PART XV 
LAWS 
Relating to the duties of the department of Agricuhure; law 
defining what shall constitute a lawful fence; law requir- 
ing state enrollment of stallions kept for public 
service; law giving owner or keeper 
of a stallion a lien upon his 
get for service fee, 
and weed law 
Section 1657-a. Repeal. That section sixteen hundred and fifty-three 
(1653), sixteen hundred and fifty-four (1654), sixteen hundred and fifty- 
five (1655), sixteen hundred and fifty-six (1656), sixteen hundred and 
fifty-seven (1657), sixteen hundred and seventy-four (1674), sixteen hun- 
dred and eighty-two (1682) and sixteen .hundred and eighty-three (1683) 
of the code, and chapter forty-two (42) of the acts of the Twenty-seventh 
General Assembly, be and the same are hereby repealed. [2 8 G. A., 
ch. 58, § 18.] 
Sec. 1657-b. Department of agriculture. For the promotion of agri- 
culture, horticulture, forestry, animal industry, manufactures, and the 
domestic arts, there is hereby established a department to be known as 
the "department of agriculture," which shall embrace the district and 
county agricultural societies organized or to be organized under existing 
statutes and entitled to receive aid from the state, the state weather and 
crop service, and the offices of the dairy commissioners and state veteri- 
narian. [2 8 G. A., ch. 58, § 1.] 
Sec. 1657-c. State board of agriculture. The department shall be 
managed by a board, to be styled "the state board of agriculture," of 
which the governor of the state, the president of the state college of agri- 
culture and mechanic arts, the state dairy commissioner, and the state 
veterinarian shall be members ex officio. The other members of the board 
shall consist of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and one 
director from each congressional district, to be chosen as hereinafter pro- 
vided. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 2.] 
Sec. 1657-d. Agricultural convention. There shall be held at the 
capitol on the second Wednesday of December, 1900, and annually there- 
after, a state agricultural convention, composed of the state board of agri- 
culture, together with the president or secretary of each county or district 
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