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APPROPRIATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS AND MAINTENANCE 

 AT THE MARKET GARDEN FIELD STATION. 



Resolves, Chapter 56. 

 Resolve providing for maintenance anb improvements at the 

 market garden field station in lexington. 

 Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the 

 commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, to be expended by the trustees 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at the market garden field sta- 

 tion in Lexington, a sum not exceeding sixteen thousand five hundred 

 dollars for the following purposes: For greenhouses and heating plant, 

 nine thousand dollars; for a foreman's cottage, four thousand five hun- 

 dred dollars; for maintenance, three thousand dollars. [Approved May 

 14, 191S. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF SMITH'S AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 



Special Acts, Chapter 151. 

 An Act establishing smith's agricultural school. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. The city of Northampton is hereby authorized through 

 Smith's Agricultural School and Northampton School of Industries, here- 

 tofore established in and by the said city, to carry out the provisions 

 of the will of Oliver Smith, late of Hatfield, relative to the establishment 

 of Smith's Agricultural School, which provisions were duly accepted by 

 vote of the town of Northampton passed on the thirtieth day of October 

 in the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and to appropriate money 

 for the support and maintenance of the said school, which shall hereafter 

 be called Smith's Agricultural School. 



Section 2. The city of Northampton shall annually at its city elec- 

 tion elect by ballot, as provided in said will, three superintendents who 

 shall have the powers of a local board of trustees as provided in section 

 four of chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the acts of nineteen hun- 

 dred and eleven. The election of superintendents heretofore made is 

 ratified and confirmed. 



Section 3. In computing the net maintenance sum for the said school 

 for purposes of state reimbursement under clause one of section nine of 

 said chapter four hundred and seventy-one, there shall be added to the 

 sum raised by local taxation the sum annually received by the city of 

 Northampton from the Smith charities and expended for the maintenance 

 of the school. 



Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 May 10, 1918. 



Note. — Chapters 262 and 273 of the General Acts and chapter 151 of the 

 Special Acts, supra, were passed in order to bring the Agricultural College, the 

 County Farm Bureaus and Smith's Agricultural School into conformity with the 

 amendment to Article XVIII. of the Constitution of Massachusetts, adopted by 

 the voters in November, 1917, and known as the Anti-Aid Amendment. 



