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General Assembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scien- 
tific and agricultural improvement; therefore, 
Secrion 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the meetings of the 
Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with 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 pub- 
lication as hereinafter provided, shall be published 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 he determined by the editors, supject 
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: Provided, That not to exceed six hun- 
dred dollars (S600) shall be expended for such publication in any one 
year, and not to extend beyond 1896: Provided, That no sums shall be 
deemed to be appropriated for the year 1894. 
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 io 
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 through 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 be designated as the office of 
the Academy of Science, wherein said copies of said reports belonging to 
the Academy, together with the original manuscripts, drawings, etce., 
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. 
