Law Establishing the Maine Fertilizer Control and 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



CHAPTER 294, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1885. 



AN ACT to establish an Agricultural Experiment Station. 



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

 lature assembled^ asfoUoics: 



Section 1. That for the purpose of protection from frauds in 

 commercial fertilizers, and from adulterations in foods, feeds and 

 seeds, and for the purpose of promoting agriculture by scientific 

 investigation and experiment, the Maine Fertilizer Control and 

 Agricultural Experiment Station is hereby established in connection 

 with the State Colleo^e of Asjriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



Section 2. The direction and management of this station shall 

 be committed to a board of managers, to consist of five members, 

 namely : the professor of agriculture of the State College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts, ex-ofl3cio ; the secretary of the state 

 board of agriculture, ex-oflScio, and three members to be appointed 

 by the governor, whose terms of oflSce shall be three years, except 

 in the first appointment, one shall be designated to serve but one 

 3'ear, and one to serve two years. 



Section 3. The board of managers shall be called together by 

 the secretar}^ of the board of agriculture, at such place in this state 

 as he may designate, within thirty days of the approval of this act, 

 for the purpose of transacting such business as may be required to 

 put the station in operation ; and thereafter the board of managers 

 shall hold a meeting annually, at Augusta, on the Tuesday preced- 

 ing the third Wednesday of January, for the transaction of business 

 relating to the station. Other meetings may be called, on due notice, 

 by the president, at such times and places as will best promote the 

 objects contemplated by this act. 



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