158 BOARD OF AGRICIXTURE. [P. D. 4. 



Section 5. For the purposes of this act the term "state first premi- 

 ums" shall mean all first premiums described in the premium lists of said 

 associations as being offered by the state board of agriculture through the 

 association. 



Section 6. Chapter four hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of the 

 3'ear nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter five hundred and 

 ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen and by chapter 

 two hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 

 and fourteen, is hereby repealed. 



Section 7. This act shall take effect on the first day of Septeml^er in 

 the year nineteen hundred and seventeen. [Approved March 17, 1917. 



Note. — The two preceding acts will be automatically repealed on October 1, 

 1918, when the Anti-Aid Amendment goes into effect. 



DRAINAGE SURVEYS. 



General Acts, Chapter 212. 



An Act to authorize the state board of agriculture and the state 

 department of health to make drainage surveys. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. The state board of agriculture and the state department 

 of health, acting jointlj^ are hereby authorized to investigate the question 

 of utilizing the wet lands in the commonwealth, including meadows, 

 swamps, marshes, beaches and other low lands, and to ascertain what 

 lands, if any, in the commonwealth may advantageously be drained for 

 agricultural and industrial uses, the protection of the public health, the 

 utilization of deposits therein, or for other purposes. Said boards may 

 publish and disseminate facts of general interest ascertained in the conduct 

 of the investigation hereby authorized, and may make and publish surveys 

 of tracts of land in need of drainage, showing their situation, area and out- 

 lets, the best methods and the cost of draining them, the uses to which 

 they are best adapted, and such other details as may be deemed ad\asable. 

 The said boards shall report annually to the legislature their doings here- 

 under in the preceding year. 



Section 2. In carrying out the provisions of this act the said boards 

 shall seek the co-operation and assistance of the United States depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and may employ such engineers, assistants, or other 

 agents as may be necessary, who shall have ingress, egi-ess and regress 

 to land which said boards may desire to survey or examine and may ex- 

 pend from the treasury of the commonwealth for the purposes of this act 

 a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars. 



Section 3. Chapter seven hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of the 

 year nineteen hundred and thirteen and chapter five hundred and ninety- 

 six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



