352 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Section 8. Every corporation of the kind described in section one re- 

 ceiving aid under the provisions of this act shall annually, in the month of 

 December, prepare or cause to be prepared a budget containing a detailed 

 estimate of all sums required to be expended by it for its corporate pur- 

 poses during the ensuing year, which budget shall forthwith be transmitted 

 to the finance board. The finance board shall estimate what sum may be 

 proper for the corporation to expend during said year for its corporate pur- 

 poses, and shall submit the estimate, on or before the second Wednesday 

 of the following January, to the county commissioners. 



Section 9. Any town may, at a legally called town meeting, vote to 

 acquire by purchase or otherwise real estate for the purpose of carrying on, 

 under the direction of the agricultural advisers of the county, agricultural 

 demonstration work within the town, and may appropriate money for 

 the purposes of acquiring such real estate, or for the support of agricultural 

 demonstration work on land owned by the town, or owned by any resident 

 of the town. 



Section 10. This act shall apply only to the counties of the common- 

 wealth in which a corporation of the class described in section one and ap- 

 proved by the Massachusetts Agricultural College and by the county com- 

 missioners has and maintains a principal place of business : provided, that 

 counties which maintain county vocational agricultural schools, shall not 

 maintain county-aided corporations for the purposes designated in this act. 



Section 11. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 June 25, 1914. 



ACCEPTANCE OF FEDERAL AID FOR EXTENSION WORK. 



Chapter 721. 



An Act to accept the grants of money authorized by congress for 



THE MORE complete ENDOWMENT AND SUPPORT OF COLLEGES FOR 

 THE BENEFIT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1 . The commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby assents to the 

 purpose of the advance of money authorized by the act of congress, en- 

 titled "An Act to provide for co-operative agricultural extension work be- 

 tween the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of 

 an act of congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 

 and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States department of 

 agriculture", said act being number ninety-five of the sixty-third congress, 

 and approved on the eighth day of May in the year nineteen hundred and 

 fourteen. 



Section 2. The commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby accepts the 

 annual grant of moneys made by the United States as set forth and defined 

 in said act of congress, and the treasurer and receiver general is hereby 

 designated to receive the same annually, to be applied by him under and for 



