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COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE. 



General Acts, Chapter 273. 



An Act to provide for the appointment in certain counties of 

 trustees for county aid to agriculture. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. In each county, except Suffolk and except counties main- 

 taining vocational agricultural schools, the county commissioners shall, 

 on or before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and eighteen, 

 appoint an unpaid board of nine trustees to be known as trustees for 

 county aid to agriculture, three of whom shall serve for one year, three 

 for two years, and three for three years from the first day of April in the 

 current year, and thereafter, as the term of each trustee expires, or as a 

 vacancy occurs, the county commissioners shall appoint a successor for 

 a term of three years from the first day of April in the year of the appoint- 

 ment, or for the imexpired term. All of said trustees shall be residents 

 of the county in which they are appointed, and four, so far as possible 

 shall be taken from the directors, chosen as hereinafter provided, of such 

 cities or towns as have appropriated funds toward carrying out the pro- 

 visions of this act. Choice of the aforesaid directors shall be made in 

 such towns at the annual town meeting at which the appropriation is 

 made, or at the next succeeding annual meeting whenever the appropria- 

 tion is made at a special meeting, and in such cities, by the mayor and 

 aldermen, or body exercising similar powers, not later than fifteen days 

 following the vote authorizing the appropriation. The said directors shall 

 serve for such terms as the appointing authority in cities and the voters 

 in towns shall determine. 



Section 2. The trustees may on behalf of the county, receive and 

 apply to the purposes of this act money appropriated therefor by any 

 county, citj' or town, or by the federal government, and may control the 

 expenditure thereof either solely or in conjunction with representatives 

 or agents of the commonwealth or of the United States, or of any depart- 

 ment, commission, board or institution created under the statutes of the 

 commonwealth or under an act of congress. The trustees may enter 

 into agreements, arrangements or undertakings with any such depart- 

 ments, commissions, boards and institutions, relative to extension work 

 with adults and with boys and girls in agriculture, home-making and 

 country life. 



Section 3. The said trustees shall maintain one or more agents or 

 instructors in agriculture, home-making and country life, who shall meet 

 the residents of the county individually and in groups for the purpose of 

 teaching and demonstrating better practice in agriculture and home- 

 making, the benefits to be derived from cooperative efforts, better methods 

 of marketing farm products and the organization of communities to build 

 up country life. 



