1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 383 



thereof is not in the judgment of said board inconsist- 

 ent with the purposes expressed in section one. 



An Act to Establish an Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



[Chapter 212, Acts of 1882, Sections 1, 2 and 3.] 



Section 1 . An agricultural experiment station shall Experiment 



. , station eBtab- 



be established and maintamed at the Massachusetts luhed. 

 agricultural college in the town of Amherst. 



Sect. 2. The management of said station shall be Management 

 vested in a board of control of seven persons of which board of 

 board the governor shall be president ex officio, and of 

 which two members shall be elected from the state board 

 of agriculture, by said board of agriculture ; two from 

 the trustees of the Massachusetts agricultural college, 

 by said trustees ; one from the Massachusetts society 

 for promoting agriculture, by said society ; and the 

 remaining member shall be the president of the Massa- 

 chusetts agricultural college. The said board shall 

 choose a secretary and treasurer, 



[Section 2 has been amended by Acts of 1888, 

 chap. 333, sect. 1. The management of said station 

 shall be vested in a board of control of eleven persons 

 of which board the governor shall be president ex 

 officio, and of which two members shall be elected 

 from the state board of agriculture, by said board of 

 agriculture ; two from the trustees of the Massachu- 

 setts agricultural college, by said trustees ; one from 

 the Massachusetts society for promoting agriculture, ^ 



by said society ; one from the Massachusetts state 

 grange, by said state grange ; one from the Massachu- 

 setts horticultural society, by said society ; and the 

 remaining members shall be the president of the 

 Massachusetts agricultural college, the director of 

 Ihe Massachusetts agricultural experiment station 

 and the secretary of the state boai-d of agriculture : 

 provided, however, that no person so elected by any of Provi«o. 

 the above named boards or societies shall continue to 

 be \ member of said board of control after he has 

 ceased to be a member of the board or of the society 

 by which he was elected. The said board shall choose 

 a secretary and treasurer.] 



