scientific knowledge as shall tend to increase their proficiency in the business of agriculture.

SEC. 1717. [See act 1901, chapter 70.] There shall be appointed by the senate six trustees of said school. During the session of the general assembly of 1889 the senate shall appoint three of said trustees who shall hold office for four years, and three who shall hold office for two years, and biennually thereafter three trustees shall be so appointed, who shall hold office for the term of four years from and after the 1st day of July next succeeding their appointment. The Connecticut board of agriculture shall also annually elect a trustee, and the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall be ex officio one of said trustees.

SEC. 1718. Said board of trustees are empowered to take and hold in behalf of the State of Connecticut deeds of such lands and other property and such money as may be donated for the purpose of establishing and maintaining said school. SEC. 1719. To said board of trustees shall be committed the location of said school, the application of the funds for the support thereof, the appointment of managers and teachers, and the removal of the same, the power to prescribe the studies and exercises of pupils in said school, rules for its management, and the admission of pupils; and they shall annually report to the governor the condition of said school, and such annual reports shall be submitted to the general assembly at its regular sessions.

SEC. 331. [See Public Acts, 1899, chapter 147 post.] The comptroller shall cause to be printed, at the expense of the State, annually such numbers of copies of each of the following annual reports as is hereinafter stated; that is to say: of the Storrs Agricultural School, 1,000; * * * of the report of the board of visitors of the Sheffield Scientific School, 1,000 copies.

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SEC. 380. The estimates for the different classes of expenditures shall be made as follows, to wit: *for the State board of agriculture, the State experiment station, the Storrs Agricultural School, * by the secretary of the State board of agriculture. SEC. 1710. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall remain as now established, and its management shall be committed to a board of control, to consist of eight members, one member to be selected by the State board of agriculture, one member by the State Agricultural Society, one member by the governing board of the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven, one member by the board of trustees of the Wesleyan University at Middletown, and two members to be appointed by the governor. The governor and the person appointed, as hereinafter provided, to be the director of the station shall also be ex officio members of the board of control, and the members of the board shall continue in office for the term of three years from the 1st day of July next succeeding their appointment.

SEC. 1711. Said board shall choose from among their number a secretary and a treasurer, each of whom shall be elected annually, and shall hold their respective offices one year, and until the choice of their successors. Five members of said board shall constitute a quorum.

SEC. 1712. Said board shall meet annually on the third Tuesday in January in each year, at such place in the city of Hartford as may be designated by the president of said board, and at such other times and places, upon the call of the president, as may be deemed necessary, and may fill vacancies which may occur in

the offices of said board.

SEC. 1713. Said board of control shall locate and have the general management of the institution, and shall appoint a director, who shall have the general management and oversight of the experiments and investigations which shall be necessary to accomplish the objects of said institution, and shall employ competent and suitable chemists and other persons necessary to the carrying on of the work of the station. It shall have power to own such real and personal estate as may be necessary for carrying on its work, and to receive title to the same by deed, devise, or bequest. It shall expend all moneys appropriated by the State in the prosecution of the work for which said institution is established, and shall use for the same purpose the income from all funds and endowments which it may receive from other sources, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts by the name of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. It shall make an annual report to the governor, which shall not exceed 200 [400 by act of 1893, Ch. XVIII] printed pages, and such annual reports shall be submitted to the general assembly at its regular sessions.

SEC. 1714. The sum of $8,000 annually is hereby appropriated to said Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, which shall be paid in equal quarterly installments to the treasurer of said board of control upon the order of the comp

troller, who is hereby directed to draw his order for the same; and the treasurer of said board of control shall be required, before entering upon the duties of his office, to give a bond with surety to the treasurer of the State of Connecticut in the sum of $10,000 for the faithful discharge of his duties as such treasurer.

SEC. 1715. Upon the death or resignation of any of the members of the board of control the authority or institution by which such deceased member was originally appointed shall fill the vacancy so occasioned.

SEC. 4005. Every person or company who shall sell, offer, or expose for sale in this State any commercial fertilizer or manure the retail price of which is $10 or more than $10 per ton shall affix conspicuously to every package thereof a plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand, or trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer, the place of manufacture, and the chemical composition of the fertilizer expressed in the terms and manner approved and currently employed by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. If any such fertilizer be sold in bulk, such printed statement shall accompany every lot and parcel sold, offered, or exposed for sale.

SEC. 4006. Before any commercial fertilizer the retail price of which is $10 or more than $10 per ton is sold, offered, or exposed for sale the manufacturer, importer, or party who causes it to be sold or offered for sale within this State shall file with the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station two certified copies of the statement named in the preceding section, and shall deposit with said director a sealed glass jar or bottle containing not less than one pound of the fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample thereof.

SEC. 4007. The manufacturer, importer, agent, or seller of any commercial fertilizer the retail price of which is $10 or more than $10 per ton shall pay, on or before the 1st of May annually, to the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station an analysis fee of $10 for each of the fertilizing ingredients contained or claimed to exist in said fertilizer: Provided, That when the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the fee required for any persons acting as agents or sellers for such manufacturer or importer, such agents or sellers shall not be required to pay the fee named in this section.

SEC. 4008. Every person in this State who sells or acts as local agent for the sale of any commercial fertilizer of whatever kind or price shall annually or at the time of becoming such seller or agent, report to the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station his name, residence, and post-office address, and the name and brand of said fertilizer, with the name and address of the manufacturer, importer, or party from whom such fertilizer was obtained, and shall on demand of the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station deliver to said director a sample suitable for analysis of any such fertilizer or manure then and there sold or offered for sale by said seller or agent.

SEC. 4009. No person or party shall sell, offer, or expose for sale in this State any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, roasted, or in any form, as a fertilizer or as an ingredient of any fertilizer or manure, without explicit printed certificate of the fact, such certificate to be conspicuously affixed to every package of such fertilizer or manure, and to accompany every parcel or lot of the same.

SEC. 4010. Every manufacturer of fish guano, or fertilizers of which the principal ingredient is fish or fish mass from which the oil has been extracted, shall, before manufacturing or heating the same and within thirty-six hours from the time such fish or mass has been delivered to him, treat the same with sulphuric acid or other chemical approved by the director of said experiment station in such quantity as to arrest decomposition: Provided, however, That in lieu of such treatment such manufacturers may provide a means for consuming all smoke and vapors arising from such fertilizers during the process of manufacture. SEC. 4011. Any person violating any provision of the foregoing sections of this chapter shall be fined $100 for the first offense and $200 for each subsequent violation.

SEC. 4012. This chapter shall not affect parties manufacturing or purchasing fertilizers for their own private use and not to sell in this State.

SEC. 4013. The director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall pay the analysis fees received by him into the treasury of the station, and shall cause one or more analyses of each fertilizer to be made and published annually. Said director is hereby authorized, in person or by deputy, to take samples for analysis from any lot or package of manure or fertilizer which may be in the possession of any dealer.

SEC. 4014. The director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ED 1902-3

shall, from time to time, as bulletins of said station may be issued, mail or cause to be mailed two copies, at least, of such bulletins to each post-office in the State. Public Acts 1889, Chapter LII: SECTION 1. The treasurer and the commissioner of the school fund shall invest the principal of the agricultural-college fund of this State in any securities, except personal securities, in which by law the savings banks of this State may invest, and said commissioner shall have the custody of all securities belonging to said fund, and shall cause a schedule of the same to be made and registered in books kept in his office. He shall receive all payments on account of said fund, receipt therefor, and deposit the same with the treasurer, taking said treasurer's receipt for the same, and he shall draw all orders upon its principal and receive from the treasurer, at least semiannually, all income so deposited and transmit the same to the president and fellows of Yale College for the purposes and conditions set forth in chapter 143 of the general statutes. The treasurer shall pay interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum on the principal of said fund remaining in the treasury uninvested, and all expenses incurred in the management of said fund shall be paid from the treasury upon the order of said commissioner.

SEC. 2. Section 2253 of the general statutes is hereby repealed.

Ibid., Chapter XII: SECTION 1. The annual report of the Storrs School Agricultural Experiment Station shall be printed, bound and circulated as now provided by law for the annual report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven.

Public Acts 1893, Chapter LXVII: The name of the Storrs Agricultural School is hereby changed to The Storrs Agricultural College, by which name it shall hereafter be known and called.

SEC. 2. Section 1716a of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: "The Storrs Agricultural College is hereby established, and shall remain an institution for the education of youth whose parent or parents are citizens of this State; and the leading object of said college shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the general assembly of this State shall prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, * also in accordance with an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890."

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SEC. 3. Sections 1717, 1718, and 1719 of the general statutes are amended by striking out the word "school" whenever it occurs and inserting the word "college.'

SEC. 4. Section 2253 of the general statutes [confer section 2 of act of 1889, Chapter LII] is amended to read as follows: "The bonds of this State indorsed and known as agricultural college bonds and constituting the capital of the agricultural college fund, with all funds heretofore and hereafter received from the United States under an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, shall not be transferable except by special act of the general assembly, but shall remain in the custody of the commissioner of the school fund; and the treasurer and said commissioner are hereby authorized to invest any money now in their hands, or that may hereafter come into their hands, belonging to the principal of said fund, in any securities, except personal securities, in which by law the savings banks of the State may invest, and said commissioner shall semiannually receive and pay over the interest accruing from said fund to the treasurer of this State, who shall semiannually pay over the interest accruing from said fund, and also the amount received by virtue of an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, to Yale University and to the board of trustees of the Storrs Agricultural College, in such proportions and for the purposes and on the conditions set forth in the succeeding sections: and the treasurer shall pay interest, at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, on the principal of such funds remaining in the treasury uninvested."

SEC. 5. The corporation of Yale University shall, upon the passage of this act, and semiannually thereafter, report under oath to the treasurer of the State the number of pupils in attendance at Sheffield Scientific School who had, previous to the passage of this act, been admitted as gratuitous pupils under the agreement between Yale College and the general assembly of this State, as approved by Governor Buckingham September 3, 1863, and thereupon the said treasurer shall pay over to Yale University a sum equal to twice the amount such pupils would be required to pay at the regular rates charged other pupils of the said school.

SEC. 6. After the passage of this act no further nominations or appointments of State pupils to the said Sheffield Scientific School shall be made, and no portion of the interest accruing from the said act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, and

no part of the proceeds of the act of Congress of 1890 shall be paid over to said corporation of Yale University, except as provided in section 5 of this act, until said corporation shall contract in writing, in such form as the governor shall approve, to fulfill and perform all the duties and obligations imposed upon it by this act.

SEC. 7. After the passage of this act said corporation of Yale University shall furnish gratuitous education in such courses of instruction as, including the courses of instruction already instituted in said school, shall carry out the intent of the aforesaid act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, in the manner especially prescribed by the fourth section of said act.

SEC. 8. Said corporation shall furnish gratuitous education in said courses of instruction to pupils who shall be annually nominated to be pupils of said school in the manner prescribed by law. The number of pupils to be so received gratuitously into said school shall be in each year such a number as would expend a sum equal to the interest on the proceeds of the aforesaid act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, for the same year. in paying for their instruction in said school if they were required to pay for it at the regular rates charged to other pupils of said school for the same year. Said pupils shall be citizens of this State, and shall be admitted into said school upon the same terms and subject to the same rules and discipline which shall apply to all other pupils of said school, with the single exception that they shall not be required to pay anything for their instruction.

SEC. 9. All the interest and funds arising from the said acts of Congress of 1862 and 1890 not paid over to Yale University by the provisions of this act shall by said State treasurer be paid over to the trustees of the Storrs Agricultural College for the use of said college in the manner heretofore provided by law.

SEC. 10. Should any question of damages, growing out of the provisions of this act, arise between the corporation of Yale University and the State of Connecticut, such question of damages shall be referred to three commissioners, one to be selected by the General Assembly of this State, one to be selected by the corporation of Yale University, and a third commissioner to be agreed upon by the two first mentioned, or, in case of their disagreement, the third commissioner shall, upon application thereto by the other commissioners, be appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court of errors of this State, and the decision of said commissioners, or of any two of them, in writing, shall be final, and their award shall, if in favor of Yale University, constitute a claim against the State. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his order upon the treasurer in favor of Yale University for the amount of such award, which shall be paid from the sum appropriated for general purposes.

SEC. 11. The State of Connecticut hereby assents to and agrees that said moneys shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of said act.

SEC. 12. Said corporation of Yale University and the trustees of the Storrs Agricultural College shall annually make and distribute the reports called for by the aforesaid acts of Congress.

Snc. 13. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [Yale University called for the constituting of the commission provided for in section 10 of the above act. The commission in January, 1896, rendered a decision awarding damages to Yale University to the amount of $154,604.45, equivalent to the entire fund received by the State of Connecticut under the act of July 2, 1862, together with the interest on that sum from the time of the legislative act of 1893 to the date of the decision of the commissioners. The income from the funds received under the act of July 2, 1862, as well as the entire funds granted to the State of Connecticut under the act of August 30, 1890, are now paid to the Connecticut Agricultural College.]

Public Acts 1893, Chapter CCXXVI: SECTION 1. The sum of $1.800 annually is hereby appropriated to the Storrs Agricultural College Experiment Station for the purpose of investigating the economy of the food and nutrition of man, and for investigations of the bacteria of milk, butter, and cheese, and their effect in the dairy, and the said sum shall be paid in equal quarterly installments to the treasurer of the Storrs Agricultural College Experiment Station, and the comptroller is hereby directed to draw his order for the same.

Public acts, 1899, chapter 169: SECTION 1. The name of the Storrs Agricultural College is hereby changed to that of the Connecticut Agricultural College, and said college shall, under said new name, have, own, and enjoy all property and rights of said Storrs Agricultural College, and shall be subject to all laws applicable to said Storrs Agricultural College, and the management of said college shall continue as at present until changed by proper authority. Whenever a library building shall be erected upon the grounds of said college such library shall be named the "Storrs Memorial Library," and shall bear that name conspicuously both exteriorly and interiorly.

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SEC. 3. [Repealed by section 2, chapter 70, acts 1901.] There shall be a trustee of the Connecticut Agricultural College in addition to those now provided by law, who shall be elected for a term of four years * * * by and from the gradu

ates of said institution, the election to be under the supervision of the trustees for the time being and to be so conducted that all graduates shall have an opportunity to vote therein by signed ballots deposited personally or by letter.

Public acts, 1895 [1899], Chapter CCXXXV, as amended by the act of 1899, chapter 22: The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall make analyses of food products on sale in Connecticut or kept in Connecticut for export, to be sold without the State, suspected of being adulterated. Samples of food products for analysis shall be taken by the duly authorized agents of the station or by the dairy commissioner or his deputy, at such times and places and to such an extent as in the judgment of the officers of said experiment station and of the dairy commissioner shall seem expedient. The dairy commissioner or his deputy shall have full access at all reasonable hours to any place wherein it is suspected that there is kept for sale or for export, as above specified, any article of food adulterated with any deleterious or foreign ingredient or ingredients, and said dairy commissioner or his deputy, upon tendering the market price of such article, may take from any person, firm, or corporation samples of the same. may adopt or fix standards of purity, quality, or strength, when such standards The said experiment station are not specified by law. Whenever said experiment station shall find by its analysis that adulterated food products have been on sale in the State, or kept in the State for export for sale without the State, it shall forthwith transmit the facts so found to the dairy commissioner, who shall make complaint to the proper prosecuting officer to the end that violators of the law relating to the adulteration of food products shall be prosecuted.

Public acts, 1899, chapter 147: Five thousand copies of the annual report of the State board of agriculture shall be printed at the expense of the State. The reports of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station shall be eliminated from the report of the State board of agriculture; 7,000 copies of the report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and 7,000 copies of the report of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, not to exceed 400 pages each or the equivalent thereof in paper, pages, and printing in the form of a smaller report and a series of popular bulletins, shall be printed at the expense of the State.

Public Acts, 1901, chapter 70: SECTION 1. There shall be a trustee of the Connecticut Agricultural College in addition to those now provided by law to be known as the alumni trustee, who shall be a graduate of the institution of at least five years' standing, and who shall be elected at the college during commencement week for a term of two years *by the graduates of said institution.

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The election shall be under the supervision of a canvassing board, to consist of three members, one appointed by the board of trustees, one by the alumni association of the college, and one to be selected by the two aforesaid, and to be so conducted that all graduates shall have opportunity to vote therein by signed ballots deposited personally or by letter.

SEC. 2. Section 3 of chapter 169, 1899, is hereby repealed. [This act taking its place.

Public acts, 1901, chapter 175: SECTION 1. The board of control of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven shall designate and appoint a man qualified by scientific training and practical experience to be State forester during the pleasure of the board, and to be responsible to said board for the performance of his duties as prescribed in this act. The State forester shall have an office at the experiment station in New Haven, but shall receive no compensation other than his regular salary as a member of the station staff of deputies or aids, as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. The State forester is authorized to buy land in the State suitable for the growth of oak, pine, or chestnut lumber, at a price not exceeding $4 per acre, to the amount of the appropriation hereinafter named, which land shall be deeded to the State of Connecticut and shall be called a State park.

SEC. 3. The State forester is authorized to plant the lands so bought with seed or seedlings of oak, pine, and chestnut and such other trees as he may deem necessary or expedient, at a cost not exceeding $2.50 an acre; to exchange the land so bought with adjoining proprietors, if desirable, in order to make the State park more compact for fencing, and for and in behalf of the State to execute deeds for such purpose; to fence such lands with substantial wire fencing, not barbed, and to use proper precautions to protect said lands from forest fires, from trespassers, and the destruction of game, fish, and timber thereon, and in so doing may employ such local wardens or assistants as may be necessary.