104 CHEMIST—AGRICULTURAL. [ART. 18.

5. The agricultural chemist shall spend one year in each of
said districts, in the order named, and one month in each
county; and shall visit each election district.

6. He shall deliver one public lecture (having first given
tinfely notice thereof,) in each county, and shall give previous
notice of the delivery of such lecture in each election district.

7. He shall permit the clerk of the county commissioners of
each county to take a copy of the said lectures—to be retained
and kept for the use and benefit of the county, and to be pub-
lished by the county commissioners, if to them it shall seem
expedient.

8. He shall analyze specimens of each variety of soil that may
be brought to him from any of the counties, or that he may find
to exist; and shall examine, and if necessary analyze specimens
of each kind of marl or other mineral or vegetable deposit that
may come to his knowledge.

9. He shall, whenever an application is made to him by any
person desiring to sell or purchase any plaster of Paris offered
for sale within this State, and upon the presentation of a sample,
analyze the same and return a certificate to the applicant of the
properties of said sample; and he shall receive therefor the sum
of fifty cents per sample.

10. He shall make an annual report to the House of Dele-
gates, if in session, and if not, then to the Governor, whose
duty it shall be to cause the same to be published, of his pro-
ceedings, a'nd such other matters touching the agricultural in-
terests of the State, as may be considered necessary.