AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 

 AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11, 1895.] 



Whereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a cliartered 



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 scientific association, has embodied in its constitution a pro- 

 vision that it will, upon the request of the Governor, or of the several 

 departments of the State government, through the Governor, and through 

 its council as an advisory body, assist in the direction and execution 

 of any investigation within its province, without pecuniary gain to the 

 Academy, provided only that the necessary expenses of such investiga- 

 tion are l)orne by the State, and, 



"Whereas, The reports of the meetings of said Academy, with the sev- 

 eral papers read liefore it. have very gTcat educational, industrial and 

 economic value, and should be preserved in permanent form, and. 



Whereas, The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scientific 

 and agricultural improvement, therefore. 



Section 1. Be it enacted bn the General Asscmbli/ of the t, ,,. ,■ ^ 



'' • ' Publication of 



^tate of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the the Reports of 



meetings of the Indiana Academv of Science, beginning with . , ' V 

 " . • » o Acaderaj' of 



the report for the year 1894, including all papers of scientific Science, 

 or economic value, presented at such meetings, after they shall have l)een 

 edited and prepared for puiilication as hereinafter provided, shall be pul)- 

 lished by and under the direction of the Commissioners of Public Printing 

 and Binding. 



Sec. 2. Said reports shall be edited and prepared for pub- 

 lication without expense to the State, by a corps of editors to Editing 



Reports, 

 be selected and appointed by the Indiana Academy of Sci- 

 ence, Avho shall not, by reason of such services, have any claim against 

 the State for compensation. The form, style of binding, paper, tjqiography 



and manner and extent of illustration of such reports, shall 



Number of 

 be determined by the editors, subject to the approval of the printed 



Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery. Not less Reports. 



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