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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Quests at 

 hotels, etc., 

 to be notified 

 when sub- 

 stance served 

 is not butter. 



Assistant to 

 the secretary 

 of the board 

 of agriculture 

 to be ap- 

 pointed. 



Term of office. 



Three mem- 

 bers of the 

 board of agri- 

 culture to 

 constitute a 

 dairy bureau. 



Executive 

 officer. 



ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollai-s or 

 imprisonment for not less than thirty days for each 

 offence. 



Sect. 5. Whoever furnishes, or causes to be fur- 

 nished, in any hotel, restaurant or at any lunch counter, 

 oleomargarine or butterine to any guest or patron of such 

 hotel, restaurant or lunch counter, in the place or stead of 

 butter shall notify said guest or patron that the substance 

 so furnished is not butter, and any party so furnishing 

 without such notice shall be punished by a fine of not less 

 than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. 



Sect. 6. The governor, by and with the consent of 

 the council, shall appoint an assistant to the secretary of 

 the board of agriculture, at an annual salary of twelve 

 hundred dollars, and expenses necessarily incurred in the 

 discharge of his duties, to assist in the work prescribed 

 in the eleventh section of this act. Said appointee shall 

 hold office for two years or till his successor is appointed, 

 unless sooner removed from office by the governor, and 

 his successor shall be appointed as above provided for. 



Sect. 7. In order to secure the better enforcement 

 of the provisions of this act and to promote the 

 improvement of the products of the dairy, the governor, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the council, shall 

 appoint three members of the board of agriculture, to con- 

 stitute a dairy bureau of said board, one to serve for 

 three years, one for two years and one for one year from 

 the first day of July in the year eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-one, or for such shorter terms respectively as they 

 may continue to be members of said board of agriculture ; 

 and, prior to the first day of July in each succeeding 

 year, the governor shall appoint from said board one 

 member of said bureau to serve for three years or for 

 such shorter term, as aforesaid. No person shall continue 

 to be a member of said bureau after he has ceased to be 

 a member of said board, but, on his ceasing to be a mem- 

 ber of said boai'd, his place on said bureau shall be filled 

 by the appointment of another member of said board, as 

 aforesaid. The secretary of said board shall be the 

 executive officer of said bureau subject to its control and 

 direction, and said secretary shall, upon assuming said 

 duties, receive, in addition to his present salary, five hun- 

 dred dollars per annum. The governor may at any time 

 terminate the service of auv member of said board as a 



