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laid broad and deep, both for permanent advancement in acrri- 

 cultural science and progressive improvement in agricultural 

 practices. Experience only can point out what other means 

 may become necessary to secure the universal diffusion of the 

 knowledge that may be accumulated among the farmers of the 

 State. And surely the Legislature cannot refuse to grant what 

 we ask on account of our extravagant pecuniary demands. If 

 everything is granted, in the form reported by us, it will involve 

 an additional annual outlay of not over six thousand dollars, 

 and this for the greatest of interests in the State — xigriculture ! 

 And then the whole amount annually expended in all ways, to 

 foster this interest, will not exceed twelve or fourteen thousand 

 dollars. Can the Legislature hesitate one moment in granting 

 recommendations requiring so insignificant a sum of money for 

 benefiting and helping forward* an interest that pays more than 

 nine-tenths of the taxes of the State ? It is impossible, espe- 

 cially when so large a share of them are themselves farmers. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



DARIUS FORBES, Chairman. 



IN BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



An Act to endow the Chemicul Professorships of Bowdoin and Waterville Ck)llegc3, 



on certain conditions. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis- 

 lature assembled, as follows : 



Section 1. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed 

 to transfer the sum of thirty thousand dollars, in six per cent. State 

 stock, to the Board of Trustees of Bowdoin College, and the like sum 

 of thirty thousand dollars, in six per cent. State stock, to the Board of 

 Trustees of Waterville College, to be held in trust by them respect- 

 ively, as endowments of the chemical professorships in these Colleges, 

 of which they are trustees, whenever said Board of Trustees shall sev- 

 erally certify to the State Treasurer, through their Secretaries, under 

 oath, that they have enlarged the duties and the means of instruction 

 under said professorships, so as to embrace Agricultural Chemistry and 

 Vegetable Physiology ; and that they will comply with the requisi- 

 tions hereinafter specified. 



