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AN ACT TO 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 provision that it will, upon 
the request of the Governor, or of the several departments 
RAIDED, 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, 
Wuereas, 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 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 
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re aad ot 1894, including all papers of scientific or economic value, 
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Meadeae of presented at such meetings, after they shall have been 
Bplence: edited and prepared for publication as hereinafter pro- 
vided 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 with- 
out 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 
rea of such service, have any claim against the State for com- 
pensation. The form, style of binding, paper, typography 
and manner and extent of illustration of such reports shall be determined 
by the editors, subject to the approval of the Commissioners 
eee of of Public Printing and Stationery, Not less than 1,500 nor 
eeperts. more than 3,000 copies of each of said reports shall be 
published, the size of the edition within said limits to be determined by 
