Board of Agriculture. 9 



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 situ- 

 ated. 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 Buildings for 



instruction 



domain is situated may erect thereon any building for and recreation 



,,.. . . .iijii 1 ™*y be built. 



public instruction or recreation, provided that such use 

 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 estab* 



be established and maintained at the Massachusetts iished. 

 agricultural college in the town of Amherst. 



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

 vested in aboard 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 



control. 



