General Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scien- 

 tific and agricultural improvement ; therefore. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hij tlic (lenenil As!iein.hl!i of tlie State of 

 Indiana, That hereafter the annual reix.rts of the meetings of the 

 Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with the report for the year 

 1S94, including all papers of scientific or economic value, presented at 

 such meetings, after they shall have been edited and prepared for pub- 

 lication as hereinafter provided, shall be ])ul)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 editors to be selected and 

 appointed by the Indiana Academy of Science, who shall not, by reason 

 of such service, 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, sunject 

 to the approval of the Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery. 

 Not less than 1,500 nor more than 3.000 copies of each of said reports 

 shall be published, the size of the edition within said limits to be deter- 

 mined by the concurrent action of the editors and the Commissioners of 

 Public Printing and Stationery: Proridcd. That not to exceed six hun- 

 dred dollars ($000) shall be expended for such pul)lication in any one 

 year, and not to extend beyond 1890: I'rorided. That no sums shall be 

 dqemed to be appropriated for the year 1S04. 



Sec. 3. All except three hundred copies of each volume of said re- 

 ports shall be placed in the custody of the State Librarian, who shall 

 furnish one copy thereof to each public library in the State, one copy :o 

 each university, college or normal school in the State, one copy to each 

 high school in the State having a library, which shall make application 

 therefor, and one copy to such other institutions, societies or persons as 

 may be designated by the Academy tlirougb its editors or its council. 

 The remaining three hundred copies shall be turned over to the Academy 

 to be disposed of as it may determine. In order to provide for the pres- 

 ervation of the same it shall be the duty of the Custodian of the State 

 House to provide and place at the disposal of the Academy one of the 

 unoccupied rooms of the State House, to l)e designated as the office of 

 the Academy of Science, wherein said copies of said reports ])elonging to 

 the Academy, together with the original manuscripts, drawings, etc., 

 thereof can be safely kept, and he shall also equip the same with the 

 necessary shelving and furniture. 



Sec. 4. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for the immediate 

 taking effect of this act, and it shall therefore take effect and be in force 

 from and after its passage. 



