AN ACT rO 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 chartered 

 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 borne by the State, and, 



Whereas, Tlie 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 encoin-age by all suitable means intellectual, scientific 

 and agricultural improvement, therefore. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General A.^s:emhlii of the „ ,,• *■ e 



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State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the the Report.s of 

 meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with j^gj^^jemy ^f 

 the report for the year 1804, including all papers of scientific Science, 

 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 to Editing 



Reports, 

 be selected and appointed by the Indiana Academy of Sci- 

 ence, 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 



dumber 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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