An Act in relation to the Agricultural Experiment Station of this State. [Approved February 8, 1889.] The people of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Agricultural Experiment Station, organized and established by the Board of Regents of the State University, at and in connection with said State University, is hereby recognized, and shall be continued as a part of said State institution, and shall be conducted by a "Board of Control," hereafter provided for, for the purposes of acquiring and diffusing among the people useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science Said State University having been established in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. SECTION 2. The Board of Control of said Agricultural Experiment Station shall consist of the Board of Regents of the State University, and they shall organize said Board and choose its officers. SECTION 3. The Board of Control of said Agricultural Experiment Station shall, to the best of its ability, observe and carry out the requirements of "An Act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States, under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto," approved by the President, March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The said Board of Control shall have charge of the receipts, safe keeping and expenditures of all money appropriated by Congress for the benefit and use of said Agricultural Experiment Station; they shall be allowed and paid all necessary expenses incurred by them severally in the discharge of their official duties, but shall receive no salary or compensation for their services. SECTION 4. Said Board of Control shall make a report at the end of each fiscal year to the Governor, and twelve hundred copies thereof shall be printed at the State Printing Office for general distribution by said Board. The Governor shall transmit all said annual reports to the Legislature. SECTION 5. The Legislature of Nevada hereby gratefully assents to the purposes of all grants of money made heretofore, and all which may hereafter be made, to the State of Nevada by Congress, under the Act of Congress, the title of which is recited in Section three of this Act, and agrees that the same shall be used only for the purposes named in said Act of Congress, or Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Agricultural Experiment Station OF THE STATE OF NEVADA. FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1889. BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATION. LeRoy D. Brown H. L. Fish- Director Vice-Director Librarian --Superintendent of Mechanical Department -Agriculturalist and Horticulturalist - Chemist Entomologist and Botanist Farmer *Vice Hon. Thomas H. Wells, resigned, March, 1889. REPORT. RENO, NEVADA, November 15, 1889. To His Excellency, C. C. STEVENSON, Governor of Nevada. Sir: In accordance with Chapter 26 of the Statutes of Nevada, 1889, I have the honor to present the Second Annual Report of the Board of Control of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nevada. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. H. TAYLOR, Secretary of the Board of Control. We, the undersigned, duly appointed Auditors, do hereby certify that we have examined the books and accounts of the Nevada Experiment Station for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and find them correct, well kept and properly classified, and vouchers on file for all amounts expended as per financial report of the Secretary. TRENMOR COFFIN, E. T. GEORGE, Auditing Committee Board of Control.. [SEAL] We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that the above are the signatures of Trenmor Coffin and E. T. George, Auditing Committee of the Board of Control, to a true statement from the books of account of the institution named, and that the above is the seal of the State Agricultural Experiment Station of Nevada. H. L. FISH, |