LmitAltY 



or 



STATE OF MAOE. 



An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a 



Board of Agriculture." 



Be it enacied by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislatur« 

 assembled, as follows : 



Section 1, The members of the Board of Agriculture, and the secretary 

 thereof, shall coutinue in office until the expiration of the term for which they 

 were elected. 



Sect. 2. The State Board of Agriculture shall, after tlie expiration of the 

 term of office of the present members, coDftist of members who sliall be elected 

 and classitied, as follows : one member may be elected by each incorporated 

 agricultural and horticultural society in the state, which maintains an annual 

 exhibition, and expends not less than one hundred and fifty dollars in premiums 

 for the encouragement of agriculture, horticulture and the arts connected 

 therewith. Said members shall hold their office for the term of three years from 

 the day of the annual meeting of the board, next after their election, except aa 

 hereinafter provided, and shall be elected by ballot at the animal meetings or 

 fairs of such societies, or atany regular meeting tiiereof called for such purpose ; 

 and they shall receive and produce as evidence of membership, a certidoatc of 

 election signt.^ by the president and secretary of such society, and also a cer- 

 tificate from the treasurer of the society, signed and sworn to, before a justice 

 of tlie peace, that the society which he represents has actually expended during 

 the previous year not less than one hundred and fifty dollars, as above re- 

 quired : prodded, however, that if the annual exliihition of such society shall 

 have been, by the .advice of the B >ard of Agriculture, merged in that of the 

 State Agricultural Society, the last named certificate shall not be required ; 

 and in case of any vacancy occurring in the representation of any society, the 

 same may be filled by appointment, by the president and secretary of such 

 society. 



Sect. 3. At the next annual meeting of the Board of Agriculture, the 

 '.rimembeis shall be divided as equally as may be, into three classes. The term 

 r;->of office of the first class shall expire at the end of one year, of the second class 

 at the end of two years, the members of each class to be designated by lot. 



Sect. 4. The Board of Agriculture shall meet at the State House in Au- 

 gusta, annually, on the third Wednesday of January, and they are herebj 



