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Section 5. They shall investigate such subjects, relating to im- 

 provements in agriculture in the State, as they may find proper, and 

 take, hold in trust, and exercise control over donations or bequests 

 made to them for the promotion of agricultural and general interest 

 of husbandry. 



Section 6. They may prescribe forms for, and regulate returns 

 from local agricultural societies, and furnish to the officers of each 

 such blanks as they deem necessary to secure uniform and reliable 

 statistics. 



Section 7. They shall annually, on or before the fourth day of 

 January in each year, by their president or secretary, submit to the 

 General Assembly, a detailed report of their doings, with such rec- 

 ommendations and suggestions as the interests of agriculture may 

 require. 



Section 8. The secretary of the board shall, in each year, cause to 

 be made and published, for distribution, as full an abstract of the 

 returns from local societies as the board may deem useful. 



Section 9. The secretary shall have a permanent office at the cap- 

 ital, under the control and supervision of the board, which shall be 

 supplied and maintained at the expense of the State. 



This act shall take effect on the fourth Wednesday of January 

 next ensuing. 



Approved— The 8th day of May, A. D. 1876. 



JOHN F. HARTRANFT. 



CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE 

 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



190.. 



Office of the Agricultural Society. 



County, Pa. 



This will certify. That 



of County of was this day 



to represent this Society in the I'ennsylvania State 



Board of Agriculture, for the term of three years, commencing from 

 and on the fourth Wednesday of January, 190. . ; and that the said 



