NEW YORK STATE EXPERIMENT STATION. 
An. Acr establishing an Agricultural Experiment Station, passed 
June 26, 1880, as amended by the Act passed August 15, 1881. 
_ Section 1. For the purpose of promoting agriculture in its vari- 
ous branches by scientific investigation and experiment, an institu- 
tion is hereby established to be called and known as the New York 
Agricultural Experiment Station. 
§ 2. The management of this institution shall be committed to a 
board of trustees, to be known as the Board of Control of the State 
Experiment Station. Robert J. Swan, William A. Armstrong, N. 
Martin Curtis, Stephen W. Clark, Patrick Barry, Robert J. Dodge, 
Jabez S. Woodward, Daniel Batchelor and James McCann shall be 
the first trustees of the institution, of whom the three first named 
shall hold office as such trustees for three years, the three next named 
for two years, and the three last named for one year from the first 
day of January, cighteen hundred and eighty-one. Whenever a 
vacancy shall occur in such board by expiration of the term of office 
of any member thereof, or otherwise, the same shall be filled by the 
governor, and all trustees so appointed by the governor shall hold 
office for the term of three years, and until others be appointed in 
their stead. The governor shall be a member of the board by virtue 
of his office. 
§ 3. The said board of control shall annually elect a president 
from their own number, and shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer 
to hold such offices during the pleasure of the board. Six members 
of the board shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. 
[Sections 4 and 5 of the original act are repealed.] 
§ 6. Said board of control shall locate and have the general man- 
agement of the station and shall appoint a director to have the gen- 
eral oversight and management of the experiments and investigations 
which shall be necessary to accomplish the objects of said institution, 
and may employ competent and suitable chemists and other persons 
necessary to the carrying on of the work of the station. Said board 
may acquire, by lease or otherwise, such real estate as may in their 
judgment be necessary for carrying on the work, and shall have the 
direction of the expenditure of all money appropriated to the insti- 
tution for the purposes aforesaid, or otherwise received therefor, and 
shall annually make a full report to the legislature of their proceed- 
ings, receipts and expenditures. All property acquired by the said 
board shall belong to the state and shall be disposed of and used only 
ag authorized by law. 
