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Pattison. I will offer it as a motion. The motion being seconded, 

 it was agreed to. 



The CHAIR: I will appoint Brother Herr, Brother Stout and 

 Brother Rodgers as that committee. 



MR. KERR: I have another matter to present to the Board, if 

 1 am in order. In the early days of the Board, you will notice by 

 reading the law, that one-third of the members' terms expired each 

 year, and they were succeeded by members whose terms were three 

 3'ears, and it was the practice in those days that they were divided 

 among the three divisions, each one holding office three years, so 

 that about an equal number of the terms expired in each year. We 

 have grown now, and have come in so irregularly, that the terms 

 are not at all equal, and I have just taken a little pains to look over 

 the list of those whose terms expired, and find that of those whose 

 terms expire in 1895, there are eleven members, in 1906 twenty-one 

 members, and those whose terms expire in 1907 twenty-one mem- 

 bers There are eight members whose terms have expired 1904 and 

 two members whose terms expired in 1903, and there are three 

 blanks that the year is not given. Now, in order to properly remedy 

 that, and possibly it had better be in the form of a motion, I would 

 suggest that those counties not filled. by membership dating from 

 1903 be added to the eleven, it will just make the terms each year 

 about balance, and there will be about twenty-one in each year, or 

 perhaps not more than twenty-two of any one year, by making their 

 terms run to 1908; I therefore move you that they be admitted for 

 three years from 1905, their terms to expire in 1908. 



Motion seconded. • ^i 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, these gentlemen who become 

 members of this Board are elected by the agricultural societies 

 and they come here on a certificate, duly certified by the proper 

 ofticers of each society, giving the date of the election when they 

 enter the Board. Now what have we to do with it? The authority 

 for their election comes from the societies. If they have neglected 

 their duty, how can we elect them here for a longer or shorter term 

 than is provided by law? I think this motion is out of order. I 

 think we have no right to act upon this at all; the law provides who 

 shall be members of the State Board of Agriculture. 



MR. HERR: Mr. Chairman, I think this Board governs its own 

 membership; more than once we have decided on similar questions. 

 The county societies send their representatives here and we elect 

 them as members, and we fix the date three years from their former 

 term, and when there is an inequality, the Board has the power to 

 correct that inequality; it will give them three years from this date, 

 I did not suggest, nobody proposes to suggest, that we elect mem- 

 bers that are not sent here from their proper societies as repre- 

 sentatives. 



MR. HUTCHISON: I would just ask the Secretary to read that 

 section of the act, and let us then be guided by the law. 



MR. NELSON: I would like to have that question settled once 



