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CHAPTER 72, GENERAL LAWS OF 1881. 



AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX (36), GENERAL LAWS OF ONE 

 THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE, (1873), RELATING TO 

 THE STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 



Section 1. That section (2) of said act is hereby amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



Sec, 2. There shall he annually printed five thousand copies of the 

 report of the State Horticultural Society. Provided the number of 

 printed pages of the same shall not exceed three hundred (300), which 

 report shall be made to the Legislature, and the Secretary of State shall 

 destribute the same as follows, to-wit: One thousand (1000) copies shall 

 be bound in cloth and distributed in making the customary exchanges 

 and in supplying one copy to every public library and kindred society or 

 scientific institution, and the balance to the State Horticultural Soci- 

 ety; four thousand (4000) copies in paper covers to be destributed as 

 follows: One copy to the editor of every periodical in this State, one (1) 

 copy to each member of the Legislature and the oflBcers thereof, and 

 each of the State officers; one hundred (100) copies to the State Agri- 

 cultural Society, five hundred (500) copies to the State Board of Im- 

 igration, fifty (50) copies to each County Horticultural Society, who 

 shall report an abstract of its proceedings for publication in said 

 volume to the State Horticultural Society, twenty-five (25) copies to 

 each County Agricultural Society, svho shall report annually to the 

 Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, as provided by statute, and 

 all?remaining copies to the State Horticultural Society, Provided that 

 the expense of such fpublication and "distribution shall not exceed in 

 any one year the sum of seven hundred and fifty (750) dollars. 



Sec. 2. Section three (3) of said act is amended to rear! as follows : 



Sec. 3. That the sum one thousand dollars ($1,000) be annually 

 appropriated, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to aid the 

 said Horticultural Society in the work of distributing said reports, 

 collecting data, specimens pertaining to Horticulture, providing a suit- 

 able place for its books, specimens and articles of the society, and for 

 payment of salary and expenses of its secretarv and committees for labor 

 actually performed bv them, and other uses that may, in the opinion of 

 the board of director^, be deemed necessary and proper. The said sum 

 shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the order of the President of 

 the said Horticultural Society. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



Approved March 7, 1881. 



