

LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 29' 



and the mode of appointing their successors to remain unaltered by 

 this act. 



SEC. 3692. [Annual meeting of board.] There shall be held in 

 the city of Columbus, on the first Thursday after the second Monday in 

 January, an annual meeting of the Ohio state board of agriculture, to- 

 gether with the president of each county agricultural society, OIL duly 

 authorized delegate therefrom, who shall, for the time being, be ex-ofncio- 

 members of the state board of agriculture, for the purpose of deliberation 

 and consultation as to the wants, prospects and condition of agriculture 

 throughout the state ; and at such meeting, the several reports from the 

 count r societies shall be delivered to the president of the state board of 

 agriculture. 



[Election of members; term.] And, at the annual meeting to 

 be held in 1898, there shall be elected five members of the state board of" 

 agriculture, two members for a term of two years, two members for a 

 term of three years, and one member for a term of four years ; and, at: 

 the annual meeting to be held in 1899, there shall be elected" five members, 

 one member for a term of three years, two members for a term of four 

 years, and two members for a term of five years ; and annually thereafter 

 there shall be elected two members whose term shall be five years, and. 

 until their successors are elected. 



SEC. 3693. [Annual report of board to general assembly.] The 

 board ma}- elect such officers as may by it be deemed necessary. It shall 

 hold an annual exhibition of the agricultural and general productive in- 

 dustries of the state ; shall make an annual report to the general assembly, 

 embracing its proceedings for the past year, and an abstract of the pro- 

 ceedings of the several county agricultural societies, as well as a general 

 view of the condition of agriculture throughout the state, accompanied by 

 such recommendations as it may deem interesting and useful. 



SEC. 3694. [State board of agriculture; real estate acquired by; 

 auditing of expenses: annual report: legal adviser. The board may 

 hold in fee simple such real estate as it may have heretofore purchased,, 

 or may hereafter purchase, as sites whereon to hold its annual fairs, and 

 all such lands held by the board for said purpose shall be exempt from, 

 taxation, but when any such real estate as may have heretofore been pur- 

 chased or may hereafter be purchased, shall cease to be used by the board 

 as sites whereon to hold such annual fairs, then such real estate with the 

 improvements thereon, belonging to the board, shall revert to the state 

 of Ohio ; and no portion v of any such real estate shall be disposed of 

 except by act of the legislature. The board shall have the power to audit 

 and pay its ordinary expenses, including the necessary personal expenses, 

 of the members in their attendance on the meetings of the board, out of 

 any funds in its possession or out of the state agricultural fund, and shall, 

 in its annual report, make a complete showing of its financial transac- 

 tions ; and the attorney-general shall act as the legal adviser of the board., 

 the same as for other state departments. 



SEC. 3695. | How state agricultural fund at disposal of board.] 

 The state agricultural fund shall be at the disposal of the board for the 

 improvement of the agricultural interests of the state ; and when escheated 

 property is legally reclaimed by any heir, it shall be held subject to the 

 payment, to the purchaser of the state, of so much of the original purchase- 

 money as it received, and legal interest to the time of such reclamation.. 



