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APPENDIX. 



LAWS RELATING TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[General Statutes, Chapter 16.] 



Section 1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, and secretary 

 of the Commonwealth, one person appointed from and by each agri- 

 cultural society which receives an annual bounty from the state, 

 and three other persons appointed by the governor with the advice 

 and consent of the council, shall constitute the State Board of 

 Agriculture. 



Sect. 2. One-third of the appointed members of the board shall 

 retire from office on the first Wednesday in February in each year, 

 according to their appointments. The vacancies thus occurring 

 shall be filled by the governor and council or the agricultural socie- 

 ties as the offices were before filled, and the persons thus appointed 

 shall hold their offices for three years from the expiration of the 

 former terms. Other vacancies may be filled in the same manner 

 for the remainder of the vacant terms. The present members of 

 the board shall continue to hold their offices during the terms for 

 which they were appointed. 



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

 in each year, and as much oftener as may be deemed expedient. 

 No member thereof shall receive compensation from the state, 

 except for personal expenses when engaged in the duties of the 

 board. 



Sect. 4. They may appoint and prescribe the duties of a secre- 

 tary of the board, who shall receive a salary of two thousand dol- 

 lars a 3 - ear ; and who at such times as the board approve may 

 employ a clerk at a salary not exceeding six hundred dollars a year. 



Sect. 5. They shall investigate such subjects relating to improve- 

 ments in agriculture in this state as they think proper, and may 

 take, hold in trust and exercise control over donations or bequests 

 made to them for promoting agricultural education or the general 

 interests of husbandry. 

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