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SEC. 3. The duties of said corporation shall be the same as set out in sections 3 and 5 of said chapter 212.

SEC. 4. The payments from the treasury of the Commonwealth authorized to be made to the treasurer of said board of control by section 6 of said chapter 212 and section 1 of chapter 327 of the acts of 1885 shall, in the same manner as therein provided and for the same purposes, be paid to the treasurer of the corporation hereby created.

SEC. 5. The said corporation shall by virtue of this act take and hold, as and for its property, all the property at present in the charge of said board of control, and is hereby further authorized to hold such real estate and personal property as may be necessary for its purposes. (Approved February 21, 1887.)

Ibid., 1887, chapter 212: SECTION 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts assents to and accepts a grant of moneys to be annually made by the United States, as set forth and defined in an act of Congress, designated "Public No. 112, being passed at the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress and approved March 2, 1887, and upon the terms and conditions contained and set forth in said act of Congress." [See chap. 111, of Acts 1889.]

SEC. 2. The governor of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice thereof to the Government of the United States. (Approved April 20, 1887.)

Ibid., 1887, Resolves, chapter 44: That there be printed 12,000 extra copies of the report of the State experiment station at Amherst, the same to be bound with the report of the board of agriculture. (Fifteen thousand copies by chap. 15, Resolves of 1886.)

Ibid., 1888, chapter 296: Every lot or parcel of commercial fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes, sold, offered or exposed for sale within this Commonwealth, the retail price of which is $10 or more per ton, shall be accompanied by a plainly-printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand, or trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, the place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen or its equivalent in ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled water and reverted, as well as the total phosphoric acid. In the case of those fertilizers which consist of other and cheaper materials said label shall give a correct general statement of the composition and ingredients of the fertilizer it accompanies.

SEC. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer the retail price of which is $10 or more per ton is sold, offered, or exposed for sale, the importer, manufacturer, or party who causes it to be sold or offered for sale within the State of Massachusetts shall file with the director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station a certified copy of the statement named in section 1 of this act, and shall also deposit with said director, at his request, a sealed glass jar or bottle containing not less than 1 pound of the fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample thereof.

SEC. 3. The manufacturer, importer, agent, or seller of any brand of commercial fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes, the retail price of which is $10 or more per ton, shall pay for each brand, on or before the 1st day of May, annually, to the director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, an analysis fee of $5 for each of the three following fertilizing ingredients, namely, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contained or claimed to exist in said brand or fertilizer: Provided, That whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the fee herein required for any person acting as agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer, such agent, or seller shall not be required to pay the fee named in this section; and on receipt of said analysis fees and statement specified in section 2 the director of said station shall issue certificates of compliance with this act.

SEC. 7. The director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station shall pay the analysis fees as soon as received by him, into the treasury of the station, and shall cause one analysis or more of each fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes to be made annually, and publish the results monthly, with such additional information as circumstances advise, provided such information relates only to the composition of the fertilizer or fertilizing material inspected. Said director is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, from any lot or package of fertilizer or any material used for manurial purposes which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent, or dealer; but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest or their representative, and taken from a parcel or a number of packages which shall not be less than 10 per cent of the whole lot inspected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and then divided into two

equal samples, and placed in glass vessels and carefully sealed, and a label placed on each stating the name or brand of the fertilizer or material sampled, the name of the party from whose stock the sample was drawn, and the time and place of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the director or his deputy, and by the party or parties in interest or their representatives present at the drawing and sealing of said sample; one of said duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and the other by the party whose stock was sampled. All parties violating this act shall be prosecuted by the director of said station, but it shall be the duty of said director, upon ascertaining any violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manufacturer or importer in writing, and give him not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the requirements of this act, but there shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of the fertilizer or fertilizing material if the same shall be found substantially equivalent to the statement of analysis made by the manufacturer or importer. (Approved May 3, 1888.)

Ibid., 1888, chapter 333: SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 212 of the acts of 1882 is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: "The management of said station shall be vested in a board of control of eleven 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, by said board of agriculture; two from the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, by said trustees; one from the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, by said society; one from the Massachusetts State Grange, by said State grange; one from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by said society; and the remaining members shall be the president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, and the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, provided, however, that no person so elected by any of the above named boards or societies shall continue to be a member of said board of control after he has ceased to be a member of the board or of the society by which he was elected. The said board shall choose a secretary and treasurer. (Approved May 10, 1888.)

Ibid., Resolves, 1888, chapter 66: Appropriates $19,000 for new buildings, improvements, and repairs.

Ibid., 1889, chapter 111: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 212 of the acts of 1887, is hereby amended by adding after the word " Congress at the end of the section the words "and the Massachusetts Agricultural College is hereby authorized and designated to receive said grant of money.

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SEC. 2. The governor of the Commonwealth is hereby requested to give due notice of this amendment to the Government of the United States. (Approved March 13, 1889.)

Ibid., 1889, chapter 45: The trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College shall hereafter be allowed and paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth such sum as is necessary for their personal and incidental expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, in the same manner as the trustees of other public institutions are now paid and allowed. (Approved February 18, 1889.)

Ibid., 1889, Resolves, chapter 12: That there be paid annually, for the term of 4 years, from the treasury of the Commonwealth to the treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, the sum of $10,000, to be expended under the direction of the trustees, for the following purposes, to wit: Five thousand dollars for the establishment of a labor fund to assist needy students of said college, and $5,000 to provide the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and the law of the United States relating thereto. The said sum shall be paid in equal quarterly payments. (Approved March 1, 1889.)

Ibid., 1889, Resolves, chapter 63: That there be allowed and paid out of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding $10,000, to be expended by the board of control, for the purpose of erecting a suitable building and stocking it, and for providing the necessary apparatus and a greenhouse at the agricultural experiment station at Amherst, to enable the said board of control to establish a department of vegetable physiology for the purpose of investigating the diseases of plants. (Approved April 12, 1889.)

Ibid., 1889, chapter 164: [Allows the printing of 5,000 copies of the report of the Massachusetts Agricultural College instead of 3,500, as named in a general act authorizing public printing of 1885, chapter 369.]

Ibid., 1891, chapter 423: SECTION 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby assents to the purpose of the grants of money authorized by the act of Congress, said act being chapter 841 of the acts of the first session of the Fifty-first Congress and approved on the 30th day of August, 1890.

SEC. 2. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby accepts the annual grant of moneys made by the United States, as set forth and defined in said act of Con

gress, and the treasurer and receiver-general of this Commonwealth is hereby designated to receive the same annually, to be applied by him under and for the purposes of said act; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hereby authorized to receive one-third and the Massachusetts Agricultural College twothirds of said grant of money, unless the courts should decide that the act of Congress granted all said money to the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

SEC. 3. The governor of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice thereof to the Government of the United States.

Ibid., 1891, Resolves, chapter 14: That the quartermaster-general of the Commonwealth be authorized to transfer to the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College the following military property now in their possession, and loaned them by the Commonwealth, and for which they are responsible to him by law, to wit: One Springfield rifle, etc., being the balance of property reported on hand by said college, loaned under authority of chapter 8 of the Resolves of 1868. The quartermaster-general is hereby authorized to drop the property above mentioned from his property accounts. (Approved March 6, 1891.)

Ibid., 1892, Resolves, chapter 19: Appropriates $10,000 annually for four years— "$5,000 for the establishment of a labor fund to assist needy students of said college, and $5,000 to provide the theoretical and practical education" required by law. Ibid., 1892, Resolves, chapter 100: Appropriates $8,000 for new buildings.

Ibid., 1893, Resolves, chapter 107: Appropriates $38,000 for new buildings and other improvements, and for insurance.

Ibid., 1894, chapter 101: Fixes the date of making a report to the legislature on the first Wednesday in January.

Ibid., 1894, chapter 143: SECTION 1. The Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, located at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst, may be transferred to and consolidated with the experiment department of the said college now known as the Hatch Experiment Station, in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The board of control of the said Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, at any meeting duly called for such purpose, may, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, authorize the transfer of all the rights, leases, contracts, and property, of every kind and nature, of said station and board, to the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and the said trustees may, at any meeting duly called for such purpose, accept the same for said college in behalf of the Commonwealth, whereupon such transfer shall be made by suitable conveyance; and when such transfer shall be made the said board of control shall cease to exist and the said Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station shall be deemed to be a part of, and to belong to, the experiment department of said college, under such name as said trustees may designate.

SEC. 3. The trustees of said college shall thereafter continue to carry on the experimental and other work for which the Massachusetts station was established, and to administer and apply all the property and funds that may be received by them hereunder, and by virtue hereof, for such purposes. They shall also from time to time print and publish bulletins containing the results of any experimental work and investigations, and distribute the same to such residents and newspapers of the Commonwealth as may apply therefor.

SEC. 4. Nothing herein contained shall operate to affect or discontinue the annual appropriations and payments thereof made, and to be made, by the Commonwealth for the proper maintenance of experimental work, under section 6 of chapter 212. acts of 1882, and section 1 of chapter 327, acts of 1885; and the payment of said appropriations shall hereafter be made to the treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The trustees of said college shall make or cause to be made annually to the general court a detailed report of the expenditure of all such moneys, and such further report of the annual work of the experiment department of the college station as the trustees of the college shall deem advisable. (Approved March 22, 1894.)

Ibid., chapter 144: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 20 of the public statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, and secretary of the Commonwealth, the president of the agricultural college, the secretary of the board of agriculture, one person appointed from and by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, one person appointed from and by each agricultural society which receives an annual bounty from the Commonwealth, and three other persons appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall constitute the State board of agriculture." (Approved March 22, 1894.)

Ibid., Resolves, chapter 70: Appropriates $7,000 "to provide the necessary electric power for use in the barn and dairy school of said college, and for wiring the buildings of the college and providing power for lighting the same by electricity."

Ibid., Resolves, chapter 103: That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding $5,000, to be expended by the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College in purchasing cattle to stock the farm at said college, provided, however, that the expense of selecting and testing said cattle shall be paid from the sum herein authorized. (Approved June 29, 1894.)

Ibid., 1895, chapter 421: SECTION 1. The director of the Hatch experiment station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College shall hereafter have and exercise the powers and duties granted and imposed upon the director of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station by chapter 296 of the acts of 1888. (Approved May 29, 1895.)

Ibid., 1895, chapter 57: SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 143 of the acts of 1894 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " SEC. 2. The said Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, at any meeting duly called for such purpose, may, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, authorize the transfer of all the rights, leases, contracts, and property of every kind and nature of said station to the Massachusetts Agricultural College; and the trustees of said college may, at any meeting duly called for such purpose, accept the same for said college in behalf of the Commonwealth, whereupon such transfer shall be made by suitable conveyance, and when such transfer shall be made the said Massachusetts agricultural experiment station shall be deemed to be a part of, and to belong to, the experiment department of said college, under such name as said trustees may designate." (Approved February 15, 1895.)

Ibid., 1895, Resolves, chapter 43: Appropriates $5,500 for entomological and military accommodations.

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Ibid., 1896, Resolves. chapter 98: Appropriates $13,900 for repairs and additions; also from and after the 1st day of January, 1897, there shall be allowed and paid annually from the treasury of the Commonwealth, in accordance with chapter 19 of the Resolves of 1892, for the term of four years, the sum of $10,000 for the following purposes to wit, $5,000 for the continuance of a labor fund to assist needy students of said college, and $5,000 to provide the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and the law of the United States relating thereto." (Approved May 15, 1896.)

Ibid., 1897, Resolves, chapter 15: Appropriates $12,000 to be expended for water works and repairs, and instruction in botany.

Ibid., 1898, Resolves, chapter 109: Appropriates $28,000 for veterinary laboratory and stable hospital, chemical apparatus and experimental dairy department. Ibid., 1899, Resolves, chapter 70: That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to the Massachusetts Agricultural College the sum of $10,000, to provide the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and the law of the United States relating thereto, said sum to be paid in quarterly installments commencing with the 1st day of January, 1899. (Approved May 2, 1899.)

Ibid., 1900. Resolves, chapter 50: That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to the Massachusetts Agricultural College for the purpose of providing the instruction called for by its charter and by the law of the United States relating to the college, the sum of $8,000 annually for the term of four years beginning with the 1st day of January, 1900, the same to be paid in equal quarterly installments; and further that there be allowed and paid in the same manner to the said college an additional sum of $10,000 annually for the term of four years beginning with the 1st day of January in the year 1901; of which $5,000 a year shall be devoted to the purpose already stated, and $5,000 a year shall be used as a labor fund for the assistance of needy students of the college. (Approved April 11, 1900.)

Ibid., 1901, chapter 53: The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, for the year ending on the 31st of December, 1901, to wit: For the Massachusetts Agricultural College, for the purpose of providing 80 free scholarships, the sum of $10,000. For the Massachusetts Agricultural College the sum of $10,000, to be expended under the direction of the trustees for the following purposes, to wit: Five thousand dollars for the establishment of a labor fund to assist needy students of said college, and $5,000 to provide the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and by the laws of the United States relating thereto. For the Massachusetts Agricultural College, for the purpose of providing the instruction called for by its charter and by the law of the United States relating to the college, the sum of $8,000. For traveling and other necessary expenses of the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, a sum not exceeding $500. For a maintenance fund for the veterinary laboratory

at the Massachusetts Agricultural College the sum of $1,000. (Approved February 14, 1901.)

Ibid., 1901, Resolves, chapter 14: Appropriates $8,500 for painting buildings, repairs, and equipment.

Ibid., 1901, Resolves, chapter 106: Appropriates $400 for purchasing band instru

ments.

Ibid., 1902, chapter 46: Appropriates $10,000 for maintenance of experiment station and $1,200 for collecting and analyzing samples of concentrated commercial feed stuffs.

Ibid., 1902, chapter 66: Appropriates for the year ending December 31, 1902, like amounts for like purposes as appropriated in acts 1901, chapter 53.

Ibid., 1902, Resolves, chapter 69: Appropriates $35,000 for a central heating plant; $35,000 for erecting, equipping, and furnishing a dining hall, and $1,000 for the maintenance of the dining hall.

Ibid., 1902. Resolves, chapter 81: Appropriates $200 for the expenses of the band and for the purchase of a flag for the use of the cadets.

"Revised Laws" of Massachusetts, 1902, chapter 89: SECTION 1. The governor and lieutenant-governor, ex officiis, the secretary of the Commonwealth, the president of the agricultural college, the secretary of the State board of agriculture, one person appointed from and by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, one person appointed from and by each agricultural society which receives an annual bounty from the Commonwealth, and three other persons appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall constitute the State board of agriculture.

SEC. 10. The board shall be a board of overseers of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, with powers and duties to be defined by the governor and council, but such powers and duties shall not control the action of the trustees of said college or be inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 220 of the acts of 1863.

Acts and Resolves, 1861, chapter 183: SECTION 1. William B. Rogers and (here follow the names of 20 other incorporators) their associates and successors are hereby made a body corporate by the name of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally by suitable means the advancement, development, and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce: with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties. restrictions, and liabilities set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the general statutes.a

SEC. 2. Said corporation for the purposes aforesaid shall have authority to hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding $200,000.

SEC. 3. One certain square of State land on the Back Bay, namely, the second square westwardly from the Public Garden, between Newbury and Boylston streets, according to the plan reported by the commissioners on the Back Bay, February 21, 1857, shall be reserved from sale forever, and kept as an open space, or for the use of such educational institutions of science and art as are hereinafter provided for.

SEC. 4. If at any time within one year after the passage of this act the said institute of technology shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the governor and council that it is duly organized under the aforesaid charter, and has funds subscribed or otherwise guaranteed for the prosecution of its objects to an amount at least of $100,000, it shall be entitled to a perpetual right to hold, occupy, and control, for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, the westerly portion of said second square to the extent of two-thirds part thereof free of rent or charge by the Commonwealth, subject, nevertheless, to the following stipulations, namely: Persons from all parts of the Commonwealth shall be alike eligible as members of said institute or as pupils for its instruction, and its museum or conservatory of arts at all reasonable times and under reasonable regulations shall be open to the public; and within two years from the time when said land is placed at its disposal for occupation, filled and graded, said institute shall erect and complete a building suitable to its said purposes, appropriately inclose, adorn, and cultivate the open ground around said building, and shall thereafter keep said grounds and building in a sightly condition.

SEC. 8. [This and the following section were repealed, chapter 226, 1863.] The commissioners on the Back Bay are hereby instructed to reserve from sale the lots fronting on said square on Boylston, Clarendon, and Newbury streets until said societies [Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Society of

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