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budget; whether we can use the money 

 for any other purpose as we have done 

 heretofore, so I really cannot say 

 whether I am for the method of send- 

 ing it through the Bureau or having 

 some of our members have the mem- 

 bers of our legislature introduce the 

 . Bill, and that is the question that I 

 would like to have the Association or 

 the Executive Committee to determine. 

 If I am on the Legislative Committee I 

 would want to know. 



President Baxter — ^You have heard 

 the report of your Legislative Com- 

 / mittee, what is your pleasure? A mo- 

 tion to receive the report and place it 

 on file will be in order. 



Dr. Baxter — I move that the report 

 be received and placed on file. 



Mr. Stone — I don't know whether it 

 is necessary to say what I want to say 

 before it is voted on or not. I think 

 we will have to offer that in the shape 

 our Bill has been offered in other years 

 and then it would pass into the hands 

 of our Treasurer, and if we do not pay 

 that $500 for that report we will have 

 it there to use for other things, like in 

 the Fair, or anything in the interest of 

 the Bee-Keepers' Association. 



In the Bill it reads: 



"Be it enacted by the People of the 

 State of Illinois, represented in the 

 General Assembly: That the Governor 

 shall appoint a State Inspector of 

 Apiaries, who shall hold his oflice for 

 the term of two years, and until his 

 successor is appointed and qualified, 

 and who may appoint one or more as- 

 sistants, as needed, to carry on the 

 inspection under his supervision. The 

 Inspector of Apiaries shall receive for 

 each day actually and necessarily 

 spent in the performance of his duties 

 the sum of four dollars, to be paid up- 

 on bills of particulars certified to as 

 ■ - correct by the said State Inspector of 

 Apiaries, and approved by the Gov- 

 ernor." 



Mr. Stone — Now, that covers every- 

 thing, and if we get it as outlined in 

 that list we will have to spend it for 

 those things and nothing further. If 

 we had not been given that right as I 

 have read we could not have done any- 

 thing to make that showing at the 

 State Fair, we could only have pub- 

 lished the report and have given it to 

 the bee-keepers, and that ends it; it 

 curtails all the usefulness of the Asso- 



ciation if we are cut short in what we 

 want to do with the money, for the 

 good of bee-keepers. 



Dr. Baxter — That is true, but under 

 that efficiency and economy proposi- 

 tion every dollar that is spent has got 

 to go through the budget; this society, 

 the State Horticultural Society, the 

 Livestock Association; by all of them 

 the budget is to be made. 



I believe we ought to make our 

 budget exactly like this: We ought 

 to have a fund for miscellaneous ex- 

 penses and it should be so stated so 

 that we can use them for anything else 

 we want to. It think it would be a 

 good idea for us to go down to see 

 what the State Horticultural Society 

 has done; they have got to have funds 

 for emergencies and we ought to have. 



President Baxter — I question if we 

 are under this plan if we can draw the 

 thousand dollars and use it. I think 

 we would have to draw it through the 

 State Auditor. 



Mr. Stone — It would stay in the 

 hands of the State Treasurer. Two 

 years ago they sent us the same 

 blanks; there is nothing in there 

 for us to fill out; we don't own any- 

 thing we have got to give an account 

 for; they wanted us to enumerate the 

 desks we have, etc. Two years ago 

 we got those blanks and took them 

 back to Mr. Bell and said we wanted 

 to be outside of that and he let us off. 

 We got our appropriation all right. 



Mr. Prather — May I ask a question 

 or two? When you go in for an ap- 

 propriation through the legislature do 

 you have to file with the Reference 

 Bureau this matter; is that com- 

 pulsory? 



Dr. Baxter — ^It is not. 



Mr. Prather — If you do file — is it not 

 possible to give more items in that 

 filing? 



Dr. Baxter — It would be possible. 



Mr. Prather — It seems to me this 

 ought to be left to the judgment of 

 your Legislative Committee, but if they 

 are going to file it with the legislative 

 committee they ought to have more 

 items and, if possible, as suggested by 

 your Secretary, get in something for 

 sundries. 



Mr. Stone — I do not understand that 

 binds us to anything. 



President Baxter — All in favor of the 

 motion say aye. 



