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actual attendance upon the meeting of such board. The board 

 shall make such rules and regulations, subject to the approval 

 of the commissioner of agriculture, 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 judicial depart- 

 ment, 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 approved 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. (As amended by chapter 675 of the Laws of 1894.) 



§ 86. The state weather bureau. — The state meteorological 

 bureau and weather service, shall hereafter be known as the 

 state weather bureau, and shall be under the control and man- 

 agement of the commissioner of agriculture. Such commissioner 

 may appoint the director of such bureau but such director shall 

 not receive any compensation for his services. The commissioner 

 may continue the central office and station for meteorological 

 observation and experiment upon the grounds of Cornell univer- 

 sity, and shall if practicable establish and supervise one or more 

 volunteer 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 commissioner deems necessary, shall be annually appro- 



