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Further regulations as to the election of the Committee 

 and its work are to be laid down by the Agricultural 

 Secretary. 



The members of the Committee as well as their sub- 

 stitutes are to be elected for six years, but may be re- 

 elected. 



Costs of conveyance are to be refunded to the mem- 

 bers of the Committee at the rate of i krone for each 5 

 kilometres travelled, or payment is to be made for a third- 

 class railway ticket where railways can be used. The mem- 

 bers of the Committee will receive as a daily allowance, 

 when engaged in meeting or travelling, 6 kroner if the 

 meeting or the journey has not occupied more than 

 twelve hours, otherwise 10 kroner. The Chairman of 

 the Committee will further receive in each financial year, 

 in compensation for office expenses, an amount corre- 

 sponding to 10 kroner for each case dealt with during the 

 said financial year. 



The expenses of the Committee are to be defrayed by 

 the Treasury. 



Should circumstances make it desirable, the Agricul- 

 tural Secretary is authorised to divide a County into two 

 districts, each furnished with its own Committee ; and if a 

 Committee so desires it, he is further authorised to appoint 

 a builder, who may be consulted by the Committee when 

 necessary. 



Any man or unmarried woman is entitled to the bene- 

 fits of this Act if he (or she) is in the main earning his 

 (her) living by ordinary agricultural work, including 

 gardening for other people, whether he (she) is serving a 

 master for some fixed period, or is earning his (her) sup- 

 port as a day labourer, or if he (or she) is, or has been, 

 the occupier of a holding of a size similar to those defined 

 under this Act. Country artisans, brickmakers, fishermen 

 who have not received fishery loans from the resources 

 of the State Loan Fund, and other persons who earn 



