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The Council, which has its seat in Christiania, shall in general as- 

 semble once a year in connection with the meeting of representatives 

 for The Royal Society for Norway's Weal. 



But it may also assemble at other times, when the Department of 

 Agriculture or the working committee find it necessary or when a mee- 

 ting is demanded by at least one-third of the members of the Council. 



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 The ordinary meeting of the Council shall deal with : 



a. The official measures for the advancement of agriculture. 



b. Matters which by the Department of Agriculture are submitted to 

 the Council for discussion, 



c. Matters which the Council itself or any of its members propose for 

 discussion. 



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The working committee shall assemble as often as the Department 

 of Agriculture, the chairman or 2 of its other members shall consider 

 necessary, and shall : 



a. prepare all matters which are to be dealt with by the assembled 

 Council, 



b. deal with matters that require to be decided so promptly that they 

 cannot be submitted to the assembled Council, 



c. intervene when it is considered necessary in order to guard the in- 

 terests of agriculture. 



6. 



The ordinary members of the Council receive allowance for travel- 

 ling and maintenance expenses on the ist class scale. 



The members of the working committee receive, in addition to the 

 same allowance for travelling and maintenance, a fee of Kr. 12 for each 

 day they meet. 



As already stated, this organisation is quite new, but it is mainly 

 based upon old organisations of a similar nature. The Agricultural Council 

 is, however, an entirely new institution established in 1919. 



The arrangement aims at a decentralisation of the public admini- 

 stration in agriculture. In a land so extensive and varied as Norway it 

 would be impossible for the central administration to familiarize itself 

 with and to keep itself sufficiently well informed of the conditions and 

 developments throughout the different parts of the country. But at the 

 same time the arrangement aims at securing a firm connection and an 

 active collaboration between the central administration and the local in- 

 stitutions, so that the work for the promotion of agriculture and cattle- 



