humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections and generous sentiments among the people.

Acts and Resolves, 1863, chapter 166: SECTION 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby accepts the grant offered to it by the United States, as set forth and defined in the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, said act being chapter 130 of the statutes of the United States, passed at the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, upon the terms and conditions contained and set forth in said act of Congress; and the governor of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice thereof to the Government of the United States.

SEC. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and instructed to receive, by himself or his order, from the Secretary of the Interior or any other person authorized to issue the same, all the land scrip to which this Commonwealth may be entitled by the provisions of the before-mentioned act of Congress.

SEC. 3. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized and instructed to appoint a commissioner, whose duty it shall be to locate, without unnecessary delay, all the land scrip which may come into the possession of the Commonwealth by virtue of this act, and to sell the same from time to time on such terms as the governor and council shall determine. Said commissioner shall give a bond, with sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of $50,000, to be approved by the governor and council, that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, and shall render full and accurate returns to them, at the end of every six months, or oftener if required to do so by them, of his proceedings under this act. The compensation of said commissioner shall be fixed by the governor and council, and shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth; and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrants therefor. SEC. 4. All moneys received by virtue of this act, for the sale of land scrip, shall be immediately deposited with the treasurer of the Commonwealth, who shall invest and hold the same in accordance with the fourth section of the aforementioned act of Congress. The moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, to be entitled the Fund for the Promotion of Education in Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, which shall be appropriated and used in such manner as the legislature shall prescribe, and in accordance with the said act of Congress. (Approved April 18, 1863.)

Acts and Resolves, 1863, chapter 220: Marshall P. Wilder [and thirteen other persons mentioned by name], their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the leading object of which 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 order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life, to be located as hereinafter provided, and they and their successors, and such as shall be duly elected members of said corporation, shall be and remain a body corporate by that name forever. And for the orderly conducting of the business of said corporation the said trustees shall have power and authority, from time to time, as occasion may require, to elect a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers of said corporation as may be found necessary, and to declare the duties and tenures of their respective offices; and also to remove any trustee from the same corporation, when, in their judgment, he shall be rendered incapable, by age or otherwise, of discharging the duties of his office, or shall neglect or refuse to perform the same; and, whenever vacancies shall occur in the board of trustees, the legislature shall fill the same; provided nevertheless, that the number of members shall never be greater than fourteen, exclusive of the governor of the Commonwealth, the secretary of the board of education, the secretary of the board of agriculture, and the president of the faculty, each of whom shall be ex officio a member of said corporation.

SEC. 2. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to determine at what times and places their meetings shall be holden, and the manner of notifying the trustees to convene at such meetings; and also, from time to time, to elect a president of said college, and such professors, tutors, instructors, and other officers of said college, as they shall judge most for the interest thereof, and to determine the duties, salaries, emoluments, responsibilities, and tenures of their several offices. And the said corporation are further empowered to purchase or erect, and keep in repair, such houses or other buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said college; and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders, and by-laws, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, with reasonable penalties, for the good govern

ment of the said college, and for the regulation of their own body, and also to determine and regulate the course of instruction in said college, and to confer such appropriate degrees as they may determine and prescribe; provided nevertheless, that no corporate business shall be transacted at any meeting unless onehalf, at least, of the trustees are present.

SEC. 3. The said corporation may have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at their pleasure, and all deeds sealed with the seal of said corporation and signed by their order, shall, when made in their corporate name, be considered in law as the deeds of said corporation; and said corporation may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal, or mixed, and may prosecute the same to final judgment and execution, by the name of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College; and said corporation shall be capable of taking and holding in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal, provided that the clear annual income of the same shall not exceed $30,000.

SEC. 4. The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and personal, of which the said corporation shall be seized and possessed, shall be appropriated to the uses of said college, in such manner as shall most effectually promote the objects declared in the first section of this act, and as may be recommended from time to time by the said corporation, they conforming to the will of any donor or donors, in the application of any estate which may be given, devised, or bequeathed for any particular object connected with the college.

SEC. 5. The legislature of this Commonwealth may grant any further powers to, or alter, limit, annul, or restrain, any of the powers vested by this act in the said corporation, as shall be found necessary to promote the best interests of the said college; and more especially may appoint and establish overseers or visitors of the said college with all necessary powers for the better aid, preservation, and government thereof. The said corporation shall make an annual report of its condition, financial and otherwise, to the legislature at the commencement of its session.

SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall determine the location of said college, in some suitable place within the limits of this Commonwealth, and shall purchase, or obtain by gift, grant, or otherwise, in connection therewith, a tract of land containing at least 100 acres, to be used as an experimental farm, or otherwise, so as best to promote the objects of the institution; and in establishing the by-laws and regulations of said college, they shall make such provision for the manual labor of the students on said farm as they may deem just and reasonable. location, plan of organization, government, and course of study prescribed for the college shall be subject to the approval of the legislature.

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SEC. 7. One-tenth part of all the moneys which may be received by the State treasurer from the sale of land scrip, by virtue of the provisions of the one hundred and thirtieth chapter of the acts of the Thirty-seventh Congress at the second session thereof, approved July 2, 1862, and of the laws of this Commonwealth, shall be paid to said college and appropriated toward the purchase of said site or farm; provided, nevertheless, that the said college shall first secure, by valid subscription or otherwise, the further sum of $75,000 for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings thereon, and upon satisfactory evidence that this proviso has been complied with, the governor is authorized, from time to time, to draw his warrant therefor.

SEC. 8. When the said college shall have been duly organized, located, and established, as and for the purposes specified in this act, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer each year, on the warrant of the governor, two-thirds of the annual interest or income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the act of Congress named in the seventh section of this act, and the laws of this Commonwealth accepting the provisions thereof, and relating to the same.

SEC. 9. In the event of a dissolution of said corporation, by its voluntary act at any time, the real and personal property belonging to the corporation shall revert and belong to the Commonwealth, to be held by the same, and to be disposed of as it may seem fit, in the advancement of education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. The legislature shall have authority at any time to withhold the portion of the interest or income from said fund provided in this act, whenever the corporation shall cease or fail to maintain a college within the provisions and spirit of this act and the before-mentioned act of Congress, or for any cause which they may deem sufficient. (Approved April 29, 1863.)

Ibid., 1864, chapter 223: SECTION 1. The corporate name of "The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College," shall hereafter be "The Massachusetts Agricultural College."

SEC. 2. The location, plan of organization, government, and course of study prescribed for said college shall be subject to the approval of the governor and council. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioner authorized to be appointed by section 3 of chapter 166 of the acts of 1863 to sell from time to time the land scrip which may come into the possession of the Commonwealth by virtue of said act, on such terms as the governor and council shall determine.

SEC. 4. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized and instructed to transfer to the Massachusetts Agricultural College one-tenth of the entire amount of land scrip received by the Commonwealth from the United States by virtue of an act of Congress approved by the President July 2, 1862, and the proceeds from the sale of said land scrip shall be expended only for the purchase of land for the use of said college. If any portion of such proceeds shall remain unexpended after the purchase of a suitable site or farm for said college, then said college shall pay the same over to the treasurer of the Commonwealth, who shall invest and hold the same as a part of the fund for the promotion of education in agriculture and the mechanic arts, established by the fourth section of the one hundred and sixty-sixth chapter of the acts of the year 1863.

SEC. 5. To defray the necessary expenses of establishing and maintaining the Massachusetts Agricultural College, there may be advanced from the treasury, to be refunded as provided in section 6 of this act, the sum of $10,000, and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrants therefor: Provided, That the money shall be paid to the treasurer of said college.

SEC. 7. So much of section 3, of chapter 166 of the acts of 1863, as authorizes the commissioner therein named to locate land scrip of the Commonwealth, and so much of section 6, of chapter 220 of the acts of 1863, as provides that the location, plan of organization, government, and course of study prescribed for said college shall be subject to the approval of the legislature, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. (Approved May 11, 1864.)

Ibid., 1865, chapter 195: SECTION 1. The town of Amherst is hereby authorized to raise, by issuing its bonds, or by loan or tax, the sum of $50,000, to be appropriated and paid to the Massachusetts Agricultural College, out of the treasury of the town, and applied in the erection of suitable buildings upon the farm of said college in said town, provided that at a legal town meeting, called for that purpose, twothirds of the voters present and voting thereon shall vote to raise said amount for said object. (Approved May 5, 1865.)

Ibid., 1865, chapter 240: Appropriates $10,000 to aid "in establishing college." Ibid., 1866, chapter 263: SECTION 1. The board of agriculture shall constitute a board of overseers of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, with powers and duties to be defined and fixed by the governor and council. But said board of overseers shall have no powers granted to control the action of the trustees of said college, or to negative their powers and duties, as defined by chapter 220 of the acts of 1863.

SEC. 2. The board of agriculture is hereby authorized to locate the State agricultural cabinet and library, and to hold its meetings in said college.

SEC. 3. The president of the agricultural college is hereby constituted a member, ex officio, of the board of agriculture.

SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. (Approved May 26, 1866.)

Ibid., 1867, chapter 189: SECTION 1, Directs the treasurer of the Commonwealth to pay to college accumulated interest on fund "since July 30, 1864."

Ibid., 1868, Resolves, chapter 8: That his excellency the governor be authorized to issue to the president and trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College such arms and equipments, for the use of that institution, as in his judgment may be so distributed without detriment to the militia service; provided, the said president and trustees shall be held personally responsible for the same. (Approved March 11, 1868.)

Ibid., 1869, Resolves, chapter 34: Appropriates $50,000 from treasury of Commonwealth " for the erection of buildings and other improvements.”

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Ibid., 1870, Resolves, chapter 75: Appropriates $25,000 from the treasury for carrent expenses, and further, "Resolved, That the secretary of the board of education and the secretary of the board of agriculture be directed to devise a plan, if practicable, by which the college may, without expense to the Commonwealth, be recognized as an independent institution in analogy with other colleges in the Commonwealth, and that they inquire whether the term of study in said college should not be reduced; and report to the next general court." (Approved June 18, 1870.) Ibid., 1871, chapter 378: SECTION 1. Chapter 220 of the acts of 1863, entitled "An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College," is

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hereby amended as follows, to wit: Strike from the first section thereof the words, whenever vacancies shall occur in the board of trustees, the legislature shall fill the same," and substitute therefor the words, "also from time to time to elect new members." Strike the last sentence from the fifth section and substitute therefor the following, "the college shall furnish to the governor and council a copy of the annual report of its operations." (Approved May 26, 1871.)

Ibid., 1871, Resolves, chapter 89: Appropriates $50,000 from the treasury for current expenses, and adds to the fund for the promotion of education in agriculture and the mechanic arts a sum sufficient to increase said fund so that it shall amount to $350,000. (Approved May 26, 1871.)

Ibid., 1874, Resolves, chapter 57: Appropriates $18,000" in aid of that institution." Ibid., 1876, Resolves, chapter 52: Appropriates $5,000 out of treasury for current expenses, provided, That the excess of expenditures above receipts shall not exceed that sum."

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Ibid., 1877, Resolves, chapter 68: Appropriates $5,000 from treasury, one-half for current expenses and the other half "for manual labor which students may perform who are residents of the Commonwealth, but no student shall be paid more than $100 during one year."

Ibid., 1879, chapter 258: SECTION 1. Appropriates $32,000 "to pay the indebtedness of the Massachusetts Agricultural College."

SEC. 2. The expenses of the institution shall be kept within the income to which it is legally entitled, and the board of trustees shall be personally liable for any debt contracted for any purpose in excess of the assured income of the college or for the payment of which money has not been previously provided.

SEC. 3. The governor and council are hereby requested to examine the affairs of said college and report to the next general court some plan for its permanent continuance with its relations to the State definitely fixed, or some plan for its discontinuance, but with the provision in any event that its finances shall from this time be finally separated from the treasury of the Commonwealth. (Approved April 24, 1879.)

Ibid., 1882, chapter 212: SECTION 1. An agricultural experiment station shall be established and maintained at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the town of Amherst.

SEC. 2. The management of said station shall be vested in a board of control of seven persons, of which board the governor shall be president ex officio and of which two members shall be elected from the State board of agriculture, two from the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College by said trustees, one from the Massachusetts society for promoting agriculture by said society, and the remaining member shall be president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The said board shall choose a secretary and treasurer.

SEC. 3. The said board of control shall hold an annual meeting in the month of January, at which time it shall make to the legislature a detailed report of all moneys expended by its order and of the results of the experiments and investigations conducted at said station with the name of each experimenter attached to the report of his own work, which detailed report shall be printed in the annual report of the secretary of the State board of agriculture.

SEC. 4. The said board of control shall at its first meeting arrange for the retiring of two members each year, and the successors of such retiring members shall be elected by the bodies respectively which such retiring members represent, provided that in the years in which under such arrangement the president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College would be retired the said president shall remain and only one member shall be retired.

SEC. 5. The said board of control shall appoint a director, a chemist, and all necessary assistants, and shall provide suitable and necessary apparatus and appliances for the purpose of conducting experiments and investigations in the following subjects: (1) The causes, prevention, and remedies of the diseases of domestic animals, plants and trees; (2) the history and habits of insects destructive to vegetation and the means of abating them; (3) the manufacture and composition of both foreign and domestic fertilizers, their several values, and their adaptability to different crops and soils; (4) the values under all conditions, as food for all farm animals, for various purposes, of the several forage, grain, and root crops; (5) the comparative value of green and dry forage, and the cost of producing and preserving it in the best condition; (6) the adulteration of any article of food intended for the use of men or animals, and in any other subjects which may be deemed advantageous to the agriculture and horticulture of the Commonwealth. It may from time to time distribute any or all of the results of any experiment or investigation to such newspapers as may desire to publish the same.

SEC. 6. There shall be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth to the

treasurer of said board of control before the 1st day of July, 1882, the sum of $3,000 to establish, prepare, and equip said station; and for the maintenance of said station hereafter there shall also be paid to said treasurer the sum of $5,000 annually in regular quarterly installments. (Approved May 12, 1882.)

Ibid., 1882, Resolves, chapter 49: Appropriates $9,000 for repairs and drill house. Ibid., 1883, chapter 105: The board of control of the agricultural experiment station shall annually, in the month of January, make a detailed report to the State board of agriculture of all moneys expended by its order and of the results of the experiments and investigations conducted at said station, with the name of each experimenter attached to the report of his own work. (Approved March 30, 1883.)

Ibid., 1883, Resolves, chapter 46: That there shall be paid annually for the term of four years, from the treasury of the Commonwealth to the treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst the sum of $10,000 to enable the trustees of said college to provide for the students of said institution the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and the law of the United States relating thereto: Resolved, That annually for the term of four years eighty free scholarships be, and hereby are, established at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the same to be given by appointment to persons in this Commonwealth after a competitive examination under rules prescribed by the president of the college at such time and place as the senator then in office from each district shall desigrate, and the said scholarships shall be assigned equally to each senatorial district; but if there shall be less than two successful applicants for scholarships from any senatorial district such scholarships may be distributed by the president of the college equally among the other districts as nearly as possible; but no applicant shall be entitled to a scholarship unless he shall pass an examination in accordance with the rules to be established as hereinbefore provided. (Approved June 2, 1883.)

Ibid., 1884, Resolves, chapter 50: Appropriates $36.000 for new buildings: Provided, however, That the power of appointment of members of said board of trustees and the powers of removal defined in section 1 of chapter 220 of the acts of 1863 shall be hereafter exercised by the governor with the advice and consent of the council instead of said board; and said board during the current year shall, by lot, divide the elected members thereof into seven classes of two members each, of whom one class shall vacate their office January 1, 1885, and one class on the 1st of January in each year thereafter, and such action shall be certified by the board to the governor and council, and appointments to fill the vacancies so created shall be made for the term of seven years. (Approved May 8, 1884.)

Ibid., 1884, Resolves, chapter 48: Ordered, That 8.000 copies of the report of the board of control of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst be printed. (Repealed in 1885.)

Ibid., 1885, chapter 327: SECTION 1. There shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to the treasurer of the board of control of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst the sum of $5,000 annually, in regular quarterly installments, for the proper maintenance of said experiment station, the said sum to be in addition to the amount allowed for the same purpose by section 6 of chapter 212 of the acts of 1882. (Approved June 15, 1885.)

Ibid., Resolves, chapters 65 and 66: Appropriate $51,000 for building and furnishings for college and station.

Ibid., 1886, Resolves, chapter 34: (1) That there shall be paid annually from the treasury of the Commonwealth to the treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst the sum of $10,000, to enable the trustees of said college to provide for the students of said institution the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and the law of the United States relating thereto. (2) That annually the scholarships established by chapter 46 of the Resolves of 1883 be given and continued in accordance with the provisions of said chapter. (Approved April 16, 1886.)

Ibid., 1886, Resolves, chapter 60: Appropriates $7,000 for repairs and improvements.

Ibid., 1887, Resolves, chapter 31: SECTION 1. The members of the present board of control of the agricultural experiment station, established at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the town of Amherst, their associates and successors, are hereby made a body corporate under the name of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, for the purpose of carrying out more fully and effectually the provisions of the act establishing said station, as set forth in chapter 212 of the acts of the year 1882 and of all acts in addition to or amendment thereof.

SEC. 2. Said corporation shall be constituted as provided in sections 2 and 4 of said chapter 212.