also in order to make provisions whereby more of the people of Maryland may avail of the advantages of an agricultural and industrial education, and at the same time provide for the proper fulfillment of the compacts made by this State in accepting certain grants from the United States Congress to this State. The amounts which are hereby provided for shall be expended, respectively, according to the provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this act.

SEC. 2. In order to provide dormitory accommodations for at least double_the number of students as present facilities will accommodate, and to provide modern and sanitary kitchen and dining room accommodations for students, and also to provide for a general assembly hall for chapel and other public functions, the sum of $25,000 is hereby appropriated.

SEC. 3. To provide for the proper heating, ventilation, and general renovation of the present dormitory building, the sum of $3,000 is hereby appropriated.

SEC. 4. To provide for the enlargement of the mechanical building, so as to release its overcrowded condition and also to make possible the installment of new appliances, the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated.

SEC. 5. In order to provide for the maintenance, repairs, and insurance of the building of the experiment station, to provide for the printing of bulletins and making exhibits, showing the results of the work, and also to provide for the investigations on the tobacco crop, in meat production, and in irrigation, an annual appropriation of $5.000 is hereby provided for and made.

SEC. 6. The comptroller be and he is hereby authorized to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the State for the several sums hereby appropriated, the same to be paid out of any funds not otherwise appropriated; that the said sum of moneys shall be payable to the Maryland Agricultural College and shall be expended under the direction of the board of trustees of said institution. And the first payment shall be made during the fiscal year ending September 1, 1902. SEC. 7. One-half of the amounts hereby appropriated for buildings shall constitute a first lien to the State of Maryland on the property of the Maryland Agricultural College, and this lien shall be secured by the mortgage, to be given by the said college in its corporate capacity, to this State; the said mortgage to run for the period of ten years, with interest at 3 per cent, payable annually, if demanded; said mortgage to be ratified by the trustees and stockholders of said college: And it is further provided, That before any of said sums shall become payable by the said State to the said college, said trustees shall at their own expense cause an examination of the title to be made by the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, or some competent attorney to be designated by the attorney-general, and upon the report of the persons or corporation so examining to the attorneygeneral and his approval thereof that the title is good, that the said property is vested in said college in its corporate capacity in fee simple and free from incumbrances, the money shall be paid by the fiscal officers of the State at the time provided for in the act and not before.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage, and the moneys appropriated for educational and experimental purposes and purposes of repair, shall be paid as herein before provided, and the moneys appropriated for building purposes shall be paid as soon as the mortgage hereinbefore provided for has been drawn, executed, and tendered to and approved by the attorney-general; and in addition the private stockholders shall, at a called meeting, assent to the lien created by section 7 of this act, by resolution to be filed by them with the secretary of state, which said resolution or a copy thereof, certified to by the register of the college, shall be evidence of said acceptance.

[The following matter is taken from the "Supplement to the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland containing the Public General Laws," passed at the sessions of 1850-1898, by John Prestiss Poe, Baltimore, 1898.]

Article LXI: SECTION 1. The term " fertilizer," as used in this article, shall be held to mean any commercial fertilizer, or any article, substance, or mixture sold, offered, or exposed for sale for manurial purposes within this State, of which the selling price shall be more than $10 per ton of 2,000 pounds. The term “brand” shall be held to mean the name under which the commercial fertilizer is sold, together with the statement of the percentage of valuable ingredients contained therein. The term "State chemist" shall mean the professor in charge of the chemical department of the Maryland Agricultural College, who shall be exofficio State chemist.

SEC. 2. Before any fertilizer is sold, offered, or exposed for sale within the State the following conditions must be complied with: (1) The importer, manufacturer, manipulator, dealer, or agent shall take out a license for the sale of fertilizers,

which license shall be rated upon the number of brands contemplated to be sold at the rate of $15 for each brand, said license to be prepared and furnished by the comptroller of the treasury and to be issued at any time, to be good until the 1st day of February following; (2) every bag, barrel, or package of fertilizer, and every parcel or lot, if sold in bulk, must bear in legible print, or be accompanied by a clear and true statement showing the net pounds of fertilizer in the package or lot, the name, brand, or trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the importer, manufacturer, or manipulator, the place of manufacture or manipulation, and a chemical analysis stating the per centum of the minimum, and only the minimum, contained therein, of nitrogen or its equivalent in available ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled water, and of available phosphoric acid.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College to analyze, without cost or charge, all samples of fertilizers sent to it for the purpose of being analyzed by any person or persons purchasing or procuring the same in this State for his or their use or uses; provided such persons are not interested in the analysis desired other than as consumers, of which affidavit shall be made and shall accompany each sample or brand; and further, such samples are taken and sent as described by this article, and free of cost of transportation to said college; and it shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College to procure samples, as far as practicable in every year, of all the fertilizers sold and used in this State, for the purpose of analyzing the same; and any duly authorized agent or representative of the said college shall have the right to take samples, as provided by this article, from any lot or parcel of fertilizer in transit or in possession or keeping of any manufacturer, manipulator, dealer, or agent, and sold or offered for sale in this State; and it shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College to send in the result of the analysis of every sample of fertilizer to the person from whom such sample was taken or received, and also to publish from time to time the results of the analysis made by the said college of the samples sent to or procured by it for such purpose; and it shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College, when reporting or publishing the result of any analysis made, to state the commercial value in dollars and cents of the fertilizer so analyzed, per ton of 2,000 pounds, such value to be based upon the analysis made by the college, and upon a standard of valuation to be ascertained, fixed, and published by said college annually, after conference with the proper officials of adjacent States.

SEC. 6 [as amended by laws of 1902, chap. 382]. All samples of fertilizers for analysis at the Maryland Agricultural College shall be taken from unbroken packages or bags that have not been damaged or injured in transit or by exposure, and when in the possession of the purchaser or purchasers within thirty days after coming into their possession it shall be lawful for any such purchaser or purchasers of any such manures or fertilizers, provided that he be not a manufacturer, manipulator, or agent of either, to take from any such unbroken packages or bags a sample, not exceeding 2 pounds, placing the same in bottle or bottles, jar or jars, which shall then be corked tightly and forwarded to the Maryland Agricultural College for analysis; that it shall not be lawful for the said agricultural college or its chemists to previously demand of any such purchaser or purchasers so sending said sample or samples for analysis, to give any advices, information or statement to the said college or its chemists as to any analysis found on the original unbroken packages or bags from which said sample or samples were taken, or the name or names of any individual, representative, agent, or corporation or firm from which said manures or fertilizers were purchased; and it shall be the duty of the agricultural college to have its proper and authorized chemist to at once make a full and complete analysis of the manures or fertilizers contained in such bottles, jar or jars, and within thirty days thereafter return to such person or persons from whom the sample or samples were received a full and complete analysis of the said manures or fertilizers sent for analysis; and it shall be unlawful for any individual or any representative or agent of any corporation or firm, or any corporation or firm itself, to have, either directly or indirectly, communication with the agricultural college or its chemist, agent, or representative, or the sender of any sample with regard to the analysis of any manures or fertilizers sent to the agricultural college by the purchaser or purchasers thereof for analysis under the provisions of this section, nor shall the agricultural college nor its chemists nor its agent or agents or the sender of any sample furnish any information or communicate with any manufacturer of fertilizers about any such samples submitted for analysis until after a report of said analysis shall have been duly furnished to the applicant for such analysis under this section: Provided, That all samples sent to the Maryland Agricultural College by any purchaser or purchasers shall be drawn from at least 5 per cent of the total number of bags purchased,

these samples to be thoroughly mixed in a clean, dry place, and a suitable sample shall be taken from said mixture and placed in a suitable vessel or vessels carefully closed, with an identifying label, and the same then taken or sent by safe carriage to the said college for analysis. Every sample for analysis by the State chemist as provided for by this section shall be fully described in forins to be furnished by said chemist free of charge, said description giving a full and complete statement of the time and place of sampling, of all marks on the bags or packages thereof, and all of the facts relating to the same; said description and statements shall be made under affidavit before a justice of the peace or notary public, and the same shall be retained as confidential by said justice or notary until required by this act to be sent to the State chemist: Provided further, That the purchaser or purchasers sending such sample or samples of fertilizer shall withhold said description or descriptions of said sample or samples until he has received the report of the said State chemist of the analysis of the same. Any person or persons receiving an analysis from the State chemist under this act shall immediately thereafter forward to him the statement required by this act to be made at the time of taking the sample or samples; and any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of $100; and any manufacturer, agent, or representative who shall be convicted of making false and fraudulent representations as to the quality and constituent elements of any fertilizers by the printed analysis upon any such bag or package shall be fined $100 for the first offense and $200 for every subsequent offense thereafter; and the report of the analysis of any such sample of fertilizer sent to the agricultural college for examination under this act shall be prima facie evidence as to the quality of the lot of fertilizer from which said sample was taken.

SEC. 7. The funds received by the comptroller from the licenses issued under this article shall be paid into the treasury and be set apart as a specific fund to pay the cost and expenses of conducting the analysis provided for in section 5, and the treasurer shall semiannually pay over to the Maryland Agricultural College the money received from said licenses; provided that the amount paid in any one year shall not be more than at the rate of section 15 for each sample of fertilizer analyzed by said college.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of all State's attorneys to prosecute all persons accused of violating any of the provisions of this article.

Article XLVIII. SEC. 51. A State horticultural department is established for the State of Maryland; its purpose is to suppress and eradicate the San Jose scale, peach yellow, pear-blight, and other injurious dangerous insect pests and plant diseases throughout the State of Maryland.

SEC. 52. The professor of entomology, the professor of vegetable pathology, and the professor of horticulture of the Maryland Agricultural College and Experiment Station shall be the State entomologist, State pathologist, and State horticulturist, respectively.

SEC. 53. The said horticultural department shall be under the control of the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College and Experiment Station, to whom the officers created under this subtitle shall be responsible. The salary of the State entomologist and State pathologist shall be fixed by the said board of trustees, and the said board shall likewise fix the compensation of any assistant or assistants, employee or employees, and control all expenses thereof. The expenses of said department shall be paid out of an appropriation hereinafter provided for, and said board of trustees are invested with all powers necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this subtitle; but no expenses shall be incurred beyond the amount appropriated.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Constitution (1780), chapter 5: SEC. 2. Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtne, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them, especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of

humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frngality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings: sincerity, good humor, and all social affections and generous sentiments among the people.

Acts and Resolves, 1863, chapter 166: SECTION 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby accepts the grant offered to it by the United States, as set forth and defined in the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, said act being chapter 130 of the statutes of the United States, passed at the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, upon the terms and conditions contained and set forth in said act of Congress; and the governor of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice thereof to the Government of the United States.

SEC. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and instructed to receive, by himself or his order, from the Secretary of the Interior or any other person authorized to issue the same, all the land scrip to which this Commonwealth may be entitled by the provisions of the before-mentioned act of Congress.

SEC. 3. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized and instructed to appoint a commissioner, whose duty it shall be to locate, without unnecessary delay, all the land scrip which may come into the possession of the Commonwealth by virtue of this act. and to sell the same from time to time on such terms as the governor and council shall determine. Said commissioner shall give a bond, with sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of $50,000, to be approved by the governor and council, that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, and shall render full and accurate returns to them, at the end of every six months, or oftener if required to do so by them, of his proceedings under this act. The compensation of said commissioner shall be fixed by the governor and council, and shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth; and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrants therefor. SEC. 4. All moneys received by virtue of this act, for the sale of land serip, shall be immediately deposited with the treasurer of the Commonwealth, who shall invest and hold the same in accordance with the fourth section of the aforementioned act of Congress. The moneys so invested shall constitute 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. (Approved April 18, 1863.)

Acts and Resolves, 1863, chapter 220: Marshall P. Wilder [and thirteen other persons mentioned by name], their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricul tural College, the leading object of which 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 order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life, to be located as hereinafter provided, and they and their successors, and such as shall be duly elected members of said corporation, shall be and remain a body corporate by that name forever. And for the orderly conducting of the business of said corporation the said trustees shall have power and authority, from time to time, as occasion may require, to elect a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers of said corporation as may be found necessary, and to declare the duties and tenures of their respective offices; and also to remove any trustee from the same corporation, when, in their judgment, he shall be rendered incapable, by age or otherwise, of discharging the duties of his office, or shall neglect or refuse to perform the same; and, whenever vacancies shall occur in the board of trustees, the legislature shall fill the same; provided nevertheless, that the number of members shall never be greater than fourteen, exclusive of 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, each of whom shall be ex officio a member of said corporation.

SEC. 2. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to determine at what times and places their meetings shall be holden, and the manner of notifying the trustees to convene at such meetings; and also, from time to time, to elect a president of said college, and such professors, tutors, instructors, and other officers of said college, as they shall judge most for the interest thereof, and to determine the duties, salaries, emoluments, responsibilities, and tenures of their several offices. And the said corporation are further empowered to purchase or erect, and keep in repair, such houses or other buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said college; and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders, and by-laws, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, with reasonable penalties, for the good govern

ment of the said college, and for the regulation of their own body, and also to determine and regulate the course of instruction in said college, and to confer such appropriate degrees as they may determine and prescribe; provided nevertheless, that no corporate business shall be transacted at any meeting unless onehalf, at least, of the trustees are present.

SEC. 3. The said corporation may have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at their pleasure, and all deeds sealed with the seal of said corporation and signed by their order, shall, when made in their corporate name, be considered in law as the deeds of said corporation; and said corporation may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal, or mixed, and may prosecute the same to final judgment and execution, by the name of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College; and said corporation shall be capable of taking and holding in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal, provided that the clear annual income of the same shall not exceed $30,000.

SEC. 4. The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and personal, of which the said corporation shall be seized and possessed, shall be appropriated to the uses of said college, in such manner as shall most effectually promote the objects declared in the first section of this act, and as may be recommended from time to time by the said corporation, they conforming to the will of any donor or donors, in the application of any estate which may be given, devised, or bequeathed for any particular object connected with the college.

SEC. 5. The legislature of this Commonwealth may grant any further powers to, or alter, limit, annul, or restrain, any of the powers vested by this act in the said corporation, as shall be found necessary to promote the best interests of the said college; and more especially may appoint and establish overseers or visitors of the said college with all necessary powers for the better aid, preservation, and government thereof. The said corporation shall make an annual report of its condition, financial and otherwise, to the legislature at the commencement of its session.

SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall determine the location of said college, in some suitable place within the limits of this Commonwealth, and shall purchase, or obtain by gift, grant, or otherwise, in connection therewith, a tract of land containing at least 100 acres, to be used as an experimental farm, or otherwise, so as best to promote the objects of the institution; and in establishing the by-laws and regulations of said college, they shall make such provision for the manual labor of the students on said farm as they may deem just and reasonable. The location, plan of organization, government, and course of study prescribed for the college shall be subject to the approval of the legislature.

SEC. 7. One-tenth part of all the moneys which may be received by the State treasurer from the sale of land scrip, by virtue of the provisions of the one hundred and thirtieth chapter of the acts of the Thirty-seventh Congress at the second session thereof, approved July 2, 1862, and of the laws of this Commonwealth, shall be paid to said college and appropriated toward the purchase of said site or farm; provided, nevertheless, that the said college shall first secure, by valid subscription or otherwise, the further sum of $75,000 for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings thereon, and upon satisfactory evidence that this proviso has been complied with, the governor is authorized, from time to time, to draw his warrant therefor.

SEC. 8. When the said college shall have been duly organized, located, and established, as and for the purposes specified in this act, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer each year, on the warrant of the governor, two-thirds of the annual interest or income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the act of Congress named in the seventh section of this act, and the laws of this Commonwealth accepting the provisions thereof, and relating to the same.

SEC. 9. In the event of a dissolution of said corporation, by its voluntary act at any time, the real and personal property belonging to the corporation shall revert and belong to the Commonwealth, to be held by the same, and to be disposed of as it may seem fit, in the advancement of education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. The legislature shall have authority at any time to withhold the portion of the interest or income from said fund provided in this act, whenever the corporation shall cease or fail to maintain a college within the provisions and spirit of this act and the before-mentioned act of Congress, or for any cause which they may deem sufficient. (Approved April 29, 1863.)

Ibid., 1864, chapter 223: SECTION 1. The corporate name of "The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College," shall hereafter be "The Massachusetts Agricultural College,"