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provided, said convention to be held in March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, 

 may admit any person or persons representing any of said County or District Agricultural 

 Societies, as the convention may determine by a majority vote, whether such persons shall have 

 been elected by their respective County or District Societies, as provided in this Act or not. — 

 [Amended section. 



Sec. 3.- The Board of Agriculture shall, at its first meeting after its election, be divided by 

 lot into three equal portions (omitting the President), one portion to continue in office one year, 

 one portion two years, and one portion three years; one-third of the number, together with the 

 President, to be elected at the State Agricultural Convention annually thereafter; the Directors 

 to hold office three years. 



Sec;. 4. The Board of Agriculture may, in the absence of the President, choose one of its 

 other members temporary Chairman. They shall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not members 

 of the Board, prescribe their duties, fix their pay; and the said Treasurer and Secretary shall 

 be subject to removal at any time by a majority of said Board. 



Sec. 5. The Board of Agriculture shall use all suitable means to collect and diffuse all classes 

 of information calculated to aid in the development of the agricultural, stock raising, mineral, 

 mechanical, and manufacturing resources of the State; shall hold an annual exhibition of the 

 industry and products of the State ; and, on or before the first day of January of each year in 

 which the Legislature shall be in regular session, they shall furnish to the Governor a full and 

 detailed account of all its transactions, including all the facts elicited, statistics collected, and 

 information gained on the subject for which it exists; and also a distinct financial account of all 

 funds received, from whatever source, and of every expenditure, for whatever purpose, together 

 with such suggestions as experience and good policy shall dictate for the advancement of the 

 best interests of the State; the said reports to be treated as other State documents are. 



Sec. 6. The Board of Agriculture shall have power to appoint a suitable number of persons 

 to act as Marshals, who shall be, from twelve o'clock noon of the day previous to the ojiening of 

 the exhibition, until noon of the day after the close of the same, vested with all the powers and 

 prerogatives with which Constables are invested, so far as acts or offenses committed within, or 

 with reference to, or in connection with, the exhibition are concerned. 



Sec. 7. The Board of Agriculture may, in its discretion, award premiums for the best culti- 

 vated farms, orchards, vineyards, gardens, etc.; provided, that said Board shall not audit, allow, 

 or pay any amount exceeding one thousand dollars, in any one year, for traveling expenses of 

 Visiting Committees in examining said farms, etc.; provided further, that no person, except 

 practical agriculturists, shall be appointed on said committees. 



Sec. 8. It shall be optional with any to whom a premium is awarded to receive the article 

 named, or its equivalent (as affixed), in coin. 



Sec. 9. The State Agricultural Society shall have power, at its first annual meeting after the 

 passage of this Act, to make such alterations in its Constitution as shall make it conform to the 

 provisions of this Act. 



Sec. 10. All Acts or provisions in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 11. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



AN ACT 



FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND OTHER INDUSTRIES, AP- 

 PROVED MARCH TWENTY-FIRST, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO. 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars for the State Agricultural Society; the sum of 

 three thousand dollars for the Bay District Agricultural Society; the sum of two thousand dol- 

 lars for each of the following named Societies, viz: The Los Angeles District Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation ; the Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society ; the Sonoma and Marin District Agricultural 

 Society ; the San Joaquin Valley District Agricultural Society ; the Northern District Agricultural, 

 Horticultural, and Mechanical Society ; the Upper Sacramento Agricultural Society ; the Siskiyou 

 County Agricultural Society; and the Bay District Horticultural Society; and the California 

 Vine-growers' and Wine and Brandy Manufacturers' Association, for each of the years eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Upon presentation of the 

 requisition of the President and Secretary of either of the Societies above named to the State 

 Controller, the Controller shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of such Society for 

 the amount appropriated to such Society, and the Treasurer shall pay the same. The money so 

 drawn by each Society shall be used for the purpose of paying premiums for the various agricul- 

 tural, mineral, mechanical, and manufacturing products of this State, and for no other purpose. 



Sec. 2. The Directors of each of the above named Societies, except the State Agricultural 

 Society, shall each year report to the State Board of Agriculture the name and post-office address 

 of each of the officers of such Society, on or before the first day of May; and on or before the 

 first day of December of each year they shall report to said Board of Agriculture the transac- 



