50 Transactions of the 



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 l>y each society 

 shall be used for the purpose of paying premiums for the various agri- 

 cultural, mineral, meehanical, 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 Societ}', 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; ami on or before the 

 first day of December of each year they shall report to said Board 

 of Agriculture the transactions of said society, including the list of 

 articles exhibited and premiums awarded; the amount of receipts and 

 expenditures of the year, and the objects for which the expenditures 

 have been made; the new industries inaugurated and new products pro- 

 duced, and any and all other facts showing the development of the 

 resources of the district embraced in such society, which they may 

 deem worthy of such report. 



Sec 3. The State Board of Agriculture shall report annually, on or 

 before the fifteenth day of January, to the Governor of the State, the 

 full transactions of the State Society, including the facts and statistics 

 collected and information gained on the subjects for which it exists; 

 also including the report from each of the above named societies, or so 

 xnuch thereof as said Board may deem of value for publication. 



Sec. 4. The Governor shall cause five thousand volumes of said 

 report of the State Board of Agriculture to be printed each year, at 

 the expense of the State, and paid for as other public printing, and 

 delivered to the State Agricultural Society for general distribution. 



Sec. 5. All laws or parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of 

 this Act are hereby repealed. 



Sec 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 

 passage. 



PLANTING SHADE TREES. 



To. give the following law as much prominence as possible, ami at the 

 same time give the efforts made by the Board to give it life and form, the 

 following circular is introduced here. It was sent, as indicated, to all 

 the Boards of Supervisors and the press, and many private individuals 

 of public spirit: 



Booms California State Board of Agriculture, \ 

 Sacramento, October 20th, 1872. j 



To the Board of Supervisors of the County of : 



Gentlemen: I am directed by the State Board of Agriculture to call 

 your attention to an Act to encourage the planting and cultivation of 

 shade and fruit trees upon the public roads and highways of this State, 

 approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. The fol- 

 lowing is a true copy of the Act referred to: 



