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employ competent and suitable chemists and other persons neces- 

 sary to the carrying on of the work of the Station. It shall have 

 power to own such real and personal estate as may be necessary 

 for carrying on its work, and to receive title to the same by deed, 

 devise, or bequest. It shall expend all moneys appropriated by 

 the State in the prosecution of the work for which said institution 

 is established, and shall use for the same purpose the income from 

 all funds and endowments which it may hereafter receive from 

 other sources, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, 

 in all courts, by the name of The Connecticut Agricultural Exper- 

 iment Station, It shall make an annual report to the Legislature 

 which shall not exceed two hundred printed pages, of which not 

 exceeding three thousand copies shall be printed. 



Sec. 6. The sum of five thousand dollars annually is hereby 

 appropriated to said Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, which shall be paid in equal quarterly installments to the 

 Treasurer of said Board of Control, upon the order of the Comp- 

 troller, who is hereby directed to draw his order for the same ; 

 and the Treasm-er of said Board of Control shall be required, 

 before entering upon the duties of his office, to give bond with 

 surety to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut in the sum of 

 ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties as 

 such Treasurer. 



Sec. 7. Upon the death or resignation of any of the members 

 of the Board of Control, the authority or institution by which 

 such deceased member was originally appointed shall fill the 

 vacancy so occasioned. 



Sec. 8. Professor Samuel W. Johnson, of New Haven, is 

 hereby empowered to appoint and call the first meeting of said 

 Board of Control as soon as may be practicable after the appoint- 

 ment of the members thereof, and he shall notify all said members 

 of the time and place of said meeting. Two of said members 

 shall hold office for one year, two of them for two years, and two 

 of them for three years ; and at said first meeting they shall 

 determine by lot which of said members shall hold office for one 

 year, which for two years, and which for three years. All mem- 

 bers of said Board thereafter chosen or appointed, except such as 

 are appointed or chosen to fill vacancies in said Board, shall con- 

 tinue in office for the term of three years from the first day of July 

 next succeeding such appointment. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect from its passage. 



Approved March 21, 1877. 

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