;j^g4: BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sec. 3. The board of agriculture shall hold two sessions 

 annually, not exceeding four day each, one of which shall be 

 held within such convenient distance of the state college of 

 ao-riculture and the mechanic arts as will enable the students 

 and faculty thereof to attend and have the advantage of the 

 addresses and discussions before the board ; and the other 

 session shall be at such time and place as is, from time to 

 time, determined by vote of the board. The members of the 

 board shall have no compensation for their time or services ; 

 but their necessary expenses of travel and attendance at the 

 sessions, shall be paid, an exact account of which shall first 

 be rendered by each member, examined by a committee and 

 their report thereon accepted by the board. 



Sec. 4. The board may elect a suitable person secretary 

 thereof, and prescribe his duties, and in case of vacancy by 

 death or otherwise, the governor with advice of council, may 

 fill it ; all reports and returns required by law to be made by 

 county societies, shall be made to the secretary of the board; 

 his compensation shall be a thousand dollars a year, and his 

 necessary traveling and incidental expenses in the discharge 

 of his duties. He shall also be a member ex-otEcio of the 

 board of trustees of the state college of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts. 



Sec. 5. The board shall investigate all such subjects relat- 

 ino; to ao-riculture, horticulture and the arts connected there- 

 with, as they may think proper, and may take and hold in 

 trust, donations or bequests made to it for promoting agri- 

 cultural education or the general interest of husbandry ; and 

 annually, on or before the third Wednesday of January, by 

 its secretary, it shall submit to the legislature a detailed 

 report of its doings, with such statistics as he may collect, 

 and such recommendations and suggestions as the interests of 

 agriculture seem to require, and also an abstract or digest of 

 the returns of the several agricultural and horticultural socie- 

 ties, and cause to be printed under his directions, not more 

 than fifteen thousand copies of said report, and five thousand 

 of said abstract, five thousand of the former and one of the 



