The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-20

A.
An Act TO amend an actenEitled "An act
to organize and establish state board
OF agriculture approved April first,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty
seven.
L Be it enacted by Size Senate and CEN
sey, Thai the third section of the act 60
which this is amendatory .sAail be and is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
3. And be it eIlacted, That the officers,
board OF directors and committees APP
pointed by the state board Tor by tile
board of directors or the executive
COMMITTEES thereof. shall receive COM
renSatiOn from the state for their per-
sonal expenses when engaged IN the duties
of the said board; the secretary of the
state board shall receive ain annual salary
OF lively hundred dollars, and may, with
the approval of the executive committee,
enploya clerk or clerks at an expense of
t over two hundred dollars year: the
Ssurer shall receive au annual salar
OF one hundred dollars, he shall give
bonds for the faithful performance OF the
duties OF his office in such sum as the
executive committee may require.
z. And be it enacted, THAT the eighth
section of the act to which this is anenda-
tory SHALL be and Is hereby amended SO as
to read as follows.
sand be it enacted, That the members
of the board of directors shall hold office
the following terms: Glass A, one year;
class y, one year; class G, two years; one
representative of each association retiring
each year.
8. And be it enacted, That the tenth
section of the act to which this is
afnendatory shall be and is hereby
amended SO as to read as folIows:-
10. And be il enacted, That In order to
collect and disseminate reliable and use
fnl information, and to encourage
higher standard In the agri-
culture and horticulturs OF the state,
the executive committee are hereby
authorized to cause to be made expert
mental and pIactical tests of specific
remedies or cures of diseases Of domestic
animals and poultry, and of plants, yege-
tables and fruits, and insects injurious
thereto, and 10 employ suitable persons
to lecture before the state board OF agri-
culture at its annual or other meetings,
and in the counties of the state as far as
the sum herein appropriated will allow,
to examine the reports of the state hortI-
cultural society, and all other reports,
essays, papers and documents in
tended Tor publication IN the annual
report, and to accept or reject the
same, or any portion thereof; to appor
ton to the state horticultural society not
less than three hundred dollars annually,
aud to the several county boards such
sum or sums of money for the inforina-
ton secured and the labor performed as
they deem equitable, such amount not to
exceed one hundred dollars in any one
year TO any county board. one-half Of this
amount, when the sum appropriated does
hot exceed sixty. dollars, to go to the
party or parties making up the report,
and the BALANCE TO the treasury Of the
county board TO pay its running expenses,
submit the amounts thus determined
upon to the state comptroller, who shall
thereupon draw his warrant upon the
state treasurer, who shall pay the same
out Of any moneys in the state treasury.
not otherwise appropriated, TO the
ture; provided. that the amount thus ex-
pended shall not exceed the sum of six
thousand dollars in any one year
4. And be ii enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately
Approved March 81. 1890.