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priated to be paid to the commissioner by the treasurer, upon the 

 warrant of the comptroller, issued upon the vouchers of the com- 

 missioner, for necessary clerical services at such central office, 

 for printing and distributing reports of the results and opera- 

 tions 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 necessary for the efficient admin- 

 istration of such bureau. 



§ 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 re- 

 ceive such portion as the legislature shall determine of the bene- 

 fits 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 colleges established in the several states, under the 

 provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred 

 and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto." Such 

 benefits of such acts which this state is authorized thereby to 

 apply to any college, institution or agricultural experiment sta- 

 tion within this state, are applied to the agricultural experiment 

 station established under the direction of Cornell university and 

 the agricultural experiment station at Geneva, and this state 

 consents that such appropriation, money or benefits to or for the 

 use of this state, or of any institution within this state, payable 

 under or in pursuance of such act of congress, shall be paid 

 nine-tenths thereof to the treasurer of Cornell university, the 

 officer designated to receive the same, and one-tenth thereof to 

 the officers of the agricultural experiment station at Geneva 

 designated to receive the same, to be expended as provided in 

 such act of congress. Such experiment station shall, annually, 

 on or before the first day of December, make, to the commis- 



