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of pesticides. This act provides for tha appointment of five 

 members by the Governor. There are now eleven memters of the 

 Board. Prior to this, the Board consisted of the Comaissioner 

 of the Department of Public Health, who was the Chairman, the 

 Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, the Com- 

 missioner of the Department of Agricultxire , the Commissioner of 

 the Department of Public Works and the Director of the Division 

 of Fisheries and Game, as well as the Chairman of the State Recla- 

 mation Board. It also made other changes affecting the labeling, 

 registration, and distribution of pesticides. 



Chapter 882 is an act extending to certain persons engaged 

 in agriculture certain coverage under the State Labor Law. They 

 have added a new Section 5A which provides that a person engaged 

 in agriculture, and having a permanent work force of more than 

 four agricultural workers who are not members of his family, shall 

 come under the provisions of the State Labor Relations Law. 



Chapter 891 is an act further regulating the slaughtering 

 of certain animals and the processing of said animals. This law 

 put the Massachusetts laws in line with Federal standards and 

 provided that the Department of Public Health through its Division 

 of Food and Drugs should enforce it. 



The foregoing are the acts passed by the Legislature and 

 signed by the Goverr.:?r in The la-cer part of the calendar year 

 of _-570. 



The following acts were passed in the first si:: ~onths of the 

 1971 calendar year: " - 



