102 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



BRISTOL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 



General Acts, Chapter 247. 



An Act relath'e to the independent agricultural school of 



bristol county. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs: 



Section 1 . The name of the independent agricultural school of Bristol 

 county shall be Bristol County Agricultural School. 



Section 2. The said school shall provide instruction in agriculture 

 and, at such time as may be approved by the board of education, may 

 provide instruction in household arts or home-making. Short-unit courses 

 of instruction may be given both at the school and elsewhere in the county. 

 Members of the school staff shall investigate farm and market conditions 

 for the purpose of advising indi\'iduals and organizations with reference 

 to better business methods among farmers, and more satisfactory methods 

 of marketing farm products, shall give instruction in the formation of 

 co-operative enterprises, and shall perform any other work calculated to 

 promote the agricultural or rural development of the count}'. It shall 

 be the duty of members of the staff to keep in touch with, and to avail 

 themselves of, all agencies in the commonwealth or elsewhere that will 

 enable them to utilize the latest and best knowledge and practice in the 

 furtherance of their work. 



Section 3. The said school may receive and utilize gifts considered 

 by said trustees and the board of education to be consistent with its pur- 

 poses, but principally it shall be supported as follows : — The treasurer 

 of the county shall pay all bills which are approved by the trustees, not 

 exceeding in the aggregate twenty thousand dollars, in addition to the 

 miscellaneous income described in section four of this act, for the establish- 

 ment, equipment and maintenance of said school during the fiscal year 

 nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the amount so paid shall be raised 

 by taxation in the same manner in which the other expenses of the county 

 are provided for. Said trustees shall annually, after the first year, in con- 

 sultation with and with the approval of the board of education and the 

 county commissioners of the county prepare on or before the fifteenth 

 day of December, an estimate of the amount required to establish, equip, 

 and maintain the said school for the ensuing year; and the said amount 

 shall be included by the county commissioners of the county in the esti- 

 mate required by section twenty-seven of chapter twenty-one of the Re- 

 vised Laws, as amended, and if the amount so estimated, or any part 

 thereof, shall be authorized by the general court as part of the county tax, 

 the county of Bristol shall raise by taxation the sum so authorized, and 

 the treasurer of the county shall pay all bills, if approved by the trustees, 

 not exceeding the amount authorized, in the same manner as the bills of 

 other departments of the county are paid. 



Section 4. Li order to reduce the net cost to the county and state of 



