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tion, and may employ competent and suitable chemists and other 

 persons necessary for carrying on the work of the station. Such 

 board shall have the direction of the expenditure of all moneys 

 appropriated to the institution and annually, on or before the first 

 day of December, make a full report to the commissioner of agri- 

 culture of their proceedings, receipts and expenditures, for the 

 year ending with the thirtieth day of September then next pre- 

 ceding. No member shall receive any compensation for his ser- 

 vices as such; but shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses 

 and those expenses incurred by him by an actual attendance upon 

 the meeting of such board. The board shall make such rules and 

 regulations, subject to the approval of the commissioner of agri- 

 culture, as may from time to time become necessary to carry out 

 the objects of the station. Such experiment station may, with the 

 consent and approval of the commissioner of agriculture, appoint 

 agricultural experts to assist such experiment station, in the 

 second judical department, in conducting scientific investigations 

 and experiments in agriculture; in disseminating agricultural 

 knowledge by means of lectures or otherwise; and in preparing 

 and printing for free distribution the results of such investigations 

 and experiments, and such other information as may be deemed 

 desirable and profitable in promoting the agricultural interests 

 of the state. Such experts may be removed by such experiment 

 station, in its discretion, and may be paid for their services such 

 sum as it may deem reasonable and proper and as shall be ap- 

 proved by the commissioner of agriculture. All of such work by 

 such experiment station and by such experts shall be under the 

 general supervision and direction of the commissioner of agri- 

 culture. 



§ 87. The Cornell university and the agricultural experiment 

 station at Geneva established by the laws of the state are hereby 

 designated as the institutions within this state, entitled to receive 

 such portion as the legislature shall determine of the benefits of 

 the act of the congress of the United States, approved March 

 second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled " An act to 

 establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the 



