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INVESTIGATION OF SHEEP INDUSTRY AND AGRICUL- 

 TURAL LAWS. 



Resolves, Chapter 89. 



Resolve providing for a recess commission to consider the sheep 

 industry and related matters. 

 Resolved, That a recess commission consisting of three members of the 

 senate, six members of the house of representatives and one person to be 

 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the council, 

 shall sit during the recess and consider the matter of the sheep industry 

 in this commonwealth, and especially the message of his excellency the 

 governor relating thereto, and shall devise methods for stimulating the 

 production of sheep and the promotion of related interests, including agri- 

 culture; and shall study into and recommend changes in the laws affect- 

 ing the organization, powers and duties of the State Department of Agri- 

 culture and other agricultural laws and agricultural organizations. The 

 commission may give public hearings in different parts of the state, may 

 employ a secretary and stenographer and may incur such expenses for the 

 aforesaid purposes, and shall receive such compensation as the governor 

 and council shall approve. The commission shall report to the next gen- 

 eral court not later than the second Wednesday in January with such 

 recommendations for legislation, if any, as it may deem expedient. [Ap- 

 proved June 3, 1918. 



PART II. — LEGISLATION RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL 



EDUCATION. 



REORGANIZATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICUL- 

 TURAL COLLEGE. 



General Acts, Chapter 262. 



An Act to dissolve the corporation of the Massachusetts agri- 

 cultural COLLEGE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE 

 COLLEGE BY THE COMMONWEALTH. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. The Massachusetts Agricultural College, incorporated by 

 chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-three and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, is 

 hereby dissolved, and hereafter the college shall be maintained by the 

 commonwealth as a state institution under the name of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. The commonwealth shall settle the affairs of the 

 corporation, and shall be subject to its legal obligations and liable for its 

 lawful debts. 



Section 2. The present trustees of the said corporation shall be the 

 trustees of the state institution, and shall hold office as such until the 

 expiration of the several terms for which they were appointed, unless 



