196 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of said Boards of Trustees, to cause 

 instruction to be given, without fee, to all persons, inhabitants of this 

 State, not undergraduates, in a regular college course of instruction, 

 ■who may resort to said institutions as students under the professorships 

 of chemistry only: they having the same privileges of the several libraries 

 and on the same terms, and being subject to the same college laws, 

 rules and regulations, as other students, so far as they may be applica- 

 ble to their position in said institutions ; and such students may at- 

 tend, without charge, all the lectures in said colleges, under such re- 

 strictions as may be imposed by said Boards of Trustees, and sanction- 

 ed by the Board of Agriculture. 



Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the professors of chemistry in each 

 of these colleges, to analyze or cause to be analyzed, as speedily as 

 may be, all soils, maniu-es, plants and seeds, sent to said colleges for 

 this purpose, by the farmers of this State or the Board of Agriculture, 

 without charge to the applicant, and report the result to him, with 

 such suggestions as he may deem necessary in the premises ; and an- 

 nually, on or before the first Wednesday in January, report to the 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture a full statement of his doings, 

 with such other matters as he may deem suitable. 



Sect. 4. A committee of three from the Board of Agriculture, 

 elected at its annual meeting, shall constitute an examining committee, 

 to visit from time to time, the chemical departments of said colleges, 

 to witness their instructions and doings, with special reference to the 

 interests of agricultural science, and annually, on or before the first 

 Wednesday in January, report to the Secretary of the Board of Agri- 

 cvdture, a statement, so far as they are able, of the doings, conditions 

 and prospects of these departments. 



