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The purpose of the department in requiring: the Province to bear a 

 share f)f llic expenses of tliese lecturers is (o cause theni to economize 

 their tiuie and to hiy out their series of meetings so as not to cause 

 undue traveling or expenses. 



The Dominion department requires that full reports of the work 

 done at each meeting by each speaker shall be made out by the insti- 

 tute director and be forwarded to the Dominion superintendent of 

 institutes. The national department of agriculture is endeavoring 

 to secure closer relations with the provincial directors of institutes 

 by arranging to pay to the deputy minister of agriculture or the 

 acting superintendent of farmers' institutes a certain annual sum 

 in aid of the institute work. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



The farmers' institute system in British Columl)ia was inaugurated 

 in 1897, and, as in the other Canadian Provinces, it is in connection 

 Avith and under the supervision of the deputy minister of agricul- 

 ture. The superintendent of institutes is appointed by the lieutenant- 

 governor in council, and is charged with the duties imposed by the 

 several acts establishing the farmers' institute system of the Province. 

 Inasmuch as the details of the entire system are fully set forth by 

 the various acts of the provincial assembly pro Abiding for institute 

 instruction, they are herewith presented in consolidated form as 

 arranged for convenience of reference by the deputy minister of agri- 

 culture and suiDcrintendent of institutes. 



ACTS OF ASSEMBLY RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FARM- 

 ERS' INSTITUTES. 



Her Majesty, liy and with tlie advice and consent of tlie le,i;islative assembly 

 of tlie Province of British Colinnbia, enacts as follows: 



Short Title. 



1. This act may be cited as the " Farmers" Institutes and Coojieration Act." 



Interpretation. 



2. In the construction of this act, and the rules and recjulatitms framed under 

 the authority thereof, the following wcjrds and expressions shall have the mean- 

 ings hereby assigned to them, unless the same be repugnant to or inconsistent 

 with the context (that is to say) : 



"The department" shall mean the deitartment of agriculture of the Province 

 of British Columbia. 



"The minister" shall mean the minister cf .-igriculture of the Province of 

 British Columbia. 



"The superintendent" shall mean the sui)erintendent cf the farmers' insti- 

 tutes in tlie Province of British Columbia. 



"Division" shall mean a division as set ft)rtli in Schedule A" of this act con- 

 taining districts. 



o Schedule (iiiiitted \'vu\i\ tliis publication. 



