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CHAPTER II. 



Specialists. 

 Article 1 . The Board shall also elect annually, by Duties of 

 ballot, six specialists, to wit: a chemist, a veterinarian, how'pafd!' 

 an entomologist, an ornithologist, an engineer, a botanist 

 and a pomologist. These specialists shall consider such 

 matters as may be referred to them from time to time and 

 report to the Board or to some committee thereof, and 

 shall be paid for their services out of any funds available 

 for such work, either per diem or at such rate as may be 

 agreed upon with the secretary of the Board. They shall 

 also be expected to attend, without pay, the public winter 

 meeting of the Board, and also the annual meeting, and 

 take part therein, but they shall not be entitled to a vote 

 except in the case of the chemist, who by law is made a 

 member of the Board. 



CHAPTER III. 



Duties of Officers and Committees. 

 Article 1. The officers of this Board are charged Duties of 



, , , , • 1 1 , . 1 T ■ -1 officers. 



With the duties and entitled to the rights and privileges 

 which belong by general consent and parliamentary cus- 

 tom to their respective offices. 



Art. 2. The president or one of the vice-presidents 

 shall preside at all meetings of the Board. 



The Secretary. 



Art. 3. The secretary of the Board shall keep the Duties of 

 records of all meetings of the Board, and as full an 

 abstract of the returns of the agricultural societies as may 

 be deemed useful. He shall have the custody and care of 

 all books, documents, and papers relating to matters 

 which may come within the jurisdiction of the Board of 

 Agriculture, and shall keep the same properly filed and 

 indexed. He shall keep a full and accurate account of all 

 moneys which may be placed at the disposal of the 

 Board of Agriculture, also of bounties and other moneys 

 which may be expended under its direction or in its behalf. 

 He " shall furnish to the secretary of each agricultural 

 society from time to time such printed forms and blanks 

 as may be deemed necessary to secure uniform and re- 

 liable statistics," and any other information that may be 

 ^called for by the Board. He shall annually, on or before 



secretary. 



