114 THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL 



AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTICUT AGRI- 

 CULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 General Assembly convened : 



Sectiox 1. That for the purpose of promoting agriculture by 

 scientific investigation and experiments, an institution is hereby 

 establislied, to be called and known as The Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. 



Sec. 2. The management of this institution shall be committed 

 - to a Board of Control, to consist of eight members, one member 

 to be selected by the State Board of Agriculture, one member by 

 the State Agricultural Society, one member by the Governing 

 Board of the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven, and one 

 member by the Board of Trustees of the Wesleyan University at 

 Middletown, and two members to be appointed by the Governor 

 of this State, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The 

 Governor of the State, and the person appointed as hereinafter 

 provided to be the Director of the Station, shall also be ex officio 

 members of the Board of Control. 



Sec. 3. After the appointment of the members of the Board 

 of Control as aforesaid, said members shall meet and organize by 

 the choice from among their number of a President, a Secretary, 

 and a Treasurer, who shall be elected annually, and shall bold 

 their respective offices one year, and until the choice of their 

 successors. Five members of said Board shall constitute a quo- 

 rum thereof for the transaction of business. 



Sec. 4. Said Board shall meet annually after the first meeting 

 thereof, on the third Tuesday in January in each year, at such 

 place in the city of Hartford as may be designated by the Presi- 

 dent of said Board, and at such other times and places, upon the 

 call of the President, as may be deemed necessary, and may fill 

 vacancies which may occur in the officers of said Board. 



Sec. 5. Said Board of Control shall locate and have the gen- 

 eral management of the institution hereby established, and shall 

 appoint a Director, who shall have the general management and 

 oversight of the exjieriments and investigations which shall be 

 necessary to accomplish the objects of said institution, and shall 

 employ competent and suitable chemists and other persons neces- 

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



