226 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CHANGES 



IN LAWS. 



[Presented and adopted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 12, 1904.] 



Your committee appointed at the public winter meeting 

 of the Board at North Adams, " to consider the laws relat- 

 ing to agriculture and agricultural societies, to report at 

 some future meeting of the Board, and with power to recom- 

 mend to the Legislature such changes in the present statutes 

 as shall seem in their judgment expedient," has considered 

 the matter entrusted to it, and begs leave to submit the fol- 

 lowing report and recommendations : — 



That the powers and duties of the Cattle Bureau should be 

 vested in the State Board of Agriculture, to be exercised 

 through a committee of three, of whom the secretary shall 

 be one, which shall have all the powers and duties prescribed 

 by chapter 116, Acts of 1902, for the Governor and Council ; 

 and the State Board of Agriculture shall annually elect a 

 director of the cattle division of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, who shall carry out the directions of the Board through 

 its committee, as above outlined, with such clerical and other 

 assistance as shall be authorized by the Board through its 

 committee. 



That the powers and duties of the Dairy Bureau, as estab- 

 lished by chapter 412, Acts of 1891, should be vested in the 

 State Board of Agriculture, to be exercised through a com- 

 mittee of three, of whom the secretary shall be one, which 

 shall have all the powers and duties now prescribed for the 

 Dairy Bureau ; and the State Board of Agriculture shall 

 annually elect a director of the dairy division of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, who shall carry out the directions of 

 the Board of Agriculture through its committee, with such 



