Provincial Hospital for the Insane, and there deliver

into the custody of the Medical Superintendent thereof, or other person in charge.

And we do hereby request you, the said Superintendent of the aforesaid Hospital for the Insane, to receive, and place under medical treatment the said

in the usual manner.

until released

in the

A. D.

CHAP. 37.

TITLE X.

OF AGRICULTURE.

CHAPTER 37.

OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

central board of

1. The Governor in Council shall annually appoint a Appointment of Central Board of Agriculture, consisting of seven persons, agriculture. of whom one shall be selected from among the members of the Executive Government of the Province, and the remaining six shall be selected from the six districts. mentioned in Schedule B, in the manner hereinafter provided. Five of such Board shall be a quorum, and they shall be a body corporate, under the name of the "Central Board of Agriculture."

central board,

2. It shall be the duty of the officers of every agri- Nominations for cultural society, immediately after their election at the how made. annual meeting in December, to nominate one person suitable for appointment to the Central Board; and the secre- Name, &c., to be tary of every society shall forthwith transmit to the Secre- secretary. tary of the Central Board the name and address of the person so nominated.

transmitted to

council to select

3. The Governor in Council shall select six, from among Governor in the persons so nominated, to be members of the Central members. Board, one being chosen from each of the districts specified in Schedule B, and the preference being given, for each district, to the person nominated by the greatest number of societies. In case of an equality of votes for any number of the persons so nominated for any district, the Governor in Council shall determine who of the number shall be the member.

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In case of neglect to nomi

nate, &c., member to be appointed.

Members to retire annually.

Vacancies in

board, how filled.

First meeting; when held.

4. In case the officers of the agricultural societies for any district shall neglect or refuse to nominate any person for appointment to the Central Board, or if the secretaries of the societies shall transmit no such name and address, the Governor in Council shall appoint a member of such Central Board for such district.

5. All members of the Board shall retire annually on the thirty-first day of January; but shall be eligible for re-appointment.

6. When vacancies occur in the Board from other causes than the annual retirement of members on the thirty-first day of January, the Governor in Council may at once appoint new members without reference to nominations by societies.

7. The first meeting of the Board shall be held at such time and place as the Governor in Council shall direct, Election of offi- when they shall elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer.

cers.

General meeting to be held in Halifax.

8. There shall be held in each year at least one general meeting of the Board, which shall take place at Halifax in the month of March, during the sitting of the Legislature, and of which at least ten days' notice shall be given. Special meetings Special meetings may be called by the Secretary at the instance of the President, or upon the written request of three members, and may be held at such times and places as the President or such three members shall determine.

may be called by secretary.

Members only to receive actual travelling expenses.

Duties of board.

To form county societies.

To receive reports.

To publish and distribute jour

nal.

To obtain new stock, grain, &c.,

9. The Board shall not pay or allow any sum to a member thereof for acting as such member, except the amount of his actual hotel expenses, and necessary travelling expenses in attending its regular meetings, which shall not in any case exceed six cents a mile for the distance actually travelled in going to and returning from such meetings. 10. It shall be the duty of the Board

I. To take measures for the formation of county or district societies and for infusing new vigor and efficiency into those already in existence.

II. To receive the accounts and reports of such societies, and before granting the certificates hereinafter mentioned to entitle them to participate in the provincial grant, to see that they have complied with the provisions of this Chapter.

III. To publish a monthly journal, for the diffusion of agricultural and horticultural information adapted to the condition and circumstances of the country, and to cause the same to be distributed as generally as possible.

IV. To take measures to obtain from other countries for distribution. animals of new or improved breeds, new varieties of grains, seeds, vegetables, plants or other agricultural productions for general and equitable distribution throughout

the several counties; and to adopt every measure in their CHAP. 37. power generally to promote improvement in the agricul ture and horticulture of the Province.

ral provincial

year.

V. To hold every third year or oftener, should the To hold a geneBoard deem it advisable, in some central and suitable exhibition at locality, a general provincial exhibition of agricultural and least every third horticultural products, animals and domestic manufactures; and to fix the time, articles of competition, and list of prizes to be awarded, and the regulations under which such exhibitions shall be held, of which due notice shall be given at least twelve months before the same shall take place; and in holding the same due regard shall be had to the just claims of the several counties.

inspectors of so

11. The Board may at any time appoint a person to in- Board to appoint spect the books and accounts of any society in the Province cieties. receiving Government aid in connection with agriculture; and all officers of every such society, whenever required. so to do, shall submit its books and accounts to such inspection, and truly, to the best of their knowledge, answer all questions put to them in relation thereto, or to the funds. of the society.

draw certain

application

12. For the purposes of this Chapter the Board shall Board entitled to be entitled to draw from the Provincial Treasury annually sum of money; such sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, as the thereof and acGovernor in Council may authorize, out of which they counts. may expend a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars for the salaries of their officers, and a further sum not exceed. ing one hundred dollars for stationery and other incidental expenses; and they shall exhibit to the Government, for the information of the Legislature, every year an account of the expenditure of the same, with proper vouchers, and a full report of their proceedings.

cieties: how or

13. Agricultural societies may be organized in any Agricultural socounty wherever forty persons or more shall become mem- ganized. bers thereof, by signing a declaration in the form of Schedule A to this Chapter, and paying each not less than one subscription. dollar annually to the funds thereof. A true copy of such declaration shall, within one month after the money has been so paid, be transmitted to the Secretary of the Central Board.

nized entitled to

amount of sub

14. When any society shall be so organized, such When so orgasociety shall be entitled to draw annually from the Board draw from treaby warrant in favor of its president and on the certificate sury double of the Secretary of the Central Board, not more than seriptions. double the amount of the subscriptions so raised and paid; the payment of such subscriptions to be certified upon oath by the secretary or treasurer of the society; but Not to exceed no county society shall be entitled to draw more than two hundred and fifty dollars in any one year.

$250 per annum.

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Government allowance; how apportioned.

Boundaries; how

defined.

Objects of agri

15. In counties where more than one agricultural society exist the Provincial allowance shall be given on the principle in section fourteen, not exceeding for any county the sum of four hundred dollars in any one year; and the same shall be apportioned among such societies by the Central Board in a rateable proportion to the amount of the subscriptions raised and paid by each society for the year in which such allowance shall be claimed; but no society shall draw more than two hundred and fifty dollars.

16. In case of any difficulties arising as to the bonndaries of any such societies, the Central Board shall define the same.

17.

The objects of such agricultural societies shall be cultural societies. to encourage and promote the introduction of improved stock, seeds, fruit, roots, implements, methods of culture, drainage, orchard cultivation, and improvement in farm buildings and domestic manufactures; to hold shows and exhibitions; to award premiums for excellence, and to diffuse information concerning agriculture and horticulture. The funds of such societies, derived from the subscriptions of members or the public grant, shall not be expended for any object inconsistent with those above mentioned.

Annual meetings of societies.

First officers to continue until successors appointed.

Special meetings.

May alter byelaws, &c.

Annual report,

18. The annual meetings of the societies shall be held on the first Tuesday of December in each year, when they shall each elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, and not more than five directors.

19. The officers appointed at the formation of such societies shall, until the election of their successors at the annual meeting, exercise all the powers vested in the societies by this Chapter.

20. They shall hold special meetings, pursuant to adjournment or on written notice from the secretary, which shall be given one week before the day appointed for any such meeting, and at any such meeting five shall be a quorum.

21. The said officers and directors may at any such meeting make, alter and repeal bye-laws and rules for the management of such society, copies of which shall within one month thereafter be forwarded to the Secretary of the Central Board for its approval.

22. Such officers and directors shall, in addition to the when presented. ordinary duties of management, present at the annual meeting in December, a report of the proceedings of the society during the year, in which shall be stated the names of all the members of the society, the amount paid by each, the names of all persons to whom premiums were awarded, with the name of the animal, article or thing in respect of which the same was granted, together with such remarks

upon the agriculture of the county as they may be enabled CHAP. 37. to offer, and a statement of the receipts and disbursements of the society during the year; which report and statement, if approved by the meeting, shall be entered in the journal of the society; and a true copy thereof, certified by the president and secretary to be correct, shall be sent to the Central Board within one month thereafter.

neglect.

23. If any society shall neglect to render such accounts Forfeiture for and report, it shall forfeit its claims to the provincial grant for the year next succeeding.

to hold annual

24. The county society, where but one exists in a County societies county, and the several societies where more than one are show. established therein, shall be requested to hold an annual show for the exhibition of agricultural and horticultural produce, farm stock, and articles of domestic manufacture; at which prizes shall be granted for the best specimens produced and such shows shall be held at such times and places and under such regulations as the majority of the officers and directors of the several county societies may determine.

may be adopted

25. If the officers and directors of the agricultural Other system society of any county or part of a county consider that in place of show any other system might advantageously be substituted for that of shows, and that the sum allotted to such society might be better applied to the importation of stock or to any other purpose for the improvement of agriculture; in such case they may so apply the said sum, provided notice thereof has been given to the Board of Agriculture and its approval of such appropriation obtained.

chapter.

26. The provisions of this Chapter shall extend to all Application of agricultural societies at present in existence; as well as to those hereafter to be established.

SCHEDULES.

A.

We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, agree to form ourselves into a society under the provisions of the Chapter of the Revised Statutes, "Of the Encouragement of Agriculture," to be named the Agricultural

Society in the County of; and we severally agree to pay to the Treasurer of the said Society towards the funds thereof annually the sums set opposite our respective names.

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