No. 4.] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 371 



same in accordance with the fourth section of the afore- 

 mentioned act of congress. The moneys so invested shall con- 

 stitute a perpetual fund, to be entitled the Fund for the 

 Promotion of Education in Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 

 which shall be appropriated and used in such manner as the 

 legislature shall prescribe, and in accordance with the said act 

 of congress. 



The act of incorporation was an act of nine sections, the 

 corporators being Marshall P. Wilder of Dorchester, Charles 

 G. Davis of Plymouth, Nathan Durfee of Fall River, John 

 Brooks of Princeton, Henry Colt of Pittsfield, AVilliani S. 

 Southworth of Lov^ell, Charles C. Sewall of Medfield, Paoli 

 Lathrop of South Hadley, Phinehas Stedman of Chicopee, 

 Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton, George Marston of Barnstable, 

 William B. Washburn of Greenfield, Henry L. Whiting of 

 Tisbury and John B. King of Nantucket. (Messrs. Brooks, 

 Colt, Davis, Lathrop, Sewall, Stedman and Wilder were 

 members of the State Board of Agriculture in 1863.) The 

 Governor of the Commonwealth, the secretary of the Board 

 of Education, the secretary of the Board of Agriculture and 

 the president of the faculty were constituted ex officio 

 members. 



It was left to the trustees to determine the location of the 

 college in some suitable place within the Commonwealth, 

 and they were to secure, by purchase or otherwise, in con- 

 nection therewith, a tract of land containing at least one 

 hundred acres, to be used as an experimental farm or other- 

 wise, so as best to promote the objects of the institution ; 

 and in establishing the by-la\vs and regulations of said col- 

 lege they were to make such provision for the manual labor 

 of the students on said farm as they might deem just and 

 reasonable. The location, plan of organization, government 

 and course of study prescribed for the college were to be 

 subject to the approval of the Legislature. 



When the said college should have been duly organized, 

 located and established, it was to receive two-thirds of the 

 animal income received from the fund created under the act 

 of Congress heretofore referred to ; the remaining one-third 



