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SEC. 8. That the Board of- Trustees shall annually elect a 

 Treasurer, who shall receive and disburse the funds of the Insti- 

 tution, and perform such other duties as shall be required of him, 

 and from whom they shall take such security for the faithful per- 

 formance of his duty, as necessity shall require; and it shall be 

 the duty of the said Board of Trustees, annually, on or before the 

 first of December, to make out a full and detailed account of the 

 operations of the Institution for the preceding year, and an ac- 

 count of all its receipts and disbursements, and report the same to 

 the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, who shall embody 

 said report in the annual report, which by existing laws, the said 

 Society is bound to make and transmit to the Legislature, on or 

 before the first Monday of January, of each and every year. 



SEC. 9. That it shall be lawful for the Pennsylvania State 

 Agricultural Society to appropriate out of their funds to the object 

 of this act, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, whenever 

 the same shall be required, and to make such further appropria- 

 tions annually, out of their funds, as will aid in the prosecution of 

 this object, and it shall be the duty and privilege of the said So- 

 ciety, at such times as they shall deem expedient by their com- 

 mittees, officers or otherwise, to visit the said Institution, and ex- 

 amine into the details of its management. 



SEC. 10. That the Act to Incorporate the Farmers High School 

 of Pennsylvania, approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno 

 Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, be and the 

 same is hereby repealed. HENRY K. STRONG, 



Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

 WM. M. HIESTER, 

 Speaker of Senate. 



APPROVED The twenty-second day of February, Anno Domini, 

 one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. JAS. POLLOCK. 



(The above is the present law, with the simple excep- 

 tion of the time of holding the annual meeting of Dele- 

 gates, which by act of Legislature, approved May 20th, 

 1857, was changed to the first Wednesda^n September. 

 And a subsequent act providing that five members shall 

 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.) 



MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



The following members of the Executive Committee, met 

 at Harrisburg, April 17th, 1855: Jas. Gowen, H. N. McAl- 

 lister, A. 0. Hiester, John Strohm, James Miles, Abraham 

 Melllvain, Isaac G. McKinley, Thomas P. Knox, George 



