14 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



(2019) Expouses. 9. The State Board of Agriculture shall certify 

 to the Auditor of State the ordinary expenses of the Board proper, 

 iucluding the necessai'y personal expenses of their attendance on not 

 more than two meetings in any one year. The Auditor shall audit the 

 same, and, on his warrant, the Treasurer of State shall pay the same 

 out of any money appropriated for agricultural purposes. 



(2620) May Buy Land. 1. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture 

 is empowered to purchase and hold real estate, for the purpose of holding 

 State- Fairs and other uses of the Board, to an amount not exceeding 

 two hundred and forty (240) acres; and to sell any real estate it may hold, 

 for the purpose of reinvesting the proceeds in other real estate for the 

 same general objects. 



(2021) Purchase Ratified. 2. The purchase of real estate made by 

 said Board, A. D. 1800, of William A. Otis and others, consisting of 

 thirty-six acres of the northwest quarter of section thirty-six, township 

 sixteen, range three east, in Marion County, are hereby ratified and con- 

 firmed; and the said Board is empowered to hold the same for the 

 general objects of the Board; Provided, that nothing herein contained 

 shall authorize said Board to hold more than eighty acres, as aforesaid. 



(2022) Exempt from Tax. 4. The real and personal estate of said 

 Board shall be exempt from taxation; and the County Treasurer of 

 Marion County is authorized and required to pay to said Board the 

 amount of taxes assessed and collected upon said real estate for said 

 county for the years 1862, 1863 and 1864; and the Treasurer of State shall 

 refund to said Board of Agriculture the amount of State taxes collected 

 upon said real estate for the years aforesaid. 



(2023) Yearly Appropriation. 4. The sum of ten thousand dollars 

 ($10,000) annually is appropriated for the use of the Indiana State Board 

 of Agriculture, to be expended in the payment of premiums awarded by 

 the said Board, to be paid out of the State Treasury upon the first day 

 of April yearly, and to be receipted for by the Pi-esident, attested by the 

 Secretary of the said Board. 



(2G23a) Lands Exempt from Taxation. 1. That any part, parcel or 

 tract of land not exceeding eighty acres and the improvements thereon, 

 owned by county or district agricultural associations of this State, organ- 

 ized agreeably to the provisions of "An act for the encouragement of agri- 

 culture," approved February 17, 1852, shall be exempt from taxation: 

 Provided, that when the same shall cease to be used or occupied ex- 

 clusively for the purpose specifically set out in said act, approved Febru- 

 ary 17, 1852, or shall fail in any way to comply with the provisions 

 thereof, the same shall cease to be exempt from taxation. 



(2(524) Room for Specimens. 2. The Governor is hereby directed to 

 select a convenient room in the Capitol, or in any building that may be 

 erected by the State, if a suitable one can be found, and, if not, hire 

 one suitable for the deposit and safekeeping of such Minerals, soils, ores, 



