8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



(2()19) Expenses. !). The State Board of Agriculture shall certify to 

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

 the necessary 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. 



(2020) 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) rurchase Ratified. 2. The purchase of real estate made by 

 said Board, A. 1). 1S(;0, of \yilliam A. Otis and others, consisting of 

 thirty-si.x acres of the northwest quarter of section thirty-six. township 

 sixteen, range three east, in Marion County, are hereby ratilied 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 exem'pt 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 1S02, 1S03 and 1804; and the Treasurer of State shall 

 refund to said Board of Agi'iculture the amount of State taxes collected 

 upon said real estate for the years aforesaid. 



(202.'?) Yearly Appi-opriation. 4. The sum of ten thousand dollars 

 (.t;iO,( 00) 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 President, attested by the 

 Secretary of the said P.oard. 



(2()23a) 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 agricultm-al associations of this State, 

 oi-ganized agi'eeably to llie provisions of "An act for the encouragement 

 of agriculture," approved Fcltruary IT. ls."t2. shall be exempt from taxa- 

 tion: I'rovided, that when the same shall cease to be used or occupied 

 exclusively for the purpose specifically set out in said act. approved 

 Februiiry 17, ].sr»2, or shall fail in any way to comi>ly with the provisions 

 thereof, the same shall cease to be exempt li-om tjixation. 



(20211 Boom for Specimens. 2. The (iovernor is hereby directed to 

 si'lect a convenient room in the Cajtitol. or in any building that ni;iy lie 



