improvements as they may deem proper, and grade the said premiums so that it will be competent for small, as well as large farmers and artizans, to compete for the same, make out a statement containing a synopsis of the awards, and an abstract of the treasurer's account, and report on the conditions of agriculture, in their county, to the state board. Said statement to be forwarded by mail or otherwise to the secretary of the state board on or before the fifteenth day of November, in each year.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Annual meeting. Agriculture, together with so many of the presidents or authorized delegates of the county societies as may be in attendance, to meet at the capitol of the state on the second Wednesday of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and annually thereafter, and proceed to elect by ballot a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and five members of the State Board of Agriculture, who, when regularly convened, shall constitute the State Board of Agriculture. The president, vice-president and treasurer shall be elected to serve for one year, and the secretary and members shall serve for two years from the time of their election.

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SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture to make an annual report of its proceedings for the preceding year to the legislature, embracing a report of the State Horticultural Society, and an abstract of the proceedings of the county societies, as well as a general view of the condition of agriculture throughout the state, accompanied by such essays, statements and recommendations as they shall deem interesting and useful, which reports shall be printed by the state. The transactions of the State Agricultural Society, and the State Horticultural Society, shall be published in one volume, from the respective organizations of said societies, until the close of the last year of the said societies: Prorided, That said printing shall in all respects conform to "An act providing for the election of a public printer, and prescribing the duties thereof," approved February

25, 1869: Provided, further, That the said reports shall be bound in cloth, and shall not cost to exceed one dollar per copy.

distributed.

SEC. 5. The number of copies of the report as provided in the foregoing section shall be limited to three Report-how thousand five hundred. The secretary of state shall distribute the said reports as follows: Two hundred and seventy copies to the state officers, twelve hundred and seventy to the legislature, five hundred to the State Horticultural Society, five copies to the State Library, five copies to the State Agricultural College, and fourteen hundred and fifty copies to the State Board of Agriculture, for distribution among the agricultural, horticultural societies, mechanical associations and farmers' clubs of the state, and for distrtbution and exchange with other state societies, and as may seem best for the interest of the state.

SEC. 6. The office of the State Board of Agriculture shall be in the capitol building, in the rooms now occupied by the State Agricultural Society, unless a change thall be deemed necessary by the secretary of state.

SEC. 7. The sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($35,- Appropriation. 000) is hereby appropriated for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two for the benefit of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to be paid by the treasurer of the state upon the order of the president of said board, audited by the auditor of state, in such sums and at such times as may be necessary for the payment of the premiums awarded at the fairs or industrial exhibitions to be held under the auspices and control of the said State Board of Agriculture.

trict societies.

SEC. 8. Whenever any county or district society, com- County and disposed of one or more counties, which shall have complied fully with the provisions of the second section of this act so as to be entitled to a representation in the State Board of Agriculture, and shall then have raised and paid into the hands of their treasurer a sum not less than fifty dollars, ($50,) either by voluntary contribution or fees imposed

upon their members, and a certificate showing the fact, attested by the president and treasurer of said society, under oath, shall be presented to the chairman of the board of county commissioners of the county where said fair has been held, then it shall be the duty of the chairman of said board of county commissioners to issue an order on the treasurer of said county in favor of the treasurer of said society for a sum equal in amount to the sum so paid into the treasury of said society by the members thereof said moneys to be used wholly for the payment of premiums awarded at the fair held by the society within said county: Provided, The amount so drawn from the county treasury shall not exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00) in any one year.

SEC. 9. The premium list and rules and regulations, together with the time set and location determined upon for holding the annual fair shall be published by the State Board of Agriculture, on or before the first day of April of each year.

SEC. 10. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth.

Approved February 19, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 7, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

AN ACT supplemental to chapter two (2) of the General Statutes of 1868, entited act for the encouragement of agriculture."

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : SECTION 1. All county agricultural and horticultural societies, duly incorporated under the laws of this State, shall have power during the time of holding their fairs, to appoint such police force, and make such laws and regulations as shall be deemed necessary for the well ordering and government of the society.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and in be in force from and after publication in the statute book.

Approved February 29, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,

Secretary of State.

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verified.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

LEGISLATIVE AND PRINTING APPROPRIATIONS.

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative department.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas :

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose herein named, for the fiscal year ending November 30, A. D. 1872: For payment of per diem and mileage of members of the legislature, and payment of officers and messengers of the legislature, twenty thousand dollars, ($20,000); for legislative postage, six hundred dollars, ($600) for members of the legislature and president of the Senate; to public printer for printing public documents of 1871-2, five thousand dollars, ($5,000); also to public printer for legislative printing, session 1872, two thousand dollars, ($2,000.)

SEC. 2. That the foregoing amounts, or so much Accounts to be thereof as may be necessary, shall be paid in proportion to the service rendered, at the rate allowed by law, and no account shall be allowed or audited except salaries fixed by law, unless the same be verified by affidavit of claimant upon an itemized statement of his account.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth, and said publication shall be sufficient in law, any statute to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Approved January 30, 1872.