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7. Each farmers' institute organized under tliis net shall be known as the 

 " [here insert the name of the district] Farmers' Institute," under wliich name 

 each institute shall lie a body politic and corporate. 



8. The officers shall t-onsist of a president, vice-president, and secretary- 

 treasurer, and sucli number til! directors as may be provided in the rules and 

 regulations framed under the authority of this act. who shall be elected annu- 

 ally, and who together shall constitute a lioard of directors, the majority of 

 which shall be practical farmers. 



9. The superintendent of farmers' institutes shall be an officer appointed by 

 the lieutenant-governor in council, to whom shall belong the duties assigned in 

 the rules and regulations passed under the authority of this act. 



10. Each member of an institute shall be entitled to receive a copy of "all pub- 

 lications published by or issued under the authority of the department of agri- 

 culture for the Province of British Coliunbia. 



11. The legislative assembly may each year set apart a certain sum of money 

 for aiding farmers' institutes whose returns have been transmitted and who 

 have complied with the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations that 

 may be passed liy the lieutenant-governor in coiuicil. To each institute whose 

 membership is shown to amount to from fifteen to one hundred a sum of fifty 

 cents for each paid-up member up to one hundred, and twenty-five cents for each 

 paid-up member over one hundred will be allowed : Provided, That in case the 

 amount so voted or set apart shall not be sufficient to cover tlie total amount of 

 apportionment in this manner, then the apportionment shall be made pro rata 

 on the same basis. 



12. The council of any nuuiicipality may grant money in aid of any duly 

 organized farmers' institute. 



13. Every farmers' institute shall be entitled to receive the moneys provided 

 for in section 11 of this act from the treasury of the Province tipon the following 

 conditions : 



(a) That the number of members is at least fifteen, each paying an animal 

 fee of not less than fifty cents. 



(&) That the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations approved by 

 the lieutenant-governor in comicil shall have been carefully observed. 



(c) That all re])orfs or returns required to be made under the jn-ovisions of 

 this act shall have been received to tlie satisfaction of the dejiartmenf. 



(rf) That at least two regular meetings and two supplementary meetings shall 

 be held during the year. 



14. The funds of the farmers' institutes, howsoever derived, shall not be 

 expended for any object inconsistent with those mentioned in section 4 of this 

 act, and shall n<it be paid out except authorized at a meeting of the board of 

 directors and upon an order signed by the i»resident, or in his absence by two 

 of the directors and the secretary-treasurer. In case payments are made by 

 cheque issued upon a chartered bank the cheque shall be signed by the president, 

 or in his absence by two directors and the secretary-treasurer. 



l.^>. Notwithstanding the jirovisions of any act in forc(> in this Province 

 upon application to the minister of ten or more resident and bona fide farmt'rs 

 of the district, such applicants may engage in and carry on, on a cooperative 

 basis, any of the following, viz: (a) A farmers' exchange for buying and selling 

 farm produce; (h) a cheese factory; (c) a creamei\v ; (d) a fruit-canning, 

 preserving, or evaporating factory; (c) a mutual credit association for the pur- 

 pose of receiving deposits and loaning money to its members; (f) or in any 

 other enterprise that may be api)roved by the lieutenant-governor in coiincil as 

 coming among the objects and within the meaning of this act, and such appli- 



