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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Jan. 



Where and 

 how often to 



To receive no 

 compensation. 



Secretary and 

 clerk and their 

 salaries. 



Salary estab- 

 lished. 



Clerical 

 services. 

 Lectures. 



Board to be 

 overseers of 

 agricultaral 

 college. 



to Investi- 

 gate sabjects 

 relating to 

 agricultarc, 

 take dona- 

 tions, etc. 



to fix days 

 for annuiil 

 meetings of 

 agriculinrml 

 Bociettes, eto. 



Sect. 3. The board shall meet at the state house 

 or at the agricultural college at least once in each year, 

 and as much oftener as may be deemed expedient. No 

 member of said board shall receive compensation from 

 the commonwealth except for personal expenses when 

 engaged in the duties of the board. 



Sect. 4. The board may appoint and prescribe 

 the duties of a secretary, who shall receive a salary of 

 two thousand dollars a year ; and who, at such times 

 as the board shall approve, may employ a clerk at a 

 salary of eleven hundred dollars a year, and may ex- 

 pend for other clerical services in his office, and for 

 lectures to be given before the board of agriculture at 

 its annual and other meetings, a sum not exceeding 

 four hundred dollars. 



[Section 4 has been amended by Acts of 1883, chap. 

 184, sect. 1 : The secretary of the board of agriculture 

 shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred 

 dollars, and at the same rate for any part of a year. 

 Also, by Acts of 1884, chap. 66, sect. 1 : The sec- 

 retary of the board of agriculture may expend for other 

 clerical services in his office, and for lectures to be 

 given before the board at its annual and other meetings, 

 a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum. 

 Also, by Acts of 1887, chap. 245, sect. 1 : The clerk of 

 the secretary of the state board of agriculture shall 

 receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars.] 



Sect. 5. The board shall be a board of overseers 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, with powers 

 and duties to be defined and fixed by the governor and 

 council, but such powers shall not control the action of 

 the trustees of said college, or negative their pciwers 

 and duties as defined by chapter two hundred and 

 twenty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-three. 



Sect. 6. The board shall investigate such subjects 

 relating to improvement in agriculture in this common- 

 wealth as they may think proper, and may take, hold 

 in trust, and exercise control over donations or be- 

 quests made to them for promoting agricultural educa- 

 tion or the general interests of husbandry. 



Sect. 7. They may fix the days on which the 

 different agricultural societies shall commence their 

 exhibitions, and may prescribe forms for and regulate 



