HORTICULTURAL LaWS OF OREGON. 159 



of fruit growers, and aid them in the Organization of proper associa- 

 tions beneficial to the growing and marketing of fi'uits. The President 

 shall preside at all the meetings of the board, and may call special 

 meetings whenever an emergency may require it. He shall make an 

 annual report to the appointing board of the general condition of the 

 fruit interests of the State and success of the commissioners in the 

 work of exterminating pests and executing the law. [L. 1889, p. 126, §2; 

 L. 1895, p. 34, §2; L. 1899, p. 56,§ 2; B. & C. §4177.] 



§ 5472. Secretary of Board, His Salary — Treasurei' — Oath of Members. 



Said board shall employ without their number a secretary, who shall 

 exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred upon him by this 

 act, and whose compensation shall not exceed $100 per month, to be 

 paid in the same manner as other state officers. Said board shall also 

 elect from their own number a treasurer. Before entering upon the 

 discharge of his duties, each member of the board shall make and 

 subscribe an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and 

 of the State of Oregon, and to diligently, faithfully, and impartially 

 discharge the duties of his office, which said oaths shall be filed with 

 the secretary. The secretary shall make and subscribe a like oath, 

 which shall be filed with the treasurer of the board. [L. 1899, p. 127, § 3; 

 L. 1895, p. 34, §3; B. & C. §4178; L. 1905, c. 222, p. 385, §6.] 



§ 5473. Each Member May Appoint Deputies — Their Authority. 



Each member of the State Board of Horticulture shall have author- 

 ity to appoint, whenever it shall seem to him expedient, a special deputy 

 or deputies, who shall be empowered to discharge any and all the duties 

 prescribed for the members of said board in section 5487, but the work 

 and authority of said deputies shall be confined to the districts of the 

 commissioners by whom they are respectively appointed. [L. 1903, 

 p. 251, §1.] 



§ 5474. Compensation of Deptities. 



Any deputy appointed under the authority conferred by this act 

 shall receive as compensation for his Services $2.00 per day for each 

 day actually spent in the Performance of his duties as such deputy, and 

 all Claims for compensation of such deputies shall be audited and paid 

 in the same manner as claims of members of the Board of Horticulture. 

 [L. 1903, p. 251, §2.] 



§ 5475. Expense, How Paid. 



Any expense incurred under the provisions of section 5474 of this 

 act shall be paid out of the appropriation allowed to the State Board 

 of Horticulture. [L. 1903, p. 251, §3.] 



§ 5476. Board May Receive Donatione, Etc., and Select Lecturers, Meet- 

 ings of. 



The board may receive, manage, use, and hold donations and bequests 

 of money and property for promoting the objects of its formation. It 

 shall meet on the second Monday of April and October in each year, and 

 as much oftener as it may deem expedient, for consultation on and 

 for the adoption of those measures that will best promote the horti- 

 cultural Industries of the State. It may, but without expense to the 

 State, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture 

 in each of the districts named in section 5470, for the purpose of encour- 

 aging and improving practical horticulture, and of imparting Instruc- 

 tion in the best methods of treating the diseases of fruits and fruit 



