A02674
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
918
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SCHMITT, DIAMOND, RYAN, KAUFFMAN, RIGBY, IRVIN,
PICKETT, ZIMMERMAN, NEILSON, KEEFER, GROVE, MASSER AND
GILLEN, MARCH 25, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS,
MARCH 25, 2019
AN ACT
Repealing the act of May 20, 1857 (P.L.617, No.658), entitled
"An act making an Appropriation from the State Treasury, in
aid of the Farmers' High School."
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of May 20, 1857 (P.L.617, No.658),
entitled "An act making an Appropriation from the State
Treasury, in aid of the Farmers' High School," is repealed:
[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,
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shall be in proportion to their number of taxables respectively,
if such number shall apply.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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accompanied with such information as may be useful in the case.
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.]
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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