AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 

 AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OP SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11, 1895.] 



Whereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered 

 scientific association, has embodied in its constitution a pro-preamble, 

 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 execu- 

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

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

 gation are borne by the State, and. 



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

 eral papers read before it, have very great 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 by the General Assembly of the 

 State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the^'^g'^^'^^**^*"'^^^^ 

 meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with^p^^^^^^'y^f 

 the report for the year 1894, including all papers of scientific^*''®""®* 

 or economic value, presented at such meetings, after they shall have been 

 edited and prepared for publication as hereinafter provided, shall be pub- 

 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 toEditing 



reports. 



be selected and appointed by the Indiana Academy of Science, 



who shall not, by reason of such services, have any claim against the 



State for compensation. The form, style of binding, paper, typography 



and manner and extent of illustration of such reports, shall 



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



Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery. Not less 



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