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ACT TO ENABLE COUNTY BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS IN COUNTIES 

 UNDER TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION AND COUNTY COMMISSION- 

 ERS IN COUNTIES NOT UNDER TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION, TO 

 APPROPRIATE COUNTY FUNDS FOR USE OF COUNTY FARMERS' 

 INSTITUTES. 



(Approved June 5, 1911.) 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 

 sented in the General Assembly: That it shall be lawful for county boards 

 of supervisors in counties under township organization, and for county 

 commissioners in counties not under township organization, to appropriate 

 funds from the county treasury for use of county farmers' institutes in their 

 efforts to promote the adoption of the latest approved methods of crop 

 production, the improvement of livestock, the conservation of soil fertility, 

 and the improvement of agricultural conditions generally: Provided, that 

 in no case shall it be lawful for a county board to appropriate more than 

 three hundred dollars ($300) in any one year for the above purposes. 



AN ACT CREATING THE ILLINOIS FARMERS INSTITUTE. 



Approved June 24, 1895. Amended and approved May 11, 1901. Amended 

 and approved May 15, 1903. Amended and approved June 10, 1909. Amended 

 and approved June 28, 1919. 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 

 sented in the General Assembly: That to assist and encourage useful edu- 

 cation among the farmers, and for developing the agricultural resources of 

 the State, that an organization under the name and style of "Illinois 

 Farmers' Institute" is hereby created, and declared a public corporation of 

 the State. 



SEC. 2. It shall consist of three delegates from each county of the State, 

 elected annually at the farmers' institutes for said county by the members 

 thereof. 



SEC. 3. The affairs of the Illinois Farmers' Institute shall be managed 

 by a Board of Directors, consisting of: 



1. State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



2. Dean of Agriculture, University of Illinois. 



3. Director of State Department of Agriculture. 



4. President of the State Horticultural Society. 



5. President of the State Dairymen's Association, and one member 

 from each congressional district of the State, to be selected by the delegates 

 from the district present at the annual meeting of this organization: Pro- 

 vided, that the members first selected from the congressional districts of 

 even numbers shall serve for one year, and the members first selected from 

 the congressional districts of odd numbers shall serve for two years, and 

 that the members selected thereafter to fill the expired term of office shall 

 serve for the period of two years. 



SEC. 4. The Board of Directors of the Illinois Farmers' Institute shall 

 have sole care and disposal of all sums that may be appropriated by the 

 State to sustain the organization, and shall expend the same in such manner 

 as in their judgment will best promote the interests in useful education 

 among the farmers and develop the agricultural resources of the State. The 

 Illinois Farmers' Institute shall make annual report to the Governor of its 

 transactions, which rep'ort shall include papers pertaining to its work and 

 addresses made at the annual meeting of the organization, and a classified 

 statement of all money received and of all expenditures made, and fifty 

 thousand (50,000) copies of such report shall be printed and bound in cloth 

 on or before September 1, of each fiscal year, three-fourths for the use of the 

 Illinois Farmers' Institute, and the remainder to the Secretary of State for 

 distribution. It shall make no appropriation without funds in hand to 

 meet the same, and the State of Illinois shall in no event be held liable or 

 responsible for debt, obligation or contract made by the Illinois Farmers' 

 Institute or its Board of Directors. 



