10 



Future support 

 of college 

 provided for. 



Property in case 

 of dissolution, 

 how to revert. 



SEC. 8. When the said college shall have been duly organ- 

 ized, located and established, as and for the purposes specified in 

 this act, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer each 

 year, on the warrant of the governor, two-thirds of the annual 

 interest or income, which may be received from the fund created 

 under and by virtue of the act of congress named in the seventh 

 section of this act, and the laws of this Commonwealth, accepting 

 the provisions thereof, and relating to the same. 



SEC. 9. In the event of a dissolution of said corporation, by 

 its voluntary act at any time, the real and personal property be- 

 longing to the corporation shall revert and belong to the Common- 

 wealth, to be held by the same, and be disposed of as it may see 

 fit in the advancement of education in agriculture and the me- 

 chanic arts. The legislature shall have authority at any time to 

 withhold the portion of the interest or income from said fund pro- 

 vided in this act, whenever the corporation shall cease or fail to 

 maintain a college within the provisions and spirit of this act 

 and the before-mentioned act of congress, or for any cause 

 which they deem sufficient. 



Approved April 29, i86j. 



(1866. Chap. 263). 

 The Board of Agriculture Overseers of the College. 



SECTION i. The board of agriculture shall constitute a 

 Doard of overseers of the Massachusetts agricultural college, with 

 powers and duties to be defined and fixed by the governor and 

 council. But said board of overseers shall have no powers granted 

 to control the action of the trustees of said college, or to nega- 

 tive their powers and duties, as defined by chapter two hundred 

 and twenty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 three. 



SEC. 2. The board of agriculture is hereby authorized to 

 locate the state agricultural cabinet and library, and to hold its 

 meetings in said college. 



SEC. 3. The president of the agricultural college is hereby 

 constituted a member, ex officio, of the board of agriculture. 



Approved May 26, 1866. 



(1868. Resolves, Chap. 8) 



Resolve in relation to the issue of Arms to the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Resolved, That his excellency the governor be authorized to 

 issue to the president and trustees of the Massachusetts agricul- 

 tural college such arms and equipments, for the use of that institu- 

 tion, as in his judgment maybe so distributed without detriment to 

 the militia service : provided, the said president and trustees 

 shall be held personally responsible for the same. 



Approved March //, 1868. 



