Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-10-19
ter IS. Revised Statutes Of Missouri. 1919.
are hereby repealed.
NO. 0.
REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE PEOPLE.

REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE PEOPLE.
An act creating a state department Of
agriculture and consolidating In said de-
partment the rights, powers and duties Of
various boards, commissions and officers.
Committee Substitute for House Bills
Nos. 4s2 and 600, Fifty-first General
Assembly.
AN ACT to create a state department Of
agriculture to be known as, the Mis-
souri, state department of agriculture,
and defining its jurisdiction; creating
the office of commissioner of agricul-
ture, n secretary of agriculture; pro-
viding for the appointment of deputy
commissioners of agriculture, inspect
ors, assistants, clerks and stenog-
raphers; transferring to said depart
ment Of agriculture the duty Of admin
istering and enforcing the provisions
OF chapter 109, Revised Statutes of Mis-
souri,, 1913, except with the specific ex-
ceptions in this act provided. the duty
OF administering and enforcing article
XII. chapter 81. Revised Statutes of Mis-
souri,, 1913, relating to registration of
stations, the duty of administering and
enforcing certain provisions of chapter
46, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1919,
relating to immigration; and the duty
OF administering and enforcing the pro-
visions of article II, chapter 40, relating
to warehouse commissioner n inspec-
ton of grain; and the duty of adminis-
tering and enforcing the provisions of
chapter So. Revised Statutes Of Mis-
souri,, 1913, relating to land reclamation;
making he commissions of agriculture
the secretary, deputies and en-
ployees of the department of agriculture
liable in case of violation of any Of the
provisions of the acts above referred to
or any part thereof. and repeating Sec
tons 1897, 5S9S. $500, 5000 and 1901 Of
chapter 46, Revised Statutes of Mis-
souri,, 1918; and sections 1898. 1904 and
1896 of chapter 40, Revised Statutes of
Missouri. 1919; and sections 7044 and
7047 of article 7, chapter Sc, Revised
Statutes of Missouri, 1919, and declar-
ing the intent and purpose of the gen.
eral assembly in the passage of this
act with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly Of
the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby created
n established a state department of
agriculture, which shall be known as 1.-THE
Missouri state department of agriculture"
by which name it shall have perpetual
succession, with lower to sue and be sued,
complain and defend in all courts; to take,
purchase and hold real estat and per-
sonal property; to sell, convey, or other
wise dispose of same. and to have and
use 9 common seal with power to alter
same.
Section 2. That the Missouri state de-
partment of agriculture shall be under the
direction, control and management of a
commissioner of agriculture, who shall be
appointed by the governor, by and with
the consent and approval Of the senate,
and who shall be a citizen of the state,
skilled in the business and science Of
agriculture.
Section 8. That the authority, duties,
powers and functions. by this act or
otherwise by law conferred upon the Mis-
souri, state department of agriculture,
shall be exercised and performed by and
through the commissioner of agriculture,
his deputies and authorized representa-
tives.
Section 4. That the duty of administer
ing and enforcing the provisions of the
| general laws of this state pertaining to
agriculture, horticulture. dairying and
other agricultural activities n pursuits,
more particularly the provisions of chap
ter 100, Revised Statutes of Missouri,
1913, except those pertaining to:
(a) Nurseries and the inspection there
Of as defined in sections 1864, 1866,
1896, 1867, 1858, 1869, 1870, 1871 and
1872 OF article 3 Of said chapter;
(b) County agricultural and mechanical
societies as defined in article z of said
chapter;
(c) County experiment stations as de-
fined in article 8 of said chapter;
(d) County farm bureaus as defined in
| apfiNla If nf said ohapfar. .
(e) Commercial fertilizers;
~ EXCEPT as otherwise in this act
provided:
Be n the same are hereby vested in
the commissioner Of agriculture, and in
performance of said duties, or any
thereof. he shall have spower and he is
hereby authorized to do any act or thing
with reference thereto which might law
fully hav been done by the Missouri state
board of agriculture, or any officer, APP
pointee. agent, or employee thereof.
Section 5. The authority, duties, func-
tions, jurisdictions. powers and privileges
Of tho commissioner of agriculture, with
reference to the administration and en-
forcement thereof shall extend to and In
clude: all of the provisions of chapter
1O9, Revised Statutes Of Missouri, 1919,
with the specific exceptions in this ACT
| SCI .1OElHs anu SHdI bpGClflCalIy INCLUDE
the administration and enforcement OF
the following provisions of said chapter
1903; the provisions Of: Article 1: article
Q; article 8, except as to sections ex.
cluded by the preceding section of this
act; article 4; article 5; article 6; article
0; article 10; article Ii; article 10; article
IA; article Is; article II, md article 1S
Section g., That the Missouri stallion
registry board or board for registration
of stations, as established by section
1884, article IL, chapter 81, Revised Stat.
utes of Missouri, 1919, be and the same Ii
hereby abolished, and all the authority
d lies, functions and powers, privileges
liabilities, and penalties heretofore con.
ferred on or imposed upon said board
under n by virtue of sections 1884
1866, 1886, 1857, 1853, 1859, 4370, 4371
4372, 1873, 4374. 4375, 1876 and 4377 o
said article and chapter, be and tn,
same are hereby transferred to, vested in
required Of, and in the case Of violation
imposed upon the COMMISSIONS Of agri
culture, and wherever the words ''stal
lion registry board or the word board
occurs in said sections, or any thereof, 4
shall hereafter be deemed to include ans
refer to the commissioners of agriculture
and whenever, in said sections. or an!
thereof, the word Secretary occurs, /
shall be held to include and refer to tn,
secretary of the Missouri state depart,
ment OF agriculture, appointed under thi
act, whose duty 1t shall be to do ant
perform all secretarlRl duties necessary t
the effectual administration and enforce
ment of any OF the provisions OF salt
article.
Section Z. In addition to the specih
rannfrananfa In fhia MT ronfofuad ruitl