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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. — 

 \_Ame.nded section. 



Skc. 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 witii 

 the President, 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, choose one of its 

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

 bers of the Board, prescribe their duties, fi.x; 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. 



Skc. 6. The Board of Agriculture sliall have power to appoint a suitable number of persons 

 to act as Marshals, who shall be, from twelve ociock noon of the day previous to the opening 

 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 agriculturalists, shall be appointed on said committees. 



Skc. S. 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 

 orovisions 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 jjassage. 



