134 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Section 15. The elective members of the state board of agriculture, 

 for attending the meetings of the board and for the special work pertaining 

 to the holding of the state fair, shall be allowed four dollars ($4) per day 

 and five cents per mile in going and returning from the place where the 

 businss is transacted, the claim for which in all cases shall be verified and 

 paid as provided in section eight (8). 



Section 16. A finance committee consisting of three members shall 

 be appointed by the executive council, whose duty it shall be to examine 

 and report on all financial business of the department of agriculture prior 

 to the annual convention thereof, and make their report to the governor. 

 No member of such committee shall be a member of the board. A reason- 

 able compensation, not exceeding four dollars (4), to each member for each 

 day actually and necessarily engaged in te performance of their duties, and 

 neccessary expenses incurred, shall be allowed such finance committee, to 

 be audited by the executive council and paid out of any funds in the state 

 treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such report shall be edited under 

 the direction of the executive council and published in accordance with 

 the provisions of one hundred 'and sixty three (163) of the code, and acts 

 amendatory thereof. 



Section 17. The premium list and rules of exhibition shall be deter- 

 mined and published by the board prior to the first day of April in each 

 year. 



Section 18. That section sixteen hundred and fifty-three (1653), six- 

 teen 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 hundred 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 Assembly, be and the same are hereby repealed. 



Section 19. That section sixteen hundred and seventy-nine (1679) of 

 the code, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the eleventh 

 line thereof the words "said society," and inserting in lieu thereof the 

 words "department of agriculture;" that section sixteen hundred and 

 eighty-one (1681), of the code, be and the same is hereby amended by 

 striking out of the fourth line thereof the words "agricultural society," 

 and inserting in lieu thereof the words "department of agriculture." 



Section 20. That where the words "board of directors of the state 

 agricultural society, occur in the code, or the ■acts amendatory thereto, the 

 same shall be construed to mean and refer to the state board of agri- 

 culture; 'and the words "state society" and "state agricultural society,"' 

 shall be construed to mean and refer to the department of agriculture. 



Section 21. There is hereby appropriated annually, from and after the 

 first day of January, nineteen hundred and one (1901), for the support of 

 the office of the department of agriculture, twenty-four hundred dollars 

 ($2400), and for insurance and improvements of buildings on the state 

 fair grounds the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall 

 be necessary, and the auditor of state shall 'draw a warrant therefor 



