EXPLANATION. 



To the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College : 



GENTLEMEN, In preparing this edition of the Acts, both national 

 and state, relating to the Agricultural College, your committee have 

 followed the arrangement that is adopted by the Commissioner of Cor- 

 porations of Massachusetts, in arranging the Corporation Acts. The 

 various amendments and modifications are inserted with that portion 

 of the principal Act to which they refer, but in such a way that the 

 original Act can be seen as unmodified, and also in its modified form. 

 Sections and parts of sections, however, which relate to matters that 

 have been accomplished, are omitted ; also, all State Acts or Resolves 

 relating to appropriations which have been fulfilled, are omitted. 



Provisions enclosed by brackets, thus, [ ] have been superseded 

 or repealed. Important provisions are printed in italics. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. H. BOWKER, 

 A. A. BRIGHAM, 

 GEO. NOYES, 



Committee on By -Laws 

 and codification of Acts 

 relating to the Agri- 

 cultural College. 



BOSTON, February, 1886. 



