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tioii and experiment upon the grounds of the Cornell university, 

 and shall if practicable establish and supervise one or more volun- 

 teer weather stations in each congressional district of the state, 

 in co-operation with the chief of the United States weather 

 bureau, for the purpose of increasing the usefulness of the weather 

 service of the state and of the United States. The sum of four 

 thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as the commis- 

 sioner deems necessary, shall be annually appropriated to be paid 

 to the commissioner by the treasurer_, upon the warrant of the 

 comptroller, issued upon the vouchers of the commissioner, for 

 necessary clerical services 'at such central office, for printing and 

 distributing reports of the results and operations of such bureau, 

 in such manner as shall be most serviceable to the people of the 

 state, and for the purchase, preservation and repair of proper and 

 necessary instruments for the work of such bureau and for the 

 reasonably necessary traveling and incidental expenses of such 

 commissioner and director in the performance of their duties, and 

 for such other expenses as such commissioner shall deem neces- 

 sa>ry for the efficient administration of such bureau. 



(Amended hy section 1 of cliapter 376, and section 1 of chapter 675 of 



the Laics of 1894.) 

 § 87. The agricultural experiment station at Cornell uni- 

 versity. Cornell university is designated as the college within 

 this state, solely entitled to receive the benefits of the act of 

 congress of the United States approved March second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-seven^ entitled "An act to establish agricul- 

 tural experiment stations in connection with the colleges estab- 

 lished in the several states under the provisions of an act ap- 

 proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the 

 acts supplementary thereto." All benefits of such act which this 

 state is authorized thereby to apply to any college, institution or 

 agricultural experiment station within this state, are applied to 

 the agricultural experiment station established under the direc- 

 tion of Cornell university, and this state consents that all appro- 

 priation, moneys or benefits to or for the use of this state, or of 

 any institution within this state, payable under or in pursuance 

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