REGULATIONS OF G0VP:RNIN0 HOARDS OF STATIONS. 2V)8 



tive board appointed for four years Ijy the governor, with the consent of tlie hoard 

 of educatidii, and mnsii^tinji of live iiieiMhei"s, at least three of wiioni must he resi(U'nt.s 

 of tlie eounty in wliicli tlie institutions are located. Board meetings are held on the 

 first Friday of each month. Special meetings are called by the president of the 

 board. 



The (lirector has j^'i'iieral supervision of the work of the staff, calls staff meetings, 

 administers the general affairs of the station, acts as i>urchasiiig agent, ami verities 

 all l)ills and accounts against the station for the auditing committee. The staff holds 

 regular monthly council meetings. All matters of station policy are referred to the 

 executive board, and all work is subject to its approval. Recommendations of new 

 lines of work are made to the board by the director. Each member of the staff i.s 

 responsible for the work in his division. 



NEBRASKA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska, Linrohi. 

 Department of the University of Nebraska. 



The governing hoard of the station is the l)oard f)f regents of the university, which 

 consists of si.\ meml)ers elected by poi)ular vote for terms of six years. By an act of 

 the State legislature of 1899 the funds accruing to the State for the maintenance of 

 the station are paid into the State treasury and must be reapportioned to the station 

 by the legislature biennially. By the sanu; act the State treasurer is made treasurer 

 of the experiment station. The board makes all appropriations of funds to divisions 

 of the station, and the president of the board ajiproves all bills. There aijti four 

 regular meetings of the board each year. Special meetings are very infrequent, 

 except in the case f)f certain committees of the board. By resfilution of the board of 

 regents at the organization of the experiment station the State Agricultural Society 

 is requested to appoint two of its members and the State Horticultural Society one of 

 its members, the three to constitute a visiting committee to visit the station at least 

 once eadi year, and to submit its report theri'on to the board of regents and the 

 governcjr. 



The director has general supervision of the work of the station, but the policy of 

 the station is determined by a council made up of the president of the board of 

 regents, the chancellor of the university, the director of the station, and the heads 

 of the several department':!. The duties of the council are to determine lines of work 

 to be pursued by the station and the general methods under which such work shall 

 be carried on. Meetings are held at stated times or at the call of the director. If 

 the council can not agree as to the work or methods, the final decision lies with the 

 executive committee, hut this committee may refer such questions to the governing 

 board, and are required so to refer them if thus requested in writing by a majority 

 of the station council. As yet the regents have not atloptcd rules governing the sta- 

 tion at Lincoln, but the following general rules were adopted September 14, 19():{, to 

 apply to the substation which has Ijeen Icjcated at North Platte ami is supported by 

 State funds: 



Rules for Wrstkrn Sitbstatiox. 



The Nebraska experimental substation is in charge of a superintendent under the 

 director of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and shall he operated as 

 a department of the university. 



Expenditures of substation funds when apitrojtriated by the regents are under 

 authority of the director. 



Bulletins and reports may he printed from the Hatch printing and stationery fimd. 

 The annual report shall be a part of tiie annual report of the Nebraska Agricultural 



