State Agricultural Society. 7 



Societies, as the convention may deterniinehv a majority vote, wlietiier such persons Bhall have 

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

 [Amended section. 



Sec. '.'. The Board of Agriculture shall, at its first meeting aft«r its election, be divided by 

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

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

 the {'resident, to be elected at the State Agricultural Convention annually thereafter; the 

 Directors to hold office three years. 



Skc. 4. The Board of Agriculture may, in the absence of the President, ohooBe one of its 

 other members temporary Chairman. They fhall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not mem- 

 bers of the Board, ])rescribe their duties, fix their pay; and the said Treasurer and Secretary 

 shall be sul>ject to removal at any time by a m.ijority of said Board. 



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

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

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

 industry and products of (he State ; and, oh or before the tirst day of .January of each year in 

 whi(!h 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 fiinils 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. 



Skc. f). 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 opening 

 of the e.xliibition, 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. 



Skc. 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. 



Sw. 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. 



Skc. ]0. All Acts or provisions in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 



Skc. 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. 



Tht People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembli/, do enact as follows : 



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

 aiiproj)rialed, 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 

 Association; the Santa Clara Valley .\gricultural Society; the Sonoma and Marin District Agri- 

 cultural Society; the San .Joaquin Valley District Agricultural Society ; the Northern District 

 Agricultural, Horticultural, and Mechanical Society; the Upper Sacramento Agricultural Socie- 

 ty; 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 apjiropriated to such Society, and the Treasurer shall pay the 

 same. The money so drawn liv each Society shall be used for the i)nri>osc of paying premiums 

 for the various agricultural, mineral, mechtinical, and manufacturing products of this State, and 

 for no other ]>urpose. 



Skc. 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 offi<'ers 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 rejxirt to said Boanl of Agriculture the transac- 

 tions of said Society, including the list of article exhibited and premiums awarded; the amount 



