§ 5713. New York state agricultural experiment station. 1. The institution known as the New York agricultural experiment station, located in the city of Geneva, for the purposes of promoting agriculture in its various branches by scientific investigation and experiment, established by chapter five hundred ninety-two of the laws of eighteen hundred eighty, shall continue to be controlled and managed by Cornell university under the supervision of the state university trustees. Said station shall be managed, controlled and administered by Cornell university, as the representative of the state university trustees, in the manner and with the powers provided by section fifty-seven hundred twelve of this chapter. Cornell university shall have the power to appoint a director and such other scientific and expert workers and employees deemed necessary to accomplish the objects of such experiment station. In such station, said university shall, besides conducting experiments for the promotion of agricultural science, perform and report to the commissioner of agriculture and markets such analyses and other scientific work as such commissioner may request and consider to be necessary for the administration of the provisions of the agriculture and markets law. The salaries and other expenses incurred by reason of such analyses and other scientific service shall be paid from funds appropriated for such purposes.

2. Cornell university is hereby authorized and empowered to publish from time to time bulletins giving information of the results of analyses made at such station of any commodity or substance analyzed thereat and may in like manner publish bulletins containing the results of such analyses heretofore made and unpublished.

3. In addition to the number of copies otherwise required by law, the commissioner of agriculture and markets may, with the approval of the governor, cause to be printed by the state printer such number of copies of any report of such station heretofore or hereafter made as he deems sufficient to meet the public demand therefor. The expense of printing such copies shall be paid out of the appropriation for legislative printing, as provided by law. Such copies shall be delivered to such commissioner and sold by him to the public at the actual cost thereof as determined by the comptroller.

4. The Cornell university is hereby designated as the institution within this state entitled to receive the benefits of the act of congress of the United States, approved March second, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with colleges established in the several states, under the provision of an act approved July second eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto." Such benefits of such act which this state is authorized thereby to apply to any college, institution or agricultural experiment station within this state are applied to Cornell university and this state consents that such appropriation, money, or benefits to or for the use of this state, or of any institution within this state, payable under or in pursuance of such act of congress, shall be paid to the treasurer of Cornell university who is the officer designated to receive the same, to be used by Cornell university in such proportion that nine-tenths thereof shall be applied to the use of the New York state college of agriculture and life sciences and one-tenth thereof to the New York state agricultural experiment station at Geneva. Such moneys shall be expended as provided in such act of congress. The department of taxation and finance shall keep an account of all moneys received by it in pursuance of such act of congress in a separate fund to the credit of the Cornell university and shall pay all moneys immediately upon receipt thereof by it to the treasurer of such university, upon the warrant of the comptroller issued upon the order of the said university.