6 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



useful. Ten thousand copies of said report, in size not exceeding two 

 hundred pages, shall be printed; nine thousand bound in paper covers, 

 one thousand in cloth, one-half of those in paper covers for the use of the 

 legislatui'e, and the remainder, after reserving a suitable number for 

 foreign exchanges, for distribution under the direction of the board, 

 among the agricultural associations and the people of the state. 



Sect. 5. The compensation of the secretary shall be six hundred dol- 

 lars per annum and reimbursement for necessary expenses incurred in the 

 discharge of his duties, an account thereof to be first audited bj' the gov- 

 ernor and council. The secretary shall be an ex-offlcio member of the 

 board of trustees of the state college of agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts, also of the boai-d of commissioners provided for in section fifty of 

 chapter fourteen of the revised statutes relative to contagious disease in 

 cattle. 



Sect. 6. Such portions of sections one to six inclusive of chapty fifty- 

 eight of the revised statutes, and all other acts and parts of acts incon- 

 sistent with this act are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 7. This act shall take efl"ect when approved. 



[Approved March 18, 1880.] 



