AN ACT TO I'ROVIDE FOI{ THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 

 AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11, 1895.] 



AVhereas. The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered scientific 

 association, has embodied in its constitntion a provision that it will, upon 

 the request of the Governor, or of the several departments of the State 

 govenunent, through the Governor, and through its council as an advisory 

 board, 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 investigation are borne b,v the State; and. 



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

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

 nomic value, and sliould be preserved in permanent form ; and, 



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

 General Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scientific 

 and agricultural improvement; therefore, 



Section 1. Be it enacted hij the General Assemlthj of the State of 

 Indiana, Tliat hereafter the annual reports 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 publication as hereinafter 

 provided, shall be published by and under the direction of the Commis- 

 sioners of Public Printing and Binding. 



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

 out expense to the State, by a corps of editors to be selected and appointeil 

 by tlie Indiana Academy of Science, who shall not, by reason of such serv- 

 ice, Iiave any claim against the State for comi^ensation. The form, stj'le 

 of binding, paper, typography and manner and extent of illustration of 

 such reiX)rts shall be determined l)y the editors, subject to the approval of 

 the Commissioners of Public Printing and Stationery. Not less than 1,500 

 nor more than S.OOC) copies of each of said reports shall be published, the 

 size of the edition within said limits to be deteiTiiined by the concurrent 

 action of the editors ai'd the Commissioners of Public Printing and Station- 

 ery : Prorded. That iiot to exceed six hundred dollars ($600) shall be 



