first day of April in each year written 
 nominations of the trustees to be elected by the alumni at the next commence 
 ment. Forthwith after such first day of April a list of such candidates shall 
 be mailed by said treasurer to each of the alumni at his address Such list 
 shall state the vacancies, if any, then existing in the alumni membership of 
 
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 the board of trustees; and the vacancies that will occur by expiration of term 
 at the next ensuing commencement. Each alumnus may vote by transmitted 
 ballot for trustees to be elected by the alumni at any commencement, in ac- 
 cordance with such regulations as to the method and time of voting as may 
 be prescribed by the alumni and approved by the trustees of the university 
 or its executive committee. The candidates to th^ extent of the number of 
 places to be filled, having the highest number of votes upon the first ballot 
 shall be declared elected, provided that each of said candidates has received 
 the votes of at least one-third of all the alumni voting at said election. Of 
 the alumni trustees thus elected, the two receiving the highest number of 
 votes shall fill the vacancies occurring by expiration of term; the others thus 
 elected shall be allotted to fill vacancies, if any, existing otherwise than by 
 expiration of term; the order of allotment to be in the order of the number 
 of votes cast, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes to be al- 
 lotted the longer unexpired term; but if there shall be a failure to fill all 
 or one or more of the vacancies, caused by expiration of term or otherwise, 
 by reason of the fact that one or more candidates having the highest number 
 of votes as above fail to receive the votes of at least one-third of the alumni 
 voting, then and in that event such vacancies shall be filled by the alumni 
 personally present at said meeting, the election being limited to candidates 
 not elected on the first ballot, if there is a sufficient number thereof, having 
 the highest pluralities, not exceeding two candidates for each place thus to 
 be filled. If any vacancy occur in the alumni membership of the board of 
 trustees, between the last day fixed herein for the filing of nominations with 
 the university treasurer, and the time of the annual meeting of the alnmni, 
 herein prqvided for, then such vacancy shall not be filled for the unexpired 
 term until the next following year, and shall then be filled by nomination and 
 election in the manner hereinbefore prescribed for the election of alumni 
 trustees. 
 
 § 1032. Extent of farm and grounds ; special constables. The farm 
 and grounds occupied by said corporation, whereupon its buildings are 
 erected, or shall be erected in such manner and to such extent as the trustees 
 may from time to time direct and provide for, shall consist of not less than 
 two hundred acres. For the' protection of the grounds, farm buildings and 
 property of the university, the supervisor of the town of Ithaca may appoint, 
 upon tjie recommendation of the board of trustees of said Cornell university, 
 not more than three suitable persons, as special constables, who shall have 
 and exercise within the boundaries of such university grounds, the powers 
 and duties of constables of towns, and whose compensation shall be regulated 
 and paid by said board of trustees of the university.' 
 
 § 1033. Objects and powers of the corporation. The leading object of 
 said corporation shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to 
 agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics, in order to promote 
 the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pur- 
 suits and professions of life. But such other branches of science and knowl- 
 edge may be embraced in the plan of instruction and investigation pertaining 
 to the university as the trustees may deem useful and proper. Said university 
 is authorized to establish faculties, departments and branches and carry on 
 
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 its work at any places in this state and to confer any and all literary, scientific, 
 technical and professional degrees, and in testimony thereof award certificates 
 and diplomas, Persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious 
 denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments. 
 
 § 1034. Extent to which property may be held. The said corpora- 
 tion may take and hold real and personal property to such an amount as 
 may be or become necessary for the proper conduct and support of the several 
 departments of education heretofore established or hereafter to be established 
 by its board of trustees, and such property real and personal as has been, or 
 may hereafter be given to said corporation by gift, grant, devise or bequest 
 in trust or otherwise, for the use and purposes permitted by its charter, and 
 in cases of trusts so created, the several trust estates shall be kept distinct, 
 and the interest or income shall be faithfully applied to the purposes of such 
 trust, in accordance with the provisions of the act or instrument by which the 
 respective trusts were created. 
 
 § 1035. Trustees shall make reports; university subject to visitation 
 of regents. The trustees of said university shall make all the reports 
 and perform such other ^cts as may be necessary to conform to the act of 
 congress, 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," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. The 
 said university shall be subject to visitation of the regents of the university 
 of the state of New York. 
 
 § ^1036. Restrictions on alienation of property. The said univer- 
 sity grounds, farm, work-shops, fixtures, machinery, apparatus, cabinets and 
 library, shall not be incumbered, aliened or otherwise disposed of by the said 
 trustees, or by any other person, except on terms such as the legislature of 
 the state of New York shall have approved, and any act of the said trustees, 
 or that of any other person which shall have that effect, shall be void. 
 
 § 1037. State scholarships iu Cornell university. The several depart- 
 ments of study in Cornell University shall be open to applicants for admis- 
 sion thereto at the lowest rates of expense consistent with its welfare and 
 efficiency, and without distinction as to rank, class, previous occupation 
 or locality. But, with a view to equalize its advantages to all parts of the 
 state, the institution shall receive students to the number of one each year 
 from each assembly district in this state, to be selected as hereinafter provided, 
 and shall give them instruction in any or in all the prescribed branches of 
 study in any department of said institution, free of any tuition fee or any in- 
 cidental charges to be paid to said university, unless such incidental charges 
 shall have been made to compensate for materials consumed by said students 
 or for damages needlessly or purposely done by them to the property of said 
 university. The said free instruction shall, moreover, be accorded to said 
 students in consideration of their superior ability, and as a reward for superior 
 scholarship in the academies and public schools of this state. Said students 
 shall be selected as the legislature may from time to time direct and until 
 otherwise ordered as follows: ' 
 
 1. A competitive examination, under the direction of the education de- 
 partment, shall be held at the county court-house in each county of the state. 
 
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 upon the first Saturday in June, in each year, by the city superintendents 
 and the school commissioners of the county. 
 
 2. None but pupils of at least sixteen years of age and of six months' 
 standing in the common schools or academies of the state, during the year 
 immediately preceding the examination shall be eligible. 
 
 3. Such examination shall be upon subjects designated by thd president 
 of the university and upon question papers prepared under the direction of 
 the commissioner of education. 
 
 4. The city superintendents and school commissioners of each county 
 shall immediately after the close of the examination forward to the commissioner 
 of education all answer papers submitted by candidates in such examination, 
 all statements of candidates and a report of the names of candidates in such 
 form as the commissioner of education shall require. 
 
 5. In case any candidate who may become entitled to a scholarship shall 
 fail to claim the same, or shall fail to pass the entrance examinations at such 
 university, or shall die, resign, absent himself without leave, be expelled or, 
 for any other reason, shall abandon his right to or vacate such scholarship 
 either before or after entering thereupon, then the candidate certified to be 
 next entitled in the same county shall become entitled to the same. In case 
 any scholarship belonging to any county shall not be claimed by any candidate 
 resident in that county, the commissioner of education may fill the same by 
 appointing thereto some candidate first entitled to a vacancy in some other 
 county. In any such case, the president of the university shall at once notify 
 the commissioner of education and that officer shall immediately notify the 
 candidate next entitled to the vacant scholarship of his right to the same. 
 
 6. Any state student who shall make it appear to the satisfaction of 
 the president of the university that he requires leave of absence, for the pur- 
 pose of earning funds with which to defray his living expenses which in at- 
 tendance, may, in the discretion of the president, be granted such leave of 
 absence, and may be allowed a period not exceeding six years from the com- 
 mencement thereof for the completion of his course at said university. 
 
 7. In certifying the qualifications of the candidates, preference shall be 
 given, where other qualifications are equal, to the children of those who have 
 died in the military or naval service of the United States. - 
 
 8. Notices of the , time and place of the examinations shall be given in 
 all the schools having pupils eligible thereto, prior to the first day of January 
 in each year, and shall be published once a week, for three weeks, in at least 
 two newspapers in each county immediately prior to the holding of such exam- 
 inations. The cost of publishing such notices and the necessary expenses of 
 such examination shall be a charge upon each county, respectively, and shall 
 be audited and paid by the board of supervisors thereof. 
 
 9. The commissioner of education shall attend to the giving and pub- 
 lishing of the notices hereinbefore provided for. He may, in his discretion, 
 direct that the examination in any county may be held at some other time and 
 place than that above specified, in which case it shall be held as directed by 
 him. He shall keep full records in his department of all candidates attending 
 such examinations and shall notify candidates of their rights under this chapter. 
 He shall determine any controversies which may arise under the provisions 
 
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 of this chapter. He is hereby charged with the general supervision and direc- 
 tion of all matters in connection with the filling of such scholarships. Students 
 enjoying the privileges of free scholarships shall, in common with the other 
 students of said university, be subject to all the examinations, rules and re- 
 quirements of the board of trustees or faculty of said university, except as 
 herein provided. 
 
 § 1038. New York state veterinary college. 1. The state veterinary 
 college, established by chapter one hundred and fifty-three of the laws of 
 eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall continue to be known as the New York 
 state veterinary college. The object of said veterinary college shall be: To 
 conduct investigations as to the nature, prevention and cure of all diseases 
 of animals, including such as are communicable to man and such as cause 
 epizootics among live stock; to investigate the economical questions which 
 will contribute to the more profitable breeding, rearing and utilization of 
 animals; to produce reliable standard preparations of toxins, antitoxins and 
 other products to be used in the diagnosis, prevention and cure of diseases 
 and in the conducting of sanitary work by approved modern methods; and 
 to give instruction in the normal structure and function of the animal body, 
 in the pathology, prevention and treatment of animal diseases, and in all 
 matters pertaining to sanitary science as applied to live stock and correla- 
 tively to the human family. 
 
 2. All buildings, furniture, apparatus and other property heretofore or 
 hereafter erected or furnished by the state for such veterinary college shall be 
 and remain the property of the state. The Cornell university shall have the 
 custody and control of said property, and shall, with whatever state moneys may 
 be received for the purpose, admininster the said veterinary college, with 
 authority to appoint investigators, teachers and other officers, 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 veterinary college. 
 
 3. Said university shall receive no income, profit or cornpensation therefor, 
 but all moneys received from state appropriations for the said veterinary 
 college or derived from other sources in the course of the administration thereof, 
 shall be kept by said university in a separate fund from the moneys of the 
 university, and shall be used exclusively for said New York state veterinary 
 college. Such moneys as may be appropriated to be paid to the Cornell uni- 
 versity by the state in any year, to be expended by said university in the 
 administration of said veterinary college, shall be payable to the treasurer of 
 Cornell university in three equal payments to be made on the first day of 
 October, the first day of January, and the first day of April in such year, and 
 within thirty days after the expiration of the period for which each instal- 
 ment is received the said university shall furnish the comptroller of the state 
 of New York satisfactory vouchers for the expenditure of such instalment. 
 
 4. The said university shall expend such moneys and use such property 
 of the state in administering said veterinary college, and shall report to the 
 governor during the month of January in each year, a detailed statement of 
 such expenditures and of the general operations of the said veterinary college. 
 
 5. No tuition fee shall be required of a student pursuing the regular 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 13 
 
 veterinary course, who for a year or more immediately preceding his admis- 
 sion to said veterinary college shall have been a resident of this state. The 
 tuition fees charged to other students and all other fees and charges in said 
 veterinary college shall be fixed by Cornell university, and the moneys so 
 received shall be expended for the current expenses of the said veterinary 
 college. 
 
 § 1039. New York state college of agriculture. The state college of 
 agriculture, established by chapter six hundred and fifty-five of the laws 
 of nineteen hundred and four, shall continue to 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 agricultural 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 stkte; to conduct extension work in disseminating 
 agricultural knowledge throughout the state by means of experiments and 
 demonstrations 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 afore- 
 said objects; to make researches in the physical, chemical, biological and other 
 problems of agriculture, the application of such investigations to the agri- 
 culture of New York, and the publication of the results thereof. All buildings, 
 furniture, apparatus and other property heretofore or hereafter erected or 
 furnished by the state for such college of agriculture shall be and remain the 
 property of the state. The Cornell university shall have the custody 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 said college of agriculture 
 or derived from other sources in the course of the administration thereof, 
 shall be credited by said university to a separate fund, and shall be used exclu- 
 sively for said New York state college of agriculture. Such moneys as may be 
 appropriated to be paid to the Cornell university by the state in any year, to 
 be expended by said university in the administration of said college of agri- 
 culture, and shall be payable to the treasurer of Cornell university in three 
 equal payments to be made on the first day of October, the first day of January, 
 and the first day of April in such year, and within sixty days after the expira- 
 tion of the period for which each instalment is received the said university 
 shall furnish the comptroller vouchers approved by the commissioner of agri- 
 culture for the expenditures of such instalment. The said university shall 
 
14 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 expend such moneys and use such property of the state in administering said 
 college of agriculture as above provided, and 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 col- 
 lege of agriculture 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. 
 
 ACT OF 1887 ESTABLISHING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
 
 [Hatch Act] 
 
 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 dif- 
 fusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information 
 on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investiga- 
 tion and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural 
 science, there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges 
 or agricultural department 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 hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An 
 act donating pubhc lands to the several States and Territories which may pro- 
 vide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of 
 the supplements 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 established^the appropria- 
 tion hereinafter made to such state or territory shall be equally divided be- 
 tween such colleges, unless the legislature of such State or Territory shall 
 otherwise direct. 
 
 Section 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment sta- 
 tions 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 composition 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 composi- 
 tion of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their 
 comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation 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. 
 
 Section 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of 
 methods and results m the work of said stations, it shall be, the duty of the 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 15 
 
 United States Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practic- 
 able, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; 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 Agricul- 
 ture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 Section 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at 
 said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent 
 to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively 
 located, and to such individuals actually 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. 
 
 Section 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of con- 
 ducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing the re- 
 sults 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 appropriations 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 
 proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly pay- 
 ments, 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 payment to be made on the first day of 
 October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided, however. That out of 
 the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not ex- 
 ceeding 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 appro- 
 priation may be so expended. 
 
 Section 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said sta- 
 tions that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation 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. 
 
 Section 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify 
 the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government 
 of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located. 
 
 Section 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to 
 the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations es- 
 tablished by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized 
 to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established by such States; 
 
16 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 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 distinctively 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 agricultural college, or school, and no legislature shall by con- 
 tract express or implied disable itself from so doing. 
 
 Section 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made 
 subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the 
 purposes of said grants: Provided, That payment of such instalments of the 
 appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the ad- 
 journment of the regular session of its legislature meeting next after the pas- 
 sage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly 
 certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Section 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the 
 United States to continue any payments from the Treasury 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. 
 
 Approved by President Cleveland, March 2, 1887 (24 Statutes at Large, 
 440). 
 
 ACCEPTANCE OF THE HATCH ACT 
 
 Concurrent resolutions relative to' the establishment of agricultural experiment stations n 
 
 connection with colleges 
 
 Whereas, On the second day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty- 
 seven, an act of Congress bfecame law by the signature of the President of the 
 United States, entitled "An act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations 
 in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the pro- 
 visions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and 
 of the acts supplementary thereto:" 
 
 And WHEREAS, Section nine 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"; therefore 
 
 1. Revived, That the people of New York represented in Senate and 
 Assembly do hereby give their assent to the purpose of said grants in accord- 
 ance with the provisions and requirements, of said act; 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is directed to 
 forward a copy of this concurrent resolution duly certified to the Secretary 
 of the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK STATE OF NEW YORK 
 
 In Assembly, March 30th, 1887. In Senate, March 28th, 1887 
 
 The foregoing resolution was duly The foregoing resolution 'was duly 
 
 passed. passed. 
 
 By order of the Assembly. By order of the Senate 
 
 C. A. Chickering, Clerk. John W. Vrooman, Clerk. 
 (Laws of New York, 1887, page 943) 
 
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 ACT APPLYING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY THE BENEFITS 
 
 OF THE HATCH ACT 
 
 An act to apply to the Cornell University the benefits of the act of Congress of the United States, 
 approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "Ai»^ct to 
 establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the 
 several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto." 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The Cornell University is hereby designated by this State 
 as the college within the State solely entitled to receiye the benefits of the act 
 of Congress of the United States approved March second, one thousand eight 
 hundred and" eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish agricultural experi- 
 ment 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." All benefits of said act 
 which this State is authorized to apply to any college, institution or agricul- 
 tural experiment station within this State are hereby applied to the agri- 
 cultural experiment station established under the direction of the Cornell 
 University, and this State hereby consents that all appropriations, moneys or 
 benefits to or for the benefit of this State or any institution within this State, 
 payable under or in pursuance of said act of Congress, shall be paid to the 
 officer of the Cornell University designated to receive the same in accordance 
 with said act, to be expended as in said act provided. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved by Governor Hill, June 15, 1889. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1889, chapter 538) 
 
 CONGRESSIONAL INDUSTRIAL FUND OR 
 
 SECOND MORRILL ACT 
 
 An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public 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 enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales 
 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 estabhshed, 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 hundred and 
 ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter 
 for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding 
 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 agri- 
 culture, 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 to the facilities for such in- 
 struction: Provided, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any 
 
18 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 State or Territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a dis- 
 tinction of race or color is made in the admission of students, but the estab- 
 lishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored 
 students shall be held to be a compliance 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 
 estabhshed 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 estabhshed, and is 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 divided into two parts and paid 
 accordingly, and thereupon such institution for colored students shall be en- 
 titled to the benefits of this act and subject 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. 
 
 Section 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Terri- 
 tories 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 Treas- 
 ury 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 institu- 
 tion for colored students, immediately pay 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 Agriculture 
 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 dis- 
 bursement. The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject 
 to the legislative assent pf the several States and Territories to the purpose of 
 said grants: Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropria- 
 tion herein made as shall become due to any state before the adjournment 
 of the regular session of 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. 
 
 Section 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 mamtenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored students, 
 as provided m 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 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 19 
 
 be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the pur- 
 chase, 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 con- 
 dition 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 act. 
 
 Section 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 ascertain and certify to 
 the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is en- 
 titled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of insti- 
 tutions for colored students, 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 appropriation the facts 
 and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount in- 
 volved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Con- 
 gress, 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. 
 
 Section 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to 
 Congress the disbursements which have been made in all the States and Ter- 
 ritories, and also whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been 
 withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor. 
 
 Section 6. Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or 
 all of the provisions of this act. 
 
 Approved by President Harrison, August 30, 1890. 
 
 (26 Statutes at Large, 417) 
 
 AMENDMENT MAKING A PORTION OF THE APPROPRIATION 
 
 UNDER THE HATCH ACT PAYABLE TO THE NEW YORK 
 
 STATE EXPERIMENT STATION AT GENEVA 
 
 An act to amend the agricultural law, in relation to agricultural experiment stations within 
 this state, and to make an appropriation therefor. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Sections eighty-five and eighty-seven of chapter three hun- 
 dred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, en- 
 ticed "An act in relation to agriculture, constituting articles one, two, three, 
 four and five of chapter thirty-three of the general laws," are hereby amended 
 to read as follows: 
 
 § 85. The New York Agricultural Experiment Station. The institution 
 known as the New Yoric Agricultural Experiment Station, established in" the 
 village of Geneva, for the purpose of promoting agriculture in its varibus 
 
20 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 branches by scientific investigation and experiment shall continue under the 
 control and management of a board of trustees. Such board of trustees shall 
 be known as the board of control of the state experiment station and shall 
 consist of nine members to be appointed by the governor whose term of office 
 shall be three years. The governor shall be a member of the board by virtue 
 of his office. Such board of control shall annually elect a president from their 
 own number and appoint a secretary and treasurer to hold their offices during 
 the pleasure of the board. Such board of control shall have general manage- 
 ment of the station and shall appoint a director to have oversight and manage- 
 ment of the experiments and investigations which shall be necessary to ac- 
 complish the objects of' said institution, and may employ competent and suita- 
 ble chemists and other persons necessary for carrying on the work of the station. 
 Such board shall have the direction of the expenditure of all moneys appro- 
 priated to the institution and annually, on or before the first day of December, 
 make a full report to the commissioner of agriculture of their proceedings, 
 receipts and expenditures, for the year ending with the thirtieth day of Sep- 
 tember then next preceding. No member shall receive any compensation 
 for his services as such, but shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses 
 and those expenses incurred by him by an actual attendance upon the meetings 
 of such board. The board shall make such rules and regulations, subject to 
 the approval of the commissioner of agriculture, as may from time to time 
 become necessary to carry out the objects of the station. Such experiment 
 station may, with the consent and approval Of the commissioner of agriculture, 
 appoint agricultural experts to assist such experiment station, in the second 
 judicial department, in conducting scientific investigations and experiments 
 in agriculture; in disseminating agricultural knowledge by means of lectures 
 or otherwise; 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 agricultural 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 agri- 
 culture. All of such work by such experiment station and by such experts 
 shall be under the general supervision and direction of the commissioner of 
 agriculture. 
 
 § 87. The Cornell university and the agricultural experiment station at 
 Geneva, established by the laws of the state, are hereby designated as the 
 institutions within this state entitled to receive such portion as the 
 legislature shall determine of the benefits of the act of the 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 established in the several states, under the provisions of an 
 act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the icts 
 supplementary thereto." Such benefits of such acts which this state is au- 
 thorized thereby to apply to any college, institution or agricultural experi- 
 ment station within this state, are applied to the agricultural experiment 
 station established under the direction of Cornell university and the agri- 
 cultural experiment station at Geneva, and this state consents that such ap- 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 21 
 
 propriation, money or benefits to or for the use of this state, or of any insti- 
 tution within this state, payable under or in pursuance of such act of congress, 
 shall be paid, nine-tenths thereof to the treasurer of Cornell university, 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 of its opera- 
 tions, including a statement of its receipts and expenditures for the year 
 ending with the thirtieth day of September then next preceding. Such 
 experiment station may, with the consent and approval of the commissioner 
 of agriculture, appoint horticultural experts to assist such experiment station, 
 in the fifth judicial depiartment, in conducting investigations and experiments 
 in horticulture; in discovering and remedying the disease of plants, vines 
 and fruit trees; in ascertaining the best means of fertilizing vineyard, fruit 
 and garden plantations,- and of making orchards, vineyards and gardens pro- 
 lific; 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 horticultural 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^f agriculture. All 
 of such work by such experiment station and by such experts shall be under 
 the general supervision and direction of the commissioner of agriculture. 
 
 § 2. The treasurer of this state shall keep the account of all moneys here- 
 after received by him in pursuance of such act of congress, in a separate 
 fund, to the credit of the Cornell university and the agricultural experiment 
 station at Geneva, in the proportion stated in section one of this act, and shall 
 pay all such moneys immediately upon 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 university 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. 
 
 § 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 Ex- 
 periment Station, at Geneva, for the purpose of agricultural experiments, 
 investigations, instruction and information, in the second judicial depart- 
 ment, pursuant to section eighty-five of the agricultural law, and the sum 
 of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 
 appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, 
 to be paid to the agricultural experiment station at Cornell university, for 
 the purpose of horticultural experiipents, investigations, instruction and in- 
 formation, in the fifth judicial department, pursuant to section eighty-seven 
 of the agricultural law. Such moneys shall be paid by the treasurer upon 
 
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 the warrant of the comptroller, upon vouchers approved by the commis- 
 sioner of agriculture. 
 
 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved by Governor Flower, May 12, 1894. 
 
 ' (Laws of New York, 1894, chapter 675) 
 
 NIXON ACT FOR THE PROMOTION OF 
 
 AGRICULTURAL KNOWLlEDGE 
 
 An act making an Appropriation for the Promotion of Agriculture by the College of Agriculture 
 
 of Cornell University. 
 
 The People oj the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as 'follows: 
 
 Section 1. 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 other- 
 wise appropriated to be paid to the college of agriculture at Cornell univer- 
 sity to be expended in giving instruction throughout the state by means of 
 schools, lectures and other university extension methods, or otherwise, and in 
 conducting investigations and experiments; in discovering 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 knowledge by means of lectures or otherwise; and in preparing 
 and printing for free distribution the results of such investigations and ex- 
 periments; and for republishing such bulletins as may be useful in the further- 
 ance of thp work and such other information as may be deemed desirable 
 and 'profit£(ble 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 
 help may be removed by the college of agriculture in its discretion; 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 commissioner 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 of 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. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved by Governor Roosevelt, April 25, 1899. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1899, chapter 430) 
 
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 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW YORK STATE 
 
 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
 
 An act to establish a state college of agriculture at Cornell university and making an 
 appropriation therefor. 
 
 The People oj the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. 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 and investigation in agriculture for the 
 state, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary, 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 agriculture 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 agri- 
 cultural machinery, a stock judging pavilion and a horti/:ultural 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. Up)on the expenditure of forty thousand dollars by the university for 
 said new dairy building, this appropriation shall be applicable, so far as neces- 
 sary 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 con- 
 veyed 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 the 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 college. 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. 
 But in that case such reversion to the university shall be conditioned upon 
 the payment by the university to the state of the then duly appraised value 
 of all such buildings. 
 
 § 2. The amount hereby appropriated shall be paid by the treasurer 
 upon the warrant of the comptroller, upon vouchers approved by the com- 
 missioner of agriculture, to Cornell university 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 
 
24 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 work of construction 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 employment of labor and the purchase of materials in the open market. 
 All expenditures under this act shall be made pursuant to estimates or pur- 
 suant 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 draw- 
 ings 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 with the comptroller. All contracts in an 
 amount less than one thousand dollars need have no surety bond, provided 
 payment is to be, made only after the work is completed and approved. All 
 payments on contracts shall be made on the certificate 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 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 obliga- 
 tions to the state to provide for instruction in agriculture or otherwise and the 
 provisions of this act are intended to provide additional facilities therefor. 
 
 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved by Governor Odell, lylay 9, 1904. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1904, chapter 655) 
 
 ADMINISTRATION ACT 
 
 NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
 
 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 follows: 
 
 Section 1. The state college of agriculture, established by chapter 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 agricultural resources of the state in the produc- 
 tion of crops of all kinds, in the rearing and breeding of live-stock, in the manu- 
 facture of dairy and other products, in determining better methods of handling 
 and marketmg such products, and in other ways^ and to increase intelhgence 
 and elevate the standards of living in the rural districts. For the attainment 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 25 
 
 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 disseminat- 
 ing agricultural knowledge throughout the state by means of experiments and 
 demonstrations 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 afore- 
 said objects; to make researches in the physical, chemical, biological and other 
 problems of agriculture, the application of such investigations to the agri- 
 culture of New York, and the publication of the results thereof. All buildings, 
 furniture, apparatus and other property heretofore or hereafter erected or 
 furnished by the state for such college of agriculture shall be and remain the 
 property of the state. The Cornell university shall have the custody 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 require- 
 ments for admission and the course of study and with such other, 
 power and authority as may be neqessary 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 said 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 appropriated to be paid to 
 the Cornell university by the state in any year, to be expended by said uni- 
 versity in the administration of said college of agriculture, shall be payable 
 to the treasurer of Cornell university in three equal payments to be made 
 on the first day of October, 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 the comptroller 
 vouchers approved by the commissioner of agriculture for the expenditures 
 of such instalment. The said university shall expend such moneys and use 
 sifch property of the state in administering said college of agriculture as above 
 provided, and 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 agriculture 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. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved by Governor Higgins, April 12, 1906. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1906, chapter 218) 
 
26 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 ACT OF 1906 FOR THE FURTHER ENDOWMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 
 EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
 
 [Adams Act] 
 
 An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations 
 and for 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 endowment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations 
 now established 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 an- 
 nual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be thirty 
 thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of (ion- 
 ducting original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural 
 industry of the United States, having due regard to the varying conditions and 
 needs of the respective States or Territories. 
 
 Section 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Terri- 
 tories for the further endowment and support of agricultural experiment 
 stations shall be annually 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 officer duly appointed by the 
 governing boards 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 prescribed by the Secretary 
 of Agriculture. The grants of money authorized by this Act are made subject 
 to legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said 
 grants: Provided, That payment of such installments of the appropriation 
 herein made as shall become due to any State or Territory before the adjourn- 
 ment of the regular session of 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. 
 
 Section 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 agricultural experiment stations as provided in 
 this Act shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost or be mis- 
 applied, 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 ghall be applied, directly or indirectly, 
 under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or re- 
 pair of any building or buildings, or to the purchase or rental of land. It shall 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 27 
 
 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 lo- 
 cated a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of re- 
 ceipts 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. 
 
 Section 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 Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is com- 
 plying with the provisions of this Act and is entitled to receive its share of the 
 annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations under this Act and 
 the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. If the 
 Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold a certificate from any State or Terri- 
 tory of its appropriation, 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 Co'ngiress, in order that the State or Territory may, 
 if it shall so desirg , 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 be covered into the Treasury; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby 
 charged with the proper administration of this law. 
 
 Section 5. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report 
 to congress on the receipts and expenditures and work of the agricultural -ex- 
 periment stations in all of the States and Territories, and also whether the ap- 
 propriation of any State or Territory has been withheld, and if so, the reason 
 therefor. 
 
 Section 6. That Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any 
 or all of the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Approved by President Roosevelt, March 16, 1906. 
 
 (34 Statutes at Large, chapter 951) 
 
 RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED 
 
 BY THE ADAMS ACT 
 
 Concurrent Resolution relative to providing for increased appropriation to the agricultural 
 experiment stations in connection with colleges 
 
 Whereas, 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 for 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 provided 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 
 
28 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 Senate and Assembly, do hereby give their assent to the purpose of said ad- 
 ditional grants in accordance with the provisions 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 Agricultural 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 laws of the State of New York. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is directed to for- 
 ward a copy of this concurrent resolution; duly certified to the Secretary of 
 the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 CLAUSE IN THE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1906 
 
 For the state college .of agriculture at Cornell university for the pro- 
 motion of agricultural knowledge throughout the state as provided 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 hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), payable to the 
 treasurer of Cornell university on the warrant of the comptroller. 
 
 Approved by Governor Higgins, May 31, 1906. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1906, page 1819) 
 
 ACT OF 1914 PROVIDING FOR COOPERATIVE 
 EXTENSION WORK 
 
 [Smith-Lever Act] 
 
 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, eight- 
 een hundred and sixty-two, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States De- 
 partment of Agriculture. 
 
 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 diffusing among 
 the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects 
 relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the applicatiqn 
 of the same, there may be inaugurated in connection with the college or col- 
 leges in each State now receiving, or which may hereafter receive, the benefits 
 of the Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred 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" (Twelfth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and three), and of the 
 Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety 
 (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and seventeen and chapter 
 eight hundred and forty-one), agricultural extension work which shall be car- 
 ried on in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture: 
 Provided, That in any state in which two or more such colleges have been 
 or hereafter may be established the appropriations hereinafter made to such 
 state shall be administered by such college or colleges as. the legislature of 
 such State may direct: Provided further. That, pending the inauguration and 
 development of the cooperative extension work herein authorized, nothing 
 in this Act shall be construed to discontinue either the farm management work 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 29 
 
 or the farmers' cooperative demonstration work as now conducted by the 
 Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. 
 
 Section 2. That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist 
 of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and 
 home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the 
 several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said sub- 
 jects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise; and this 
 work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by 
 the Secretary of Agriculture and the State agricultural college or colleges 
 receiving the benefits of this Act. 
 
 Section 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of said coopera- 
 tive agricultural extension work and the necessary printing and distributing 
 of inforrnation in connection with the same, there is permanently appropriated, 
 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
 $480,000 for each year, $l0,000 of which shall be paid annually, in the manner 
 'hereinafter provided, to each State which shall by action of its legislature 
 assent to the provisions of this Act: Provided, That payment of such install- 
 ments of the appropriation hereinbefore made as shall become due to any 
 State before the adjournment of the regular session of the legislature meeting 
 next after the passage of this Act may, in the absence of prior legislative assent, 
 be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary 
 of the Treasury: Provided further, That there is also appropriated an additional 
 sum of $600,000 for the fiscal year following that in which the foregoing ap- 
 propriation first becomes available, and for each year thereafter for seven 
 years a sum exceeding by $500,000 the sum appropriated for each preceding 
 year, and for each year thereafter there is permanently appropriated for each 
 year the sum of $4,100,000 in addition to the sum of $480,000 hereinbefore 
 provided: Provided further. That before the funds herein appropriated 
 shall become available to any college for any fiscal year, plans for the work 
 to be carried on under this Act shall be submitted by the proper officials of 
 each college and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. Such additional 
 sums shall be used only for the purposes hereinbefore stated, and shall be 
 allotted annually to each State by the Secretary of Agriculture and paid in 
 the manner hereinbefore provided, in the proportion which the rural population 
 of each State bears to the total rural population of all the States, as determined 
 by the next preceding Federal census: Provided further. That no payment 
 out of the additional appropriations herein provided shall be made in any 
 year to any state, until an equal sum has been appropriated for that year by 
 the legislature of such State, or provided by State, county, college, local author- 
 ity, or individual contributions from within the State, for the maintenance 
 of the cooperative agricultural extension work provided for in this Act. 
 
 Section 4. That the sums hereby appropriated for extension work shall 
 be paid in equal semiannual payments on the first day of January and July 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 
 9ther officer of the State duly authorized by the laws of the State to receive 
 the same; and such officer shall be required to report to the Secretary of Agri- 
 culture, on or before the first day of September of each year, a detailed state- 
 
30 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 ment of the amount so received during the previous fiscal year, and of its 
 disbursement, on forms prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
 Section 5. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated 
 officer of any State for the support and maintenance of cooperative agricul- 
 tural extension work, as provided iri this Act, shall by any action or contingency 
 be diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by said State to 
 which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be 
 apportioned or paid to said State, and no portion of said moneys shall be 
 applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair 
 of any building or buildings, or the purchase or rental of land, or in college- 
 course teaching, lectures in colleges, promoting, agricultural trains, or any 
 other purpose not specified in this Act, and not more than five per centum of 
 each annual appropriation shall be applied to the printing and distribution 
 of publications. It shall be the duty of each of said colleges annually, on or 
 before the first day of January, to make to the governor of the State in which 
 it is located a full and detailed report of its operations in the direction of>ex-, 
 tension work as defined in this Act, including a detailed statement of receipts 
 and expenditures from all sources for this purpose, a copy of which report 
 shall be sent to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury of the United States. 
 
 Section 6. 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 Treasury as to each State whether it is entitled to receive 
 its share of the annual appropriation for cooperative agricultural extension 
 work under this Act, and the amount which it is entitled to receive. If the 
 Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold a certificate from any State of its ap- 
 propriation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, 
 and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the expi- 
 ration of the Congress next succeeding a session of the legislature of any State 
 from which a certificate has been withheld, in order that the state may, if it 
 should 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 be covered into the Treasury. 
 
 Section 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual 
 report to Congress of the receipts, expenditures, and results of the cooperative 
 agricultural extension work in all of the States receiving the benefits of this 
 Act, and also whether the appropriation of any State has been withheld; and 
 if so, the reasons therefor. 
 
 Section 8. That Congress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal any 
 or all of the provisions of this Act. 
 • Approved by President Wilson, May 8, 1914. 
 
 (38 Statutes at Large, Chapter 79) 
 
 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS ACCEPTING 
 THE SMITH-LEVER ACT 
 
 Whereas, The Congress of the United States has passed an act approved 
 by the President, May 8, 1914, entitled "An act to provide for co-operative 
 agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 31 
 
 states receiving the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, 
 and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of 
 Agriculture," and 
 
 Whereas, It is provided in section 3 of the act aforesaid, that the grants 
 of money authorized by this act shall be paid annually "to each state which 
 shall by action of its Legislature assent to the provisions of this act," there- 
 fore, be it 
 
 Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the assent of the Legislature of 
 the State of New York be and is hereby given to the provisions and require- 
 ments of said act, and that the trustees of Cornell University be and they are 
 hereby authorized and empowered to receive the grants of money appropriated 
 under said act, and to organize and conduct agricultural extension work which 
 shall be carried on in connection with the New York State College of Agri- 
 culture at Cornell University, in accordance with the terms and conditions 
 expressed in the act of Congress aforesaid. 
 
 By order of the Senate 
 
 In Assembly, April 2nd, 1915. 
 
 (signed) Ernest A. Fay, Clerk. Concurred in without amendment. 
 
 Adopted in Senate March 31st, By order of the Assembly, 
 
 1915. (signed) Fred W. Hammond, Clerk. 
 
 (Senate Journal 1915, vol. 2. (Assembly Journal 1915, vol. 2, 
 
 page 902) ' page 1710) 
 
 THE SMITH- HUGHES* LAW FOR THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS 
 
 IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS 
 
 An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the 
 States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to 
 provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects: 
 and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
 of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby annually appropriated, 
 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sums pro- 
 vided in sections two, three, and four of this Act, to be paid to the respective 
 States for the purpose of cooperating with the States in paying the salaries of 
 teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects, and teachers of 
 trade, home economics, and industrial subjects, and in the preparation of 
 teachers of agricultural, trade, industrial, and home economics subjects; and 
 the sum provided for in section seven for the use of the Federal Board for 
 Vocational Education for the administration of this Act and for the purpose 
 of making studies, investigations, and reports to aid in the organization and 
 conduct of vocational education, which sums shall be expended as hereinafter 
 provided. 
 
 Section 2. That for the purpose of cooperating with the States in pay- 
 ing the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects 
 there is hereby appropriated for the use of the States, subject to the provisions 
 of this Act, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 
 *This act is administered by the State Education Department. It is included here because 
 of its interest in this general connection, and because the State College of Agriculture has been 
 designated by the State Education Department to receive funds for the training of teachers in 
 agriculture and home economics under the provisions of this law. 
 
32 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 eighteen, the sum of $500,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nine- 
 teen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $750,000; for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of $1,000,000; for 
 the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, the 
 sum of $1,250,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and'twenty-two, the sum of $1,500,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 
 nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of $1,750,000; for the fiscal 
 year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the sum of 
 $2,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 twenty-five, the sum of $2,500,000; for the fiscal year finding June thirtieth, 
 nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and annually thereafter, the sum of 
 $3,000,000. Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which 
 their rural population bears to the total rural population in the United States, 
 not including outlying possessions, according to the last preceding United 
 States census: Provided, That the allotment of funds to any State shall be 
 not less than a minimum of $5,000 for any fiscal year prior to and including 
 the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, nor 
 less than $10,000 for any fiscal year thereafter, and there is hereby appropriated 
 the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall be 
 used for the purpose of providing the minimum allotment to the States provided 
 for in this section: For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and eighteen, the sum of $48,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 
 nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $34,000; for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of $24,000; for the 
 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, the sum 
 of $18,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 twenty-two, the sum of $14,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 
 /nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of $11,000; for the fiscal 
 (year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the sum 
 of $9,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 twenty-five, the sum of $34,000; and annually thereafter the sum of $27,000. 
 Section 3. That for the purpose of cooperating with the States in pay- 
 ing the salaries of teachers ofjrade, home economics, and industrial subjects 
 there is hereby appropriated for the use of the States, for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the sum of $500,000; for the 
 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the 
 sum of $750,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and twenty, the sum of $1,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 
 nineteen hundred and twenty-one, the sum of $1,250,000; for the fiscal year 
 ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, the sum of $1,500,000; 
 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three', 
 the sum of $1,750,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and twenty-four, the sum of $2,000,000; for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, the sum of $2,500,000; 
 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, the 
 sum of $3,000,000; and annually thereafter the sum of $3,000,000. Said 
 sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their urban popula- 
 tion bears to the total urban population in the United States, not including 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 33 
 
 outlying possessions, according to the last preceding United States census: 
 Provided, That the allotment of funds to any State shall be not less than a 
 minimum of $5,000 for any fiscal year prior to and including the fiscal year 
 ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, nor less than 
 $10,000 for any fiscal year thereafter, and there is hereby appropriated the 
 following sums, or so much thereof as may be needed, which shall be used for 
 the purpose of providing the minimum allotment to the States provided for 
 in this section: For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
 and eighteen, the sum of $66,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, . 
 nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $46,000; for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of $34,000; for the 
 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, the sum 
 of $28,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 twenty-two, the sum of $25,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 
 nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of $22,000; for the fiscal year 
 ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the sum of $19,000; 
 -for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, 
 the sum of $56,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun- 
 dred and twenty-six, and annually thereafter, the sum pf $50,000. 
 
 That not more than twenty per centum of the money appropriated under 
 this Act for the payment of salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and 
 industrial subjects, for any year, shall be expended for the salaries of teachers 
 of home economics subjects. 
 
 Section 4. That for the purpose of cooperating with the States in pre- 
 paring teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects and teachers 
 of trade and industrial and home economics subjects there is hereby appro- 
 priated for the use of the States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nine- 
 teen hundred and eighteen, the sum of $500,000; for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen .hundred and nineteen, the sum of $700,000; for the 
 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of 
 $900,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 twenty-one, and annually thereafter, the sum of $1,000,000. Said sums 
 shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population 
 bears to the total population of the United States, not including 
 outlying possessions, according to the last preceding United States cen- 
 sus: Provided, That the allotment of funds to any State shall be 
 not less than a minimum of $5,000 for . any fiscal year prior to 
 and including the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun- 
 dred and nineteen, nor less .than $10,000 for any fiscal year thereafter. 
 And there is hereby appropriated the following sums, or so much thereof as 
 may be needed, which shall be used for the purpose of providing the minimum 
 allotment provided for in this section: For the fiscal year ending June thirj^ieth, 
 nineteen hundred and eighteen, the sum of $46,000; for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth', nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $32,000; for the 
 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of 
 $24,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 twenty-one, and annually thereafter, the sum of $90,000. 
 
 Section 5. That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriations 
 
34 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY ^ 
 
 provided for in sections two, three, and four of this Act, any State shall, through 
 the legislative authority thereof, accept the provisions of this Act and' designate 
 or create a State board, consisting of not less than three members, and havihg 
 all necessary power to cooperate, as herein provided, with the Federal Board 
 for Vocational Education in the administration of the provisions of this Act. 
 The State board of education, or other board having charge of the adminis- 
 tration of public education in the State, or any State board haying charge of 
 the administration of any kind of vocational education in the State may, if 
 • the State so elect, be designated as the State board, for the purposes of this 
 Act. 
 
 In any State the legislature of which does not meet in nineteen hundred 
 and seventeen, if the governor of that State, so far as he is authorized to do 
 so, shall accept the provisions of this Act and designate or create a State board 
 of not less than three members to act in cooperation with the Federal Board 
 for Vocational Education, the Federal board shall recognize such local board 
 for the purposes of this -Act until the legislature of such State meets in due_ 
 course and has been in session sixty days. 
 
 Any State may accept the benefits of any one or more of the respective 
 funds herein appropriated, and it may defer the acceptance of the benefits 
 of any one or more of such funds, and shall be required to meet only the con- 
 ditions relative to the fund or funds the benefits of which it has accepted: 
 Provided, That after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, no State 
 shall receive any appropriation for salaries of teachers, supervisors, or direc- 
 tors of agricultural subjects, until it shall have taken advantage of at least 
 the minimum amoimt appropriated for the training of teachers, supervisors, 
 or directors of agricultural subjects as provided for in this act, and that after 
 said date no State shall receive any appropriation for the salaries of teachers 
 of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects until it shall have taken 
 advantage of at least the minimum amount appropriated for the training 
 of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects, as provided 
 for in this Act. 
 
 Section 6. That a Federal Board for Vocational Education is hereby 
 created, to consist of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, 
 the Secretary of Labor, the United States Commissioner of Education, and 
 three citizens of the United States to be appointed by the President, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the Senate. One of said three citizens shall be 
 a representative of the manufacturing and commercial interests, one a repre- 
 sentative of the agricultural interests, and one a representative of labor. The 
 board shall elect annually one of its members as thairman. In the first instance, 
 one of the citizen members shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, 
 and one for three years, and thereafter for three years each. The members of 
 the board other than the members of the Cabinet and the United States Com- 
 missioner of Education shall receive a salary of $5,000 per annum. 
 
 The board shall have power to cooperate with State boards in carrying out 
 the provisions of this Act. It shall be tlie duty of the Federal Board for Voca- 
 tional Education to make, or cause to have made studies, investigations, and 
 reports, with particular reference to their use in aiding the States in the estab- 
 lishment of vocational schools and classes and in giving instruction in agri- 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 35 
 
 culture, trades and industries, commerce and commercial pursuits, and home 
 economics. Such studies, investigations, and reports shall include agriculture 
 and agricultural processes and requirements upon agricultural workers; trades, 
 industries, and apprenticeships, trade and industrial requirements upon in- 
 dustrial workers, and classification of industrial processes and pursuits; com- 
 merce and commercial pursuits and requirements upon commercial workers; 
 home management, domestic science, and the study of related facts and prin- 
 ciples; and problems of administration of vocational schools and of courses of 
 study and instruction in vocational subjects. 
 
 When the board deems it advisable such studies, investigations, and 
 reports concerning agriculture, for the purposes of agricultural education, 
 may be made in cooperation with or through the Department of Agriculture; 
 such studies, investigations, and reports concerning trades and industries, 
 for the purposes of trade and industrial education, may be made in coopera- 
 tion with or through the Department of Labor; such studies, investigations, 
 and reports concerning commerce and commercial pursuits, for the purposes 
 of commercial education, may be made in cooperation with or through the 
 Department of Commerce; such studies, investigations, and reports concern- 
 ing the administration of vocational schools, courses of study and instruction 
 in vocational subjects, may be made in cooperation with or through the Bureau 
 of Education. 
 
 The Commissioner of Education may make such recommendations to the 
 board relative to the administration of this Act as he may from time to time 
 deem advisable. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the board to carry 
 out the rules, regulations, and decisions which the board may adopt. The 
 Federal Board for Vocational Education shall have power to employ such 
 assistants as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Section 7. That there is hereby appropriated to the Federal Board for 
 Vocational Education the sum of $200,000 annually, to be available from and 
 aftei" the passage of this Act, for the purpose of making or cooperating in making 
 the studies, investigations, and reports provided for in section six of this Act, 
 and for the purpose of paying the salaries of the officers, the assistants, and 
 such office and other expenses as the board may deem necessary to the execu- 
 tion and administration of this Act. 
 
 Section 8. That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriation 
 for any purpose specified in this Act, the State board shall prepare plans, show- 
 ing the kinds of vocational education for which it is proposed that the appro- 
 priation shall be used; the kinds of schools and equipment; courses of study; 
 methods of instruction; qualifications of teachers; and, in the case of agri- 
 cultural subjects the qualifications of supervisors or directors; plans for the 
 training of teachers; and, in the case of agricultural subjects, plans for the 
 supervision of agricultural education, as provided for in section ten. Such 
 plans shall be submitted by the State board to the Federal Board for Vocational 
 Education, and if the Federal Board finds the same to be in conformity with 
 the provisions and purposes of this Act, the same shall be approved. The State 
 board shall make an annual report to the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- 
 tion, on or before September first of each year, on the work donfe in the State 
 and the receipts and expenditures of money under the provisions of this Act. 
 
36 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 Section 9. That the appropriation for the salaries of teachers, super- 
 visors, or directors of agricultural subjects and of teachers of trade, home 
 economics, and industrial subjects shall be devoted exclusively to the payment 
 of salaries of such teachers, supervisors, or directors having the minimum 
 qualifications set up for the State by the State board, with the approval of 
 the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The cost of instruction supple- 
 mentary to the instruction in agricultural and in trade, home economics, and 
 industrial subjects provided for in this Act, necessary to build a well-rounded 
 course of training, shall be borne by the State and local communities, and no 
 part of the cost thereof shall be borne out of the appropriations herein made. 
 The moneys expended under the provisions Of this Act, in cooperation with 
 the States, for the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agriciiltural 
 subjects, or for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and indus- 
 trial subjects, shall be conditioned that for each dollar of Federal money ex- 
 pended for such salaries the State or local community, or both, shall expend 
 an equal amount for such salaries; and that appropriations for the training 
 of teachers of vocational subjects, as herein provided, shall be conditioned 
 that such money be expended for maintenance of such training and that for 
 each dollar of Federal money so expended for maintenance, the State or local 
 community, or both, shall expend an equal amount for the maintenance of 
 such training. 
 
 Section 10. That any State may use the appropriation for agricultural 
 purposes, or any part thereof allotted to it, under the provisions of this Act, 
 for the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects, 
 either for the salaries of teachers of such subjects in schools or classes or for 
 the salaries of supervisors or directors of such subjects under a plan of super- 
 vision for the State to be set up by the State board, with the approval of the 
 Federal Board for Vocational Education. That in order to receive the benefits 
 of such appropriation for the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors 
 of agricultural subjects the State board of any State shall provide in its plan 
 for agricultural education that such education shall be that which is under 
 public supervision or control; that the controlling purpose of such education 
 shall be to fit for useful employment; that such education shall be of less than 
 college grade and be designed to meet the needs of persons over fourteen years 
 of age who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work 
 of the farm or of the farm home; that the State or local community, or both, 
 shall provide the necessary plant and equipment determined upon by the 
 State board, with the approval of the Federal board for Vocational Education, 
 as the minimum requirement for such education in schools and classes in the 
 State; that the amount expended for the maintenance of such education in 
 any school or class receiving the benefit of such appropriation shall be not 
 less annually than the amount fixed by the State board, with the approval of 
 the Federal board as the minimum for such schools or classes in the State; that 
 such schools shall provide for directed or supervised practice in agriculture, 
 either on a farm provided for by the school or other farm, for at least six months 
 per year; that the teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects 
 shall have at Jeast the minimum qualifications determined for the State by the 
 State board, with the approval of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 37 
 
 Section U. That in order to receive the benefits of the appropriation 
 for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects 
 the State board of any State'shall provide in its plan for trade, home economics, 
 and industrial education that such education shall be given in schools or classes 
 under public supervision or control; that the controUing purpose of such 
 education shall be to fit for useful employment; that such education shall be 
 of less than college grade and shall be designed to meet the needs of persons 
 over fourteen years of age who are preparing for a trade or industrial pur- 
 suit or who have entered upon the work of a trade or industrial pursuit; that 
 the State or local community, or both, shall provide the necessary plant and 
 equipment determined upon by the State board, with the approval of the 
 Federal Board for Vocational Education, as the minimum requirement in such 
 State for education for any given trade or industrial pursuit; that the total 
 amount expended for the maintenance of ^uch education in any school or 
 class, receiving, the benefit of such appropriation shall be not less annually 
 than the amount fixed by the State board, with the approval of the Federal 
 board, as the minimum for such schools or classes in the State; that such 
 schools or classes giving instruction to persons who have, not entered upon 
 employment shall require that at least half of the time of such instruction be 
 given to practical work on a useful or productive basis, such instruction to 
 extend over not less than nine months per year and not less than thirty hours 
 per week; that at least one-third of the sum appropriated to any State for 
 the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects 
 shall, if expended, be applied to part-time schools or classes for workers over 
 fourteen years of age who have entered upon employment, and such subjects 
 in a part-time school or class may mean any subject given to enlarge the civic 
 or vocational intelligence of such workers over fourteen and less than eighteen 
 years of age; that such part-time schools or classes shall provide for not less 
 than one hundred and forty-four hours of classroom instruction per year; that 
 evening industrial schools shall fix the age of sixteen years as a minimum 
 entrance requirement and shall confine instruction to that which is supple- 
 mental to the daily employment; that the teachers of any trade or industrial 
 subject in any State shall have at least the minimum qualifications for teachers 
 of such subject determined upon for such State by the State board, with the 
 approval of the Federal Board for Vocational Education: Provided, That for 
 cities and towns of less than twenty-five thousand population, according to 
 the last preceding United States census, the State board, with the approval of 
 the Federal Board for Vocational Education, may modify the conditions as to 
 the length of course and hours of instruction per week for schools and classes 
 giving instruction to those who have not entered upon employment, in order 
 to meet the particular needs of such cities and towns. 
 
 Section 12. That in order for any State to receive the benefits of the 
 appropriation in this Act for the training of teachers, supervisors, or directors 
 of agricultural subjects, or of teachers of trade, industrial or home economics 
 subjects, the State board of such State shall provide in its plan for such training 
 that the same shall be carried out under the supervision of the. State board; 
 that such training shall be given in schools or classes under public supervision 
 or control; that such training shall be given only to persons who have had 
 
38 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 adequate vocational experience or contact in the line of work for which they 
 are preparing themselves as teachers, supervisors, or directors, or who' are 
 acquiring such experience or contact as a part of'their training; and that the 
 State board,-with the approval of the Federal board, shall establish minimum 
 requirements for such experience or contact for teachers, supervisors, or direc- 
 tors of agricultural subjects and for teachers of trade, industrial, and home 
 economics subjects; that not more than sixty per centum nor less than twenty 
 per centum of the money appropriated under this Act, for the training of 
 teachers of vocational subjects to any State for any year shall be expended 
 for any one of the foUowingrPurposes: For the preparation of teachers, super- 
 visors, or directors of agricultural subjects, or the preparation of teachers of 
 trade and industrial subjects, or the preparation of teachers of home economics 
 subjects. 
 
 Section 13. That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriations for 
 the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects, or 
 for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects, 
 or for the training of teachers as herein provided, any State shall, through the 
 legislative authority thereof, appoint as custodian for said appropriations 
 its State treasurer, who shall receive and provide for the proper custody and 
 disbursements of all money paid to the State from said appropriations. 
 
 Section 14. That the Federal Board for Vocational Education shall an- 
 nually ascertain whether the several States are using, or are prepared to use, 
 the money received by them in accordance with the provisions of this Act. On 
 or before the first day of January of each year the Federal Board for Vocational 
 Education shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury each State which has 
 accepted the provisions of this Act and comphed therewith, certifying the 
 amounts which each State is entitled to receive under the provisions of this 
 Act. Upon such certification the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay quarterly 
 to the custodian for vocational education of each State the moneys to which 
 it is entitled under the provisions of this Act. The moneys so received by the 
 custodian for vocational education for any State shall be paid out on the requi- 
 sition of the State board as reimbursement for expenditures already incurred 
 to such schools as are approved by said State board and are entitled to receive 
 such moneys under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Section 15. That whenever any portion of the fund annually allotted to 
 any State has not been expended for the purpose provided for in this Act, a 
 sum equal to such portion shall be deducted by the Federal board from the 
 next succeeding annual allotment from such fund to such State. 
 
 Section 16. That the Federal Board for Vocational Education may with- 
 hold the allotment of moneys to any State whenever it shall be determined 
 that such moneys are not being expended for the purposes and under the con- 
 ditions of this Act. 
 
 If any allotment is withheld from any State, the State board of such State 
 may appeal to the Congress of the United States, and if the Congress shall 
 not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the Treasury. 
 
 Section 17. That if any portion of the moneys received by the custodian 
 for vocational education of any State under this Act, for any given purpose 
 named in this act, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 39 
 
 shall be replaced by such state, and until so replaced no subsequent appropri- 
 ation for such education sjiall be paid to such State. No portion of any moneys 
 appropriated under this Act for the benefit of the States shall be applied, directly 
 or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building 
 or buildings or equipment, or for the purchase or rental of lands, or for the 
 support of any religious or privately owned or conducted school or college. 
 
 Section 18. That the Federal Board for Vocational Education shall make 
 an annual report to congress, on or before December first, on the administra- 
 tion of this Act and shall include in such report the reports made by the State 
 boards on the administration of this Act by each ^tate and the expenditure 
 of the money allotted to each State. 
 
 Approved by President Wilson, February 23, 1917. 
 
 (39 Statutes at Large, Chapter 114) 
 
 FARM BUREAU LAW 
 
 An act to amend the county law, in relation to raising money in counties to improve agricultural 
 
 conditions. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
 do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Subdivision twenty-eight-a of section twelve of chapter six- 
 teen of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to 
 counties, constituting chapter eleven of the consolidated laws," as added by 
 chapter two hundred and eighty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and 
 seventeen, and amended by chapter three hundred and one of the laws of 
 nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby amended as follows: 
 
 28-a. The board of supervisors of any county may from time to time appro- 
 priate and pay out for the general improvement of agricultural and home condi- 
 tions and for the support and maintenance of county farm and home bureaus 
 to conduct demonstration work in agriculture and home economics and for the 
 employment by said bureaus of county agricultural agents and home demon- 
 stration agents, and for any other purpose which the board of supervisors 
 shall deem proper and which, in its judgment, will encourage and promote the 
 general improvement of agricultural and home conditions therein, such sums 
 as it may deem proper, and may raise money for such purpose by a tax on 
 real and personal property in the county. The board of supervisors may by 
 resolution, duly passed, direct the county treasurer to pay out moneys from 
 such appropriation upon the order of the treasurer of the county association 
 hereinafter provided for upon his giving a proper receipt therefor, and the 
 chairman of the board of supervisors may be authorized to enter into an agree- 
 ment to pay such funds in regular installments in advance, and such agree- 
 ment shall be sufficient authority in the hands of said county treasurer to pay 
 out such moneys, provided that this money shall be expended under an agree- 
 ment to be entered into between the county association and the state leader 
 of county agents, for the cooperative management of said farm and home 
 bureaus and the proper supervision of said county agricultural agent and home 
 demonstration agent; and provided that the cooperative relations therein 
 established shall continue until either party to the agreement shall notify 
 the other party that it wishes to terminate the agreement. Such a notification 
 
40 LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 shall be in writing and shall be served at least six months preceding any action 
 taken to annul the agreement. After receiving such notice cooperative rela- 
 tionships between said parties shall cease at the expiration of the six months, 
 period of notice provided reconsideration or request for continuance is not 
 made by the party issuing notification of desire to continue work under the 
 provisions of this agreement. On or before the first day of December in each 
 year and at any other time when requested by the board of supervisors the 
 officers of such county association shall report in writing to the board of super- 
 visors a detailed statement of its work and transactions for the year ending 
 November thirtieth, and for any other period which the board of supervisors 
 may request and in such form as said board may direct. 
 
 For the purpose of this act there shall be recognized in each county of the 
 state which shall qualify under this act to cooperate with the state college 
 of agriculture and the department of farms and markets in conducting the 
 work provided for in this act, a public county association, known as a county 
 farm and home bureau association, or as a county farm bureau association 
 if only one division is organized, herein referred to as the county association, 
 when the form of organization has been duly approved by the state leader of 
 county agents, provided that only one such association shall be recognized 
 in each county. The county association thus created may adopt such regula- 
 tions and by-laws governing its procedure in the work as are not inconsistent 
 with the provisions of this act. , 
 
 There shall be annually appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury 
 not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of assisting in the organization 
 and contributing toward the support of county farm and home bureaus in 
 the various counties of the state the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) per annum 
 for each county in the state for agricultural work and the suhi of five hundred 
 dollars ($500) per annum for home economics work for each county in the state 
 which shall qualify as required by this section; provided, however, that no such 
 bureau shall be entitled to receive any money so appropriated for agricultural 
 work unless the county in which the same is organized shall appropriate through 
 its board of supervisors or otherwise raise and provide at least eighteen hun- 
 dred dollars per annum for the support and maintenance of such work, nor 
 shall any county be entitled to receive any money for home economics work 
 unless said county shall appropriate through its board of supervisors or other- 
 wise raise and provide not less than fifteen hundred dollars per annum for 
 the support and maintenance of such work; provided further that two con- 
 tiguous counties may cooperate and be regarded as one county for the purposes 
 of this act, and the boards of supervisors in such coimties may appropriate 
 for the purpose of jointly conducting the work provided for in this act when the 
 plans for such cooperation are approved by the state leader of county agents; 
 and in addition there shall be annually appropriated such sums of money as 
 may be necessary for the proper and necessary supervision thereof. 
 
 The general supervision of the cooperative agricultural and home economics 
 extension and development work herein provided for shall be under the joint 
 direction of the commissioner of agriculture and the dean of the New York 
 State College of Agriculture through a representative to be known as state 
 leader of county agents, mutually agreed upon, and they are hereby authorized 
 
LAWS RELATING TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY 41 
 
 to make rules and regulations for the organization and conduct of such county 
 farm bureaus, and the moneys appropriated pursuant to this subdivision 
 shall be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller on vouchers 
 and certificates approved by the commissioner of agriculture. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved by Governor Smith, May 9, 1919. 
 
 (Laws of New York, 1919, Chapter 499) 
 
INDEX 
 
 References are to pages 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Adams Act of 1906 for further endowment of agricultural experiment 
 
 stations 26 
 
 Acceptance by New York State 27 
 
 Agricultural College. See New York State College of Agriculture at Cor- 
 nell University. 
 Agricultural Experiment Stations 
 
 Act establishing (Hatch Act of 1889) 14 
 
 Acceptance by New York State 16 
 
 Benefits applied to Cornell University 17 
 
 Benefits extended to the Geneva Experiment Station 19 
 
 Act for further endowment (Adams Act of 1906) 26 
 
 Acceptance by New York State 27 
 
 Alienation of property 10 
 
 Charter with amendments, 1910 7 
 
 Congressional Industrial Fund 17 
 
 Cooperative Extension Work ^ 28 
 
 Extent of farm and grounds 9 
 
 Extent to which property may be held 10 
 
 Farm and Grounds 9 
 
 Farm Bureau Law 39 
 
 Hatch Act of 1887, establishing agricultural experiment stations 14 
 
 Acceptance by New York State 16 
 
 Benefits applied to Cornell University 17 
 
 Benefits extended to the Geneva Experiment Station 19 
 
 Land-Grant Act of 1862 3 
 
 Acceptance by New York State 5, 6 
 
 Morrill Act of 1862 3 
 
 Morrill Act of 1890 17 
 
 New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva 19 
 
 To share in the benefits of the Hatch Act 20 
 
 Appropriation 21 
 
 New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University 
 
 Charter provisions 13 
 
 Act of establishment 23 
 
 Act for its administration 24 
 
 New York State Veterinary College 
 
 Charter provisions - 12 
 
 Nixon Act for the Promotion of Agricultural Knowledge 22 
 
 Objects and Powers of the Corporation < 9 
 
 Property 
 
 Alienation restricted 10 
 
 Extent of holding 10 
 
 Regents' Visitation 10 
 
 Reports of Trustees 10 
 
 Scholarships. See State Scholarships 
 
 Smith-Hughes Law for Training of Teachers 31 
 
 Smith-Lever Act of 1914 28 
 
 Acceptance by New York State 30 
 
 Special Appropriations 1894, 21; 1906, 28 
 
 Special Constables 9 
 
 State Scholarships JO 
 
 Training of Teachers in Agriculture and Home Economics 31 
 
 Trustees ' 
 
 > Membership J 
 
 Election ° 
 
 Reports. 10 
 
 Tuition and Fees in the state colleges ■ 12, 14, 25 
 
 Veterinary College. See New York State Veterinary College 
 
 Visitation of Regents 10 
 
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