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ure, to be paid out, as hereinafter directed,

ture, to be paid out, as hereinafter directed,
On the warrants of said Treasurer, counter
signed by the President of the Board.
8. of the said sum there shall be annual
y employed, by the Commissioner of Agri-
culture, the sum of SO, 900 for the purposes
mentioned in the Act of Assembly approved
March 80, 1877, chapter s49, entitled .'An
act to establish a Department of Agricul-
ture, Mining and Manufacturing for the
State" and Acts amendatory thereof, and
for such other purposes as are specified in
this Act, and not otherwise specially pro-
vided for.
6. Out of the said sum there shall be an
nually paid to the agricultural societies and
associations, belonging to the Department
of Agriculture, the sum of $25,000 to be
distributed among these societies and asso-
Citations ratably in proportion to the amount
of premiums offered and actually paid by
each society or association the preceding
year; and in ascertainlng the amount of
premiums, special premiums offered by
private individuals, through the society or
association, shall not be estimated; provid-
ed however, that in estimating the premi-
ums which regulate the distribution, mill
tary premiums shall not be included and
that the sums thus paid shall be used ex-
clusively for the payment of premiums
awarded by said societies or associations;
and provided further, that no association
or society shall receive from said fund a
sum exceeding one-third of the amount ac-
tually collected and expended for premiums
at its last preceding annual fair. A detail
ed statement of the amount thus collected
and expended for premiums shall be fur
nished the State Board by the treasurer of
each of said societies or associations, such
statement to be verified by the oath of the
treasurer of each society or association,
countersigned by its president, and deliver
ed to the Secretary of the State Board on
or before the first day of December of each
year. Each society shall also be required
to furnish list of all premiums award
ed at its last annual fair, either for
animals, implements, fruits, vegetables,
cereals or other exhibits, giving the peculiar
excellence of the exhibit as written by an
expert in each department, with the name
and address of each exhibitor. Any agri-
cultural society or association which shall
make any false or fraudulent return of the
amount of its capital as defined by the first
section of this act, or of the amount actual
ly collected and expended in premiums.
shsll be deprived of membership in the De-
partment of Agriculture, and shall be de
barred from all the rights and privileges
arising from such membership for such
time as the Board of Directors shall direct;
but no expulsion shall take place except at
regular meeting of the State Board oil
Agriculture, and after thirty days notice
to such offending member.
z. The State Board of Agriculture shall
meet annually in the city of Richmond for
the transaction of business, on the second
Tuesday in January in each year, but called
meetings of said Board may be had at any
time, upon the call of the Executive Com
mittec.
s. Thele shall be established by the State
Board of Agriculture three experiment sta
tions: said stations to be under the manage
ment of General Director, to be appointed
by said Board. One of these stations shall
be established at or near the College at
Blacksburg, one at or near the University
Of Virginia, and the third at or near Hamp-
ton Normal School. There shall be appoint
ed, by the Board Of Agriculture, manager
for each of these stations, who shall be
under the special direction of the General
Director. These managers shall keep ac-
curate and detailed accounts of the expert
ments made by them, and the cost of each
respectively. 1t shall be the duty of the
General Director, on or before the first day
of December in each year to furnish con-
solidated report of these experiments to the
Secretary of the State Board in proper form
for publication. The sum of $4,000 out
shall be applied annually by the Board for the
ofo nos tot 1,rnuil
ed, however, that prior to the establishment
of these stations the State Board of Agricul-
ture, through its Executive Committee, shall
enter into an agreement with the proper
authorities of each of the institutions named,- :
in which agreement it shall be expressly
stipulated that each institution will furnish
for the use of such experiment station a
sufficient amount of land to conduct said
experiments, and shall make, free of charge,
all such chemical analysis as may be requir-
ed by the General Director; and upon the
failure of one or all of these institutions to
perform this agreement, then the expert
ment station established at such institution
or institutions shall be closed, and such sta
ton may be re-established at some other
location at which these facilities will be
supplied.
8. The State Board of Agriculture shall,
so soon as practicable, organize throughout
the State of Virginia system OF Farmers
Institutes, for the purpose of considering
and discussing questions relating to practical
agriculture, horticulture, pomology, &c.,
&C., and they shall be authorized to employ
one or more persons competent to give in
structioDs in practical and scientific agricul-
ture, to deliver lectures Or read essays re-
lating to agriculture and kindred pursuits.
The sum of $4,000 is hereby appropriated
out of the aforesaid sum of $50. 600 for the
purpose of organizing and equipping these
institutes and paying the lecturers employ
ed.
10. 1t shall be the duty of the Com
missioner of Agriculture to cause to be
printed, with his annual report, such por-
tions of the annual reports hereinbefore re-
quired to be furnished by the different
societies belonging to the Department of
Agriculture, and such of the lectures de-
livered and essays read at the Farmers In
stitutes, as the Executive Committee of the
State Board shall deem of sufficient value
to be preserved in permanent form.
The following resolution was adopted
ResOlUed, That the Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society cause 200 copies OF
this bill to be printed and furnish copies Of
the same to thepapers throughout the State,
with the request that they publish the
same; and also that he send two copies tc
each society or association in the State, with
the request that they express their approva
or disapproval of the same, and the grounds
of their objection, if any; and to reques
each society or association to send one del
egate to a meeting to be held in the city o
Richmond, on the Goth day of October
1886, for the purpose of perfecting said bill
each society or association represented t.
have one vote in said general meeting.
GEO. W. MAYO,
Secretary.