LAWS OF MAINE, 



RELATING TO AGRICULTURE, AND OF DIRECT INTEREST 



TO FARMERS. 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 

 Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 58. 



Sec. 1. The board of agriculture consists of five members 

 at large appointed by the governor with advice of council, of 

 whom two at least shall be from the faculty of the state col- 

 lege of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and of a member 

 elected by the state agricultural society and one from each 

 county to be elected by ballot by any county agricultural or 

 horticultural society at its annual or other meeting called for 

 the purpose ; and they hold their offices three years from the 

 third Wednesday of January next after. 



Sec. 2. If there is more than one such society in any 

 county, the executive officers of the oldest shall designate a 

 time and place for a convention of five delegates, chosen at a 

 regular meeting from each society ; and the secretary of such 

 oldest society shall give written notice thereof to the secre- 

 tary of each other society. The convention shall be held 

 prior to the second Wednesday of December, elect a president 

 and secretary, and by ballot, a member of the board of agri- 

 culture for that county. If no election is thus made, the 

 secretary shall immediately send (o the governor and council 

 the names of two or more persons having the highest number 

 of votes ; and they shall elect one of them. The written 

 certificate of the secretary of the society or convention elect- 

 ing a member, shall be his credentials in the board. 



