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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Secrei!»ry"ii 

 jeporl. 



LAW REGARDING REPORTS. 



1883, }). 184, No. 113, .Sec. L Tlie secretary of the State board of 

 agriculture sliall report to the le^'ishiturc at every regular session 

 thereof, and to the governor on the first Wednesday of January of 

 each year when the legislature is not in session, which report shall 

 embrace all statements, accounts, statistics, prize essays, and other 

 information relative to agriculture in general. [)roeeedings of the 

 State board of agriculture, of the State agricultural college and 

 farm, of the State agricultural society, and of the county and dis- 

 trict agricultural societies, to be approved by the board; that eight 

 thousand copies of this report shall be printed and bound annually 

 prior to the first day of June and sliall be immediately placed at 

 the dis posal of the State board of agriculture; four thousand copies 

 to be distributed by the secretary of said State board of agriculture 

 as the board shall direct, and the remaining four thousand C()})ies 

 to be distributed prior to the first day of September after publica- 

 tion by the secretary of the board, to the secretary of the State 

 agricultural society, to the secretary of the State grange and to 

 the secretaries of the various district and county societies, as 

 equally as may be according to the ])opulation of said counties, to 

 be by said secretaries distributed among the various viewing com- 

 mittees of county and district fairs, giving one volume of said 

 report to each of said committees as shall be i)resent and discharge 

 the duties of the office on the day of the county and district fairs; 

 and in addition to the foregoing there shall be a number of copies 

 of said report equal to the number of reports bound as joint docu- 

 ments, which shall be disposed of in the same maimer as the joint 

 documents ; also a sufficient number of copies to supply crop cor- 

 respondents with one copy each, which shall be distributed by the 

 Secretary of State. 



Sec. 21 (1877, No. 170, §l:i). Enacts that there shall be pub- 

 cop es of report, jjgj^g^ g^^]^ ^ number of copics (additional to those otherwise pro- 

 vided for of the reports of the several officers, boards of officers, 

 and institutions making reports, as they nuiy desire, not excei ding 

 five hundred copies, to be distributed by them in their discretion : 

 Provided further, That the board of State auditors may in their 

 discretion order an additional number of co})ies of any of said 

 reports published, not exceeding three hundred copies, which shall 

 be placed at the disposal of the officers makiiig the reports. 



AddUloual 



ANNUAL REPORT OF ST-VIE OFFICERS — BOARDS, AND PUBLIC INSTI- 



TIONS. 



Annual reporw. g 354, (231.) Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the several officers 

 and boards of officers of this State, and also of the several public 

 institutions thereof, from whom annual reports are now or may 

 hereafter be refprired, to make their respective annual reports to 

 the governor, and for tlie period covered by the fiscal year for the 

 treasury, as established by section one of this act, and to cause their 

 respective reports to be placed in the hands of the printer of the 

 laws of this State, for publication, as soon as practicable after the 

 close of the fiscal year. 



