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U.18RARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



(JAKUEN. 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR T^HE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 

 AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11. 1895.]' 



Whereas, The Iiidiaiiii Academy of Science, a chartered 

 scientific association, has embodied in its constitntion a 

 in-ovision that it will, upon the request of the Governor, or of the several 

 departments of tlie State i^ovennnent, tlirougli the (Joveruor. and throuij:h 

 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. 



Whereas, The reports of tiie 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 



Whereas, The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly to encourage by all suitable meaxis intellectual, scientific and 

 agricultural improvement ; therefore, 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the (leneral Assemhlij of the „ ,,. .. - 

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

 meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science, beginning with \cademy of 

 the rei)ort 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 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 

 publication without expense to the State, by a corjis of Ed"f 

 editors to be selected and apjwinted by the Indiana Acadmey Reports, 

 of Science, who shall not. by reason of such services, have 

 any claim against the State f(ir compensation. The form, style of binding. 



rr paper, typography and manner and extent of illustration of 

 ^^' Number of 



such reports, shall be determined by the editors, subject to printed 



3) the approval of the Commissioners of Public Printing and Reports. 



^ Stationery. Not less than 3,500 nor more than 3,000 copies of each of said 



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