No. 4.] 



AGRICULTURAL LAWS. 



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shall thereupon pay such sums as may finally be deter- 

 mined to be due. 



Sect. 3. The state board of agriculture shall act as 

 a board of forestry, without pay, except for necessary 

 travelling expenses, and shall have the supervision and 

 management of all such public domains, and shall make 

 all necessary regulations for their care and use and for 

 the increase and preservation of the timber, wood and 

 undergrowth thereon, and for the planting and cultivating 

 of trees therein. The said board shall appoint one or more 

 persons, to be called keepers, to have charge, subject to its 

 direction, of each such public domain, enforce its regula- 

 tions and perform such labor thereon as said board shall 

 require ; and said keepers shall have the same power to pro- 

 tect such domain from injury and trespass, and to keep 

 the peace therein as constables and police officers in towns. 



Sect. 4. Said board may lease any building that may 

 be on any such public domain on such terms as it shall 

 deem expedient. All sums which may be derived from 

 rents and from the sale of the products of any such 

 domain shall be paid to said board and shall be applied 

 by it, so far as necessary, to the management, care, 

 cultivation and improvement of such domain ; and any 

 surplus remaining in any year shall be paid over to the 

 city or town in which such domain is situated. Said 

 board shall not, however, expend upon or on account of 

 any such public domain in any year a greater amount 

 than it receives as aforesaid. 



Sect. 5. A city or town in which any such public do- 

 main is situated may erect thereon any building for public 

 instruction or recreation, provided that such use thereof 

 is not in the judgment of said board inconsistent with the 

 purposes expressed in section one. 



* An Act to establish an Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 [Chap. 212, Acts of 1882, Sects. 1, 2, 3.] 



Section 1. An agricultural experiment station shall 

 be established and maintained at the Massachusetts agri- 

 cultural college in the town of Amherst. 



Sect. 2. The management of said station shall be 

 vested in a board of control of seven persons of which 



♦Chapter 143 of the Acts of 1894 provides for the consolidation of the 

 Massachusetts Experiment Station with the Experiment Department of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



Board of 

 forestry to 

 serve without 

 pay; to 

 appoint 

 keepers. 



may lease 

 buildings on 

 laud. 



Proceeds of 

 sale of prod- 

 ucts to Ijepaid 

 to board. 



Buildings for 

 instruction 

 and recreation 

 may be built. 



Experiment 

 station estab- 

 lished. 



Management 

 vested in 

 board of 

 control. 



