4 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



consolidation could not be effected, and the act was amended, 

 chapter 57 of the Acts and Resolves of 1895. The full text, 

 as amended, is as follows : — 



Section 1. The Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, 

 located at the Massachusetts agricultural college in Amherst, may 

 be trausferred to and consolidated with the experiment department 

 of the said college now known as the Hatch experiment station, in 

 the manner hereinafter provided. 



Sect. 2. The said Massachusetts agricultural experiment sta- 

 tion, at any meeting duly called for such purpose, may, by a vote 

 of two-thirds of the members present, authorize the transfer of 

 all the rights, leases, contracts and property, of every kind and 

 nature, of said station to the Massachusetts agricultural college ; 

 and the trustees of said college may, at any meeting duly called 

 for such purpose, accept the same for said college in behalf of the 

 Commonwealth, whereupon such transfer shall be made by suit- 

 able conveyance ; and when such transfer shall be made, the said 

 Massachusetts agricultural experiment station shall be deemed to 

 be a part of, and to belong to, the experiment department of said 

 college, under such name as said trustees may designate. 



Sect. 3. The trustees of said college shall thereafter continue 

 to carry on the experimental and other work for which the Massa- 

 chusetts station was established, and to administer and apply all 

 the property and funds that may be received by them hereunder, 

 and by virtue hereof, for such purposes. They shall also from 

 time to time print and publish bulletins containing the results of 

 any experimental work and investigations, and distribute the same 

 to such residents and newspapers of the Commonwealth as may 

 apply therefor. 



Sect. 4. Nothing herein contained shall operate to affect or 

 discontinue the annual appropriations and payments thereof made 

 and to be made by the Commonwealth for the proper maintenance 

 of experimental work, under section six of chapter two hundred 

 and twelve of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 two and section one of chapter three hundred and twenty-seven of 

 the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and the 

 payment of said appropriations shall hereafter be made to the 

 treasurer of the Massachusetts agricultural college. The trustees 

 of said college shall make or cause to be made annually to the gen- 

 eral court a detailed report of the expenditure of all such moneys, 

 and such further report of the annual work of the experiment de- 

 partment of the college station as the trustees of the college shall 

 deem advisable, 



