STATUTES RELATING TO THE STATE BOARD 

 OF ACIRICULTURE. 



PUBLIC STATUTES.— CHAPTER 20. 



INDEX. 



1. Board, how constituted. 



2. Tenure of office of members Va- 

 cancies, how filled. 



3. Where and how often to meet; to 

 receive no compensation. 



4. Secretary and clerk and their sal- 

 aries. 



5. Board to be overseers of agricul- 

 tural college. 



Board to investigate subjects relat- 

 ing to agriculture, take donations, 

 etc. 



to tix days for annual meetings of 

 agricultural societies, etc. 



to report to general court. 

 Secretary to publish abstracts, etc. 



may appoint agents. 



Section 1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, and fo^nYumted' 

 secretary of the commonwealth, the president of the 

 agricultural college, one person appointed from and by 

 each agricultural society which receives an annual 

 bounty from the commonwealth, and three other per- 

 sons 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 

 said board shall retire from office on the first Wednes- 

 day of February in each year, according to their ap- 

 pointments. The vacancies thus occurring shall be 

 filled by the governor and council, or by the agricul- 

 tural societies, as the offices were before filled, and the 

 persons thus appointed shall hold their oflflces for three 

 years from the expiration of the former terms. Otlier 

 vacancies ma}' be filled in the same manner for the 

 remainder of the vacant terms. 



Tenure of 

 office of ruem- 

 bere. 



Vacancies, 

 how tilled. 



