STATUTES RELATING TO THE STATE BOARD OF 

 AGRICULTURE. 



PUBLIC STATUTES. —CHAPTER 20. 



Section 



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. 



INDEX. 



Section 



6. Board to investigate subjects relat- 

 ing to agriculture, fake donations, 

 etc. 



7. to fix days for annual meetings of 

 agricultural societies, etc. 



8. to report to general court. 



9. Secretary to publish abstracts, etc. 

 10. may appoint agents. 



Section 1. The governor, lieutenaut-o;overnor and Board, how 



^ ' ^ constituted. 



secretary of the commonwealth, the president of the aori- ^- S- 16, § i, 



•^ ' ' » 1866, 263, § 3. 



cultural college, the secretary of the board of agriculture, i894, i44. 

 one person appointed from and by the Massachusetts 

 society for promoting agriculture, one person appointed 

 from and by each agricultural society which receives an 

 annual bounty from the commonwealth, and three other 

 persons appointed by the governor with the advice and 

 consent of the council, shall constitute the state board of 

 agriculture. 



(Section 4 of chapter 20G of the Acts of 1874 provides 

 that " the chemist of the State Board of Agriculture shall 

 be ex officio a member of said board and state inspector of 

 fertilizers.") 



Sect. 2. One-third of the appointed members of said Tenure of 



office of mem- 

 board shall retire from office on the first Wednesday of I'ers. 



"^ Vacancies, 



February in each year, according to their appointments, how filled. 



Gr. fcj. 16, § 2« 



The vacancies thus occurring shall be filled by the 

 governor and council, or' by the agricultural societies, 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. 



Sect. 3. The board shall meet at the state house or at where and 

 the agricultural college at least once in each year, and as meet. 

 much oftener as may be deemed expedient. No member To receive no 



n .J , , , ,, . i.' i- ii compensation. 



of said board shall receive compensation from the com- as. le, §3. 

 mouwealth except for personal expenses when engaged in >- •§ • 

 the duties of the board. 



