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Sect. 3. The Board of Agriculture shall hold two sessions 

 annually, of not exceeding four days each, one of which shall be 

 held within such convenient distance of the State College of Agri- 

 culture and the Mechanic Arts as will enable the attendance of 

 the students and faculty of said college, so that they may have 

 the advantage of the addresses and discussions before the Board. 

 The other session shall be at such time and place as may be from 

 time to time determined by vote of the Board. The first meeting 

 under this act shall be held at such time and place as may be 

 determined by the secretary of the Board of Agriculture and act- 

 ing president of the college. 



Sect. 4. Members of the Board of Agriculture shall be paid 

 their actual necessary expenses incurred by travel and attendance 

 at the sessions aforesaid, an exact account of the same being first 

 rendered by each member through a committee of the Board and 

 reported thereon. But members shall receive no compensation 

 for time and services rendered. 



Sect. 5. The secretary of the Board of Agriculture is hereby 

 authorized to procure such aid and facilities as may be needful to 

 render the sessions useful and profitable to the public, the aggre- 

 gate expenses thereof not to exceed four hundred dollars annually. 



Sect. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistant with this act 

 are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 1. This act shall take effect when approved. 



Approved March 1, 1869. 



Of the farther doings of the Board at this session which are of 

 public interest, was a vote requiring the several agricultural 

 societies to expend, during the current year, one fourth of the 

 amount of bounty received during the year from the State, for the 

 establishment of farmers' clubs, or for agricultural lectures. The 

 Secretary was also instructed to endeavor to procure the enact- 

 ment of a law to prevent fraud in the sale of commercial manures. 

 The law which was enacted, together with the reasons which 

 governed those who framed it, and how and why it should be 

 enfoi'ced, will form the subject of a subsequent paper. 



The Board finally adjourned on the second of February. 



