AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 
AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
[Approved March 11, 1895.] 
Wuereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered 
scientific association, has embodied in its constitution a i 
provision 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 Acad- 
emy, provided only that the necessary expenses of such investigation are 
borne by the State; and, 
Wuenreas, The reports of the meetings of said Academy, with the sev- 
eral papers read before it, have very great educational, industrial and eco- 
nomic value, and should be preserved in permanent form; and 
Wuereas, 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 by the General Assembly of Publication of 
the State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the Reports of 
the Indiana 
Academy of 
with the report for the year 1894, including all papers of Science. 
the meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning 
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 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 Rditing 
editors to be selected and appointed by the Indiana Academy Reports. 
of Science, 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 Nunaieeee 
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 
