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State Agricultural College and the work of the Experiment 

 Station during 1905-06 (Chapter 30, 6th April, 1905). 



Connecticut amended a Law of 1903 relating to the income of 

 the fund of the Agricultural College and fixed the interest pay- 

 able by the State at 5 per cent. (Chapter 74, 18th May, 1905). 



Idaho created and established an Agricultural College Fund. 



In 1906, Iowa provided for a levy of a special tax of one-fifth 

 of a mill on the dollar upon the assessed valuation of taxable 

 property for the State, for the erection, repair, improvement, 

 and equipment of buildings for the State College of Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts, to be levied annually for five years, 

 beginning 1907 (Chapter 184, 10th April, 1906). 



Kansas appropriated funds for the support of the State 

 Agricultural College, and fixed the fees to be paid by the 

 students (Chapter 17, 7th March, 1905). 



Kansas also passed measures relating to the investment, &c, 

 of the Agricultural College Fund in the same year. 



Kentucky allotted in 1906 to the use of the Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College one-half of one cent out of the annual tax 

 of 50 cents on each $100 of value of all property directed to be 

 assessed for taxation. 



Rhode Island in 1906 increased its annual appropriation for 

 the Agricultural and Mechanical College from £3,000 to £5,000. 



Utah in March, 1905, created a Commission to consider the 

 advisability of submitting to the electors a constitutional amend- 

 ment providing for the consolidation of the Agricultural College 

 with the University of Utah, and in the same month passed an 

 Act prohibiting the University from giving any instruction 

 except in the normal courses in any branches of agriculture. 



State Laws as to Agricultural Colleges. 



On May 1st, 1905, Arkansas passed an Act extending 

 the usefulness and development of the Arkansas Agricultural 

 Experiment Station in agriculture, horticulture, veterinary 

 entomology, and kindred subjects, making appropriations 

 for the improvement and maintenance of the same, and 

 establishing courses of instruction at the State University 

 branch experiment stations, and agricultural investigations 

 (Act No. 231, 1st May, 1905). 



Iowa on 10th April, 1905, authorised the State College of 

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