AN ACT TO i»KOVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE KEPOKTS 

 AND P.VPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



I Approved March 11, 1895.] 



\Yhereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered 

 .scientific association, has embodied iu its constitution a 

 pi-ovision that it will, upon the request of the Governor, or of the several 

 dopartinents of the State sovermnent, 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 Acad- 

 emj', i)rovided only that the necessary expenses of such investigation are 

 borne by the State ; and, 



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

 eral papers read before it, have very great educational, industrial and eco- 

 nomic value, and should be j)reserved iu 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 Iry the (ienet-al Assembly of the p , ,. ,. „ 

 State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the the Reports of 

 meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with Academy of 

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

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

 edited and prepared for publication as liereinafter 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 



publication without expense to the State, by a corps of Kd'f 



editors to be selected and appointed by the Indiana Acadmey Reports. 



of Science, who shall not. by ivason of such services, have 



any claim against the vState for comi)ensation. The form, style of binding, 



paper, typography and manner and extent of illustration of 



Number of 

 such reports, shall be determined by the editors, subject to printed 



the approval of the Commissioners of Public Printing and Reports. 

 Stationery. Not less than 1.500 nor more than 3,000 copies of each of said 



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