Pennsylvania Act 1857-658 — FARMERS' HIGH SCHOOL - APPROPRIATION TO

Act text

AN ACT

Making an Appropriation from the State Treasury, in aid of the Farmers' High School.

WHEREAS, The Farmers' high school of Pennsylvania has secured from various sources, in aid of the objects of the institution, in addition to two hundred acres of land donated, a fund of twenty-five thousand dollars.

Section 1. Admission of pupils

The admissions to said school, from the several counties, shall be in proportion to their number of taxables respectively, if such number shall apply. 1857, May 20, P.L. 617, Sec. 1.

Section 2. Additional appropriation

That the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated to said institution, to be paid as hereinafter provided. 1857, May 20, P.L. 617, Sec. 2.

Section 3. Payment regulated

That whenever it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the governor, that said high school shall have received from some other source or sources one thousand dollars or upwards, the state treasurer shall pay to said school an equal sum, independent of the appropriation made in the first section, and so on until a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the preceding appropriation, shall have been appropriated to said school; Provided, That the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be subscribed within three years from the passage of this act. 1857, May 20, P.L. 617, Sec. 3.

Section 4. Time of annual meeting of trustees

The time fixed by the original act of incorporation of the Farmers' High School, for the annual meeting and election of the trustees and officers of the said institution, be and the same is hereby changed, so that the same shall hereafter be on the first Wednesday of September in each year, instead of the time mentioned in the original act. 1857, May 20, P.L. 617, Sec. 4.

Section 5. Analysis of soils, etc.

There shall be established, in connection with the institution, an office where correct and perfect analysis shall be made, without charge, of all soils and manures which shall be sent by citizens of this Commonwealth for that purpose, and a correct report returned of the result of said analysis, accompanied with such information as may be useful in the case. 1857, May 20, P.L. 617, Sec. 5.

Section 6. Report of experiments

The said corporation shall furnish reports of the result of all experiments made with trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, soils and the breeding and rearing of stock, to at least one newspaper in each county in the Commonwealth for publication, the same to be furnished monthly, or immediately after the results of the investigations are known. 1857, May 20, P.L. 617, Sec. 6.