REGULATIONS oK (J()V?:RNING BOARDS OF STATIONS. 275 



Resolreil, Tliat in order to carry tin- foregoing recoinniendatious into effect, the 

 following regnlations be adopted: 



(1) Tliat the experiment station shall he a department of the college (as pro- 

 vided by law ), with the director as the resiwnsihle head. The heads of the sections, 

 with the president of the college and the secretary of the State board of agricnlture, 

 shall constitute the advisory council to meet with the director from time to time for 

 mutual consultation and consideration of station interests. 



(2) Excepting for tlie year litOO, for which year the executive committee will 

 act, in March, for the board, the director shall i)repare and submit to the board, at 

 its animal (I)ecend)er) meeting, after consultation with members of the staff, plans 

 for the station work and estimates for the expenditures for the following year. After 

 ai)proval by the board it shall be the duty of the director to see that such plans are 

 duly carried out, and thereafter such work, wherever carried on, shall Ije under his 

 imnie(liate charge or such niendxT of the staff as he may assign to it. 



('.]) Expenditures from the funds under station control shall be on rei|uisiti(jn 

 signe<l by the director, and the bills approved by him before being audited by the 

 executive connnittee and paid. In the al)sence of the director at or near the close of 

 the month, some other member of the staff may be designated by him to act in his 

 stead in this regard. 



(4) Bulletins or other regular publications of the station shall be printed on the 

 approval of the director and authorization of the executive committee. The print- 

 ing of the.^e shall be done, where j>ossible, on contracts made by the director at the 

 lowest figure obtainable on competitive bids for such work upon uniform .sjteciHca- 

 tions. 



(o) That the director of the stati<m be authorized and instructed to lease such 

 portions of the lands now held by the State Agricultural College f<.r experimental 

 purj>o.<es as are not needetl for scientific experimentation. Further, that such land 

 shall be leased only on condition that the lessees thereof shall keep and report to the 

 <lirei-tor a complete record oi the sowing, irrigation, cultivation, and yield of the 

 crops gnjwn on such lands. 



(tj) Further, that tin- director be instructed to inaugurate and maintain through- 

 out the station work a fundamental and comprehensive system of experimentation 

 along the line of irrigation and irrigated agriculture without iletriment or prejudice 

 to investigations or experiments of the several sections on subjects directly concern- 

 ing their dei)artmeutH of the station. 



(7) All rules and regulations relating to the powers of the director or operation 

 of the station which conflict with the above re.solutions are repealed. 



CONNECTICUT. 



The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Xm- f raven. 



The board of control consists of eight members, one appointed by the State agri- 

 cultural society, one by the State board of agricnlture. one by the boanl of trustees 

 of the Wesleyan I'nivi-rsity, one by the governing board of the ShellieM Scientilic 

 School of Yale University, and two by the governor of Connecticut, with the advice 

 and consent of the senate. These inemlH?rs serve for a term of three years. The 

 governor of the State and the director of the station are al.«o ex oHicio members of 

 the board of control. The board has general managi-ment of the institution and 

 holds at least three meetings annually. More frequent meetings are held by the 

 executive committee, which hasadopteil the following memorandum for the direction 

 of the members of the wtation staff: 



