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institute work of the year npnn blanks to l)e furnished }jy the State superintendent 

 of farmers' institutes; and any county farmers' institute society failing or refusing 

 thus to report, or to hold institute meetings as directed in this act, shall be deprived 

 of the benefit of any approijriation from the State or county for that year. 



Sec. 17. All county institute societies organized under this act shall be strictly non- 

 partisan and nonsectarian in every phase of their work, and no institute shall be 

 operated in the interest of any party, grange, alliance, farmers' club, religious sect, 

 or society, but for the equal good of all citizens and farming communities. No fee 

 shall be "charged for admission to institute meetings held under this act, but they 

 shall be public and free to all, except that the members of the society shall pay the 

 annual fee of not less than $ , as provided in section 4 of this act. 



STATE BOARD OF FARMERS' INSTITUTE DIRECTORS. 



Sec. 18. That immediately after the passage of this act the ex officio members of 

 the State board of farmers' institute directors, as provided in section :i, shall meet at 

 the State agricultural college and organize temporarily liy the election from their 

 number of a president, a vice-president, and a secretary, and shall prepare and pub- 

 lish rules for the organization of the county farmers' institute societies, shall issue 

 notices to the clerks of the courts of common pleas of the several counties for meet- 

 ings to organize county farmers' institute societies, and as soon as one-fourth of the 

 counties shall have organized societies, in accordance with the provisions of this act 

 and with the rules of the State board, the said board shall notify them to elect dele- 

 gates to a State convention to be held at a time to be fixed by the board, for the 

 purpose of electing four persons to membership in said board. The actual and nec- 

 essary traveling and hotel expenses incurred by the regularly accredited delegates in 

 attendance at the annual State convention held to elect members to the State board 

 of farmers' institute directors, shall l)e paid by the State treasurer upon the presenta- 

 tion of properly certified itemized vouchers approved by the secretary of the State 

 board of farmers' institute directors. 



Sec. 19. Within thirty days after the State convention and the election so held, the 

 State board of institute directors shall meet and organize by the election of a presi- 

 dent, a vice-president, and a secretary who shall also be superintendent of farmers' 

 institutes, and an executive committee of five of their number, of which the presi- 

 dent of the board and the superintendent of farmers' institutes shall be ex-ofRcio 

 members; all to serve for the period of one year, except that the secretary and super- 

 intendent of institutes shall be elected for a term of three years, and until his suc- 

 cessor is appointed, at a salary of $ per year. The board is also empowered to 



employ such clerks, stenographers, typewriters, and other employees for institute 

 service as it may from time to time find necessary. 



Sec. 20. The board shall have the power to fix the salaries of its officers, except that 

 of the secretary and superintendent of farmers' institutes otherwise provided for, and 

 to pay them out of such appropriations as it may receive; to employ and pay lecturers 

 who are to give instruction to the farmers of the State; to aid the county institute 

 societies, both by furnishing lecturers and paying such necessary expenses as they 

 may be authorized to incur for institute purposes, and to do such other acts and things 

 as farmers' institute directors as in their judgment will best promote the interests of 

 the institutes and make them most useful to the agricultural people of the State. 



Sec. 21. The board shall, on or l)efore September 1 of each year, report its pro- 

 ceedings for the entire year ending June .SO to the governor, showing in detail the 

 manner of its execution of the provisions of this act, and present such recomnienda- 

 tions as it may deem important to make, and such papers and addresses delivered 

 ))efore the farmers' institutes of the State as it may select, said proceedings, report, 



and papers to be printed and bound to the numlier of thousand copies by the 



public printer, and to l>e paid for as other public printing is paid. The said reports 

 shall be apportioned as follows: To the State board of farmers' institute directors, -; — 

 copies; to each member of the State senate and house of representatives, — — copies; 



to each county farmers' institute society organized under this act, copies; to the 



executive department of tlie State government and to the State library, each, 



copies; to the State agricultural college, the State agricultural experiment station, 

 the state board of agriculture, and to the Secretary of the National Department of 

 Agriculture, each, copies. 



Sec. 22. A statistical report of the farmers' institute work for the year ending 

 June HO, giving the numV)er of one-day institutes held during the past year, the 

 number of two-day institutes, and the numlier continuing three or more days; the 

 total number of sessions, with the average attendance per session; the cost of the 



