6- BOARD 0? AGIUCULTTRE. 



empowered each year to elect a suitable person to act as secretary of the board, 

 and to prescribe and determine liis duties, and in case of vacancy by death or 

 otherwise, the governor with advice of his council, is hereby empowered to fill 

 the same. And all reports and returns rpquired by law to be made by said 

 societies, shall be made and returned to the secretary of said board. The 

 compensation of the secretary shall be eight hundred dollars per annum, and 

 such necessary traveling and incidental expenses as shall accrue in the dis- 

 charge of his duties, an account thereof being first audited and allowed by the 

 governor and council. And the compensation of the members of the board 

 shall be the same as that of members of the legislature, for a term not exceed- 

 ing ten days, provided that if a member of the board shall also be a member 

 or officer of the legislature, he shall receive compensation in but one capacity. 



Sect. 5. It shall be the duty of said board to investigate all such subjects 

 relating. to agriculture, horticulture and the arts connected therewith, in this 

 state, as they may think proper ; and it is hereby empowered to take, hold in 

 trust, and exercise control over any donation or bequests that may be made to 

 it for promoting agricultural education, or the general interests of husbandry ; 

 and the said board shall annually, on or before the first Wednesday of Janu- 

 ary, by its secretary, submit to the legialature a detailed report of its doings, 

 together with an abstract or digest of the returns of the several agricultural 

 and horticultural societies and of such statistics as he may be able to collect, 

 with such recommendations and suggestions as the interest of agriculture may 

 be deemed to require, and cause to be printed under his direction and control 

 cot more than ten thousand copies of the same, one thousand copies thereof 

 being for the use of the legislature, and the remainder for distribution under 

 the direction of the board among the people of the state. 



Sect. 6. The governor shall, from time to time, draw his warrant on the 

 treasurer for sucii sums of money as may be necessary to defray the salaries 

 and expenses provided for by this act, an account thereof having been first 

 rendered by the secretary of the board, and audited by the executive council ; 

 and a sum not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars annually is 

 hereby appropriated to meet such expenses. 



Sect. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sect. 8. This act shall take effect from and after ts approval by the 

 governor. 



[Approved April 6, 1857.] 



