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Programme of Annual Meeting. 



12. (a) President's report and discussion. 



(b) Report of executive committee. 



(c) Treasurer's report. 



(d) Auditor's report. 



(e) Suggestions as to holding of regular and supplementary meetings. 

 if) Election of officers. 



iu) Suggestions as to institute work. 

 (h) Addresses, papers, etc. 



13. At the close of the annual meeting the new board of directors shall meet 

 and transact such lousiness as may l)e necessary. 



14. Memorandum of proceedings shall be entered in the secretary's minute 

 book, and a copy of the same shall be sent by the secretary to the superintendent, 

 and shall be presented as a part of the report of the annual meeting. 



15. In case any institute shall from any cause fail to hold its annual meeting 

 at the time appointed the secretary may appoint a time for holding the same, 

 the same procedure to be observed as in the foregoing. 



Other General Meetings. 



16. All institutes organized under the act shall be strictly nonpartisan and 

 nonsectarian, and no institute shall operate in the direct interest of any party, 

 sect, or society, but for the equal good of all citizens of the farming community, 

 and no subject shall I)e presented at any institute or any discussion allowed of 

 a political or sectarian nature, nor shall any speaker be allowed in his lecture, 

 essay, or speech, or in any discussion to advertise wares or schemes in which 

 he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. 



17. It is not intended that regular delegates shall attend more than two meet- 

 ings in any institute district in one year at the expense of the department of 

 agriculture, and officers and directors are expected to lighten, as far as possible, 

 the expenses of the delegates while in their districts, but a greater number may 

 be arranged for if convenient and desirable. 



18. Should any institute require speakers at any other period of the year to 

 assist in holding supplementary meetings, application for such assistance shall 

 be made to the superintendent, and, if granted, the institute requiring the 

 services of such speakers shall pay all legitimate expenses of such persons 

 while attending said meetings. 



v.). All requests to the minister for assistance to hold agricultural, horticul- 

 tural, live stock, or dairy meetings shall, if possible, be made through the 

 secretaries of the district institutes, applicants stating what subjects they wish 

 the speakers to discuss. 



20. Every meeting of an institute, except the annual meeting, shall be adver- 

 tised by issuing jiosters, on which shall appear a programme of the meeting, 

 giving date and place of meeting, hour of opening, the names and addresses of 

 the speakers, the topic to be discussed by each, and all other particulars. A 

 copy of the poster shall be sent, two weeks previous to the date of the meeting, 

 to each postmaster and schoolmaster and to all places of imblic resort in the 

 district, and copies of the progrannne should l)e sent to each member of the 

 institute, and it shall be tile duty of officers, and directors to exercise due care 

 to insure the proper posting and distrilnition of said bills. A copy of each 

 poster and each programme shall be sent as soon as published to the superin- 

 tendent and to each speaker advertised. 



