STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO. His Excellency, A. P. Morehouse. Hon. W. E. Coleman, Superintendent of Publie Schools. S. S. Laws, LI.. D., President of University of Missouri and Agricultural College. J. W. Sanborn, Dean of State Agricultural College. APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR. J. A. Potts, Esq., President...... Abiel Leonard, Esq., Vice-President... .Mexico, Audrain county. Mt. Leonard, Saline county. St. Louis City. Hon. N. J. Colman, U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture...... John R. Rippey, Esq.. B. C. Cowan, Esq.. .Glenwood, Schuyler county. Ironton, Iron county. BY-LAWS. SECTION 1. The officers of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture shall consist of a President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at the meetings of the Board, to sign all warrants on the Treasurer ordered by the Board, and to perform such other duties as are or may me required by law. He shall be ex officio chairman of the executive committee. In his absence, the Vice-President shall perform his duties. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep and preserve the minutes and records of the Board, and the proceedings of the executive committee, to furnish a copy of the same for publication, previous to the expiration of his term of service, and to countersign all warrants on the Treasurer for money. SEC. 4. The Treasurer shall keep the funds of the Board, and pay all warrants drawn by order of the Board, signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary, and shall make his report at the annual meeting in November, of his receipts and expenditures, from whence received and to whom paid, properly arranged for publication. He shall give bond in such penal sum as may be required by the Board for the faithful performance of his duties, and the payment of all moneys in his hands. and SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to conduct all correspondence with societies and individuals; to issue such circulars for obtaining statistics or other information as the Board may direct, or as may be deemed expedient or useful; to collate and arrange the correspondence, proceedings of the Board and the proceedings of the county societies for report and publication, as required by law, distribute to county societies and others entitled to them, all seeds, plants, publications, etc., which may be acquired by the Board for distribution. His term of office shall hereafter commence the first day of March, and continue one year, and until his successor is elected. SEC. 6. The President, Vice-President and Secretary shall constitute an executive committee, whose duty it shall be to inspect and audit all accounts, to inspect and pass upon all papers entering into the annual report, and to perform such other duties as may be required of them in the intervals between the meetings of the Board. SEC. 7. The President shall have authority to call special meetings of the Board whenever he may deem it necessary or important to do so. SEC. 8. These by-laws may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the Board: Provided, that any member proposing to amend the by-laws at said meeting of the Board, shall give two weeks' notice prior to said meeting, to all the corporate members or their successors in office, of such intended motion to amend. SEC. 9. The records of the proceedings of the Board shall at all times be open to the inspection of the members. SEC. 10. Any corporate member, who shall be absent at two successive meetings (one of which shall be the annual meeting), shall forfeit his membership, and the Board may declare a vacancy in consequence thereof. LAWS CONCERNING THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL SOCIETIES. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. SECTION 4042. Board of Agriculture created—A Board of Agriculture is hereby instituted and created a body corporate, by the name and style of the "Missouri State Board of Agriculture," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to make and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure. SEC. 4043. Who shall constitute Board-shall meet and elect officers, when and where-salaries.-The persons named as corporators of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture heretofore existing, are hereby constituted the members of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, under this article, and there shall be a meeting of said Board of Agriculture as constituted by this article, held at the Agricultural College Building of the State University, on the second Wednesday of July, 1877, to elect a President, Secretary and Treasurer, and such other officers and agents as the Board shall deem necessary. And no officer, so appointed or elected by the said Board, shall receive any salary for his services, except the Treasurer and Secretary, and the salary of the Treasurer shall not exceed forty dollars per annum, nor shall the Secretary receive more than six hundred dollars per annum; and all the offices of the present Board of Agriculture are hereby declared to be vacant from and after the time when this act takes effect. (Laws 1877, p. 5, 2.) SEC. 4044. Who are ex officio members of the State Board. -The Governor, the State Superintendent of Public Schools, the President of the State University and the Dean of the Agricultural College, shall be ex officio members of the State Board of Agriculture, and the Governor shall appoint practical farmers to fill all vacancies as they occur in the corporate members of said Board of Agriculture. (Laws 1877, p. 5, 3.) SEC. 4045. Officers to be elected, when-term of office. The officers of said Board of Agriculture shall be elected at the annual meeting of said Board, except those elected as provided for in section four thousand and forty-three, who shall serve for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified; and the offices of the Secretary and Treasurer shall be in the Agricultural College Buildings of the State University, in the town of Columbia, Boone county. (Laws 1877, r. 6, ₹ 4.) SEC. 4046. Board to adopt by-laws. The Missouri State Board of Agriculture, and their successors, shall have power to adopt such by-laws and make such rules and regulations for the government of said Board and the management of its affairs and business, as they may deem best calculated to promote the interest of agriculture, and shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Missouri and of the United States. (G. S. 320, 5.) SEC. 4047. Annual meetings—membership.-There shall be held in the Agricultural College Building aforesaid, on the first Wednesday of November, in each year, an annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, together with the president of each county agricultural society, or delegate therefrom, duly authorized, who shall for the time being be ex officio members of the State Board of Agriculture, for deliberation and consultation as to the wants, prospects and condition of the agricultural interests of the State, to receive the reports of district and county societies, and to fill by elections all vacancies in the Board. The President shall have power to call meetings of the Board when he may deem it expedient, and at any meeting of said Board, seven members shall constitute a quorum; and all meetings of the Board shall be held at the place of holding the regular meetings of the Board, in November of each year. (Laws 1877, p. 6, 6.) SEC. 4048. Agricultural and Horticultural Societies to make report to Board.—It shall be the duty of all agricultural and horticultural societies, organized and established in accordance with the laws of this State, to make a full report of their transactions to the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, at each annual meeting thereof. (G. S. 320, 7.) SEC. 4049. Board shall make annual report to General Assembly-report shall contain, what.-It shall be the duty of the said Board to make an annual report to the General Assembly of the State, embracing the proceedings of the Board for the past year, and an abstract of the reports and proceedings of the several agricultural and horticultural societies, as well as a general view of the condition of agriculture and horticulture throughout the State, accompanied by such recommendations, including especially such a system of public instruction upon those subjects as may be deemed interesting and useful (G. S. 320, 8.) SEC. 4050. Printing and distribution of annual reports of Board.-The public printer shall, annually, under the direction of the President of the State Board of Agriculture, print fourteen thousand copies, of which two thousand shall be in the German language, of the annual report of the said Board of Agriculture; five hundred copies to be bound in cloth, balance in paper covers, to be distributed as follows: Twenty copies to each member of the General Assembly, fifty bound copies to the State Library, thirty copies to each county clerk for distribution among the farmers, as generally as may be, and the remainder to the State Board of Agriculture, to be distributed among the several agricultural and horticultural societies and farmers' clubs of this State and other States, as the Board may direct: Provided, that said annual report shall not contain more than five hundred pages. (Laws 1875, p. 3, 1.) |