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APPENDIX. 



The committee appointed at the organization of tlie State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, to formulate and introduce a bill asking our State Legislature 

 to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars (i?5,ooo) to carry out a cred- 

 itable exhibit of the Apiarian industries of the State, at the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition, was composed of the following members as shown on page 17: 



Thomas G. Newman, C. P. Dadant, Hon. J. M. Hambaugh, Col. 

 Charles F. Mills, S. N. Black, Hon. J. S. Lyman, and A. U. Draper. 



In accordance with their duties the following bill was introduced into 

 the Lower House, March 25, 1891, read the first time, and referred to the 

 committee on appropriations : 



A BILL. 



1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in 

 the General Assembly, that there be, and is, hereby appropriated to the 

 Illinois Bee- Keepers' Association, out ot any money in the treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated, the following sums, to-wit : For the payment of 

 the expenses of making an exhibit of bees, honey. Apiary supplies, and ap- 

 pliances at the World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago in 1893, 

 the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much of said sum as may be required 

 to make a creditable display. 



2. The Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association may, in its discretion, employ 

 a competent person as an executive officer for service in preparatory work 

 and care of the State Apiarian exhibit, whose powers, duties and title shall 

 be prescriped by said Bee-Keepers' Association, and whose compensation 

 shall be fixed by said Association, subject to the approval of the Governor. 

 Said executive officer shall be removed at the pleasure of the Association. 

 Any member of said Bee- Keepers' Association other than said executive 

 officer rendering service in connection with said State exhibit by instruction 

 of said Association, may receive as compensation therefor only necessary 

 expenses and cost of transportation while actually employed in such ser- 

 vices . 



3. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or as much thereof as 

 may be necessary for the purpose, is hereby appropriated to defray the cost 

 and expenses of the work contemplated by this act, to be paid by the State 



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