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 



Preamble, 

 scientific association, has embodied in its constitution a 



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 o/ 



fiuy investigation within its province, without pecuniary gain to the 



Academy, provided only that the necessary expenses of such investigation 



are borne by the State; and. 



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

 several papers read before it, have very great educational, industrial and 

 economic value, and should be preserved in permanent form ; and 



Whereas, 'J'he Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the 

 General x^ssembly to encourage by all suitable means intellectual, scien- 

 tific and agricultural improvement ; therefore. 



Section 1. Be it ciiacfrd hij the General Assembly of the publication of 

 State of Indiana, That hereafter the annual reports of the the Reports of 

 . , ^ ,. . , ^ r^ ■ ... ... the Indiana 



meetuigs ot the Indmna Academy of Science, begmnuig with ^(.,.^^,.^17 of 

 the report for the year 1S04, including all papers of scientific Science. 

 or economic value, presented at such meetings, after they shall have been 

 edited and prepared for pnl)licatiou 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 

 publication without expense to the State, by a corps of Editing 



Reports. 



editors to be selected and appointed by the Indiana Acad- 

 emy of Science, who shall not, by reason of such services, have any claim 

 against the State for compensation. The form, style of binding, paper, 



typographv and manner and extent of illustration of such re- 

 Number of 

 ports, shall be determined by tlie editors, subject to the ap- printed 



proval of the Commissioners of Public Printing and Station- l^eports. 



ery. Not less than 1,500 nor more than 3,000 copies of each of said 



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