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1920, one to serve until the first Monday of June 1921, one to serve until
the first Monday of June 1922, one to serve until the first Monday of June
1923, one to serve until the first Monday of June 1924, one to serve until
the first Monday of June 1925. The members of said Board shall not
receive compensation for their services but shall be paid their reasonable
necessary expenses while engaged in the discharge of their official duties,
and before entering upon such duties shall take the oath prescribed by the
Constitution. In case of any vacancy the Governor shall appoint a person
to fill the same, to serve until the expiration of the time for which the
person so vacating said office was appointed. Commencing in the year
1917 and thereafter the Governor shall appoint one member every year as
the term of the members appointed in the year 1916, and their successors,
may expire. ¹

As to appropriations for Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration work in connection
with the United States Department of Agriculture or the University of Maryland, see
art 25, sec. 166.

As to duties of board of agriculture relative to live stock, see art 58, sec 1, et seq

An Code, 1924, sec 2 1912, sec 2 1908, ch 161 1916, ch 391, sec 2

2. The State Board of Agriculture, immediately after its organization,
is empowered to make reasonable rules and by-laws not in conflict with the
Constitution and Laws of this State for its regulation and guidance, and
repeal or amend the same as occasion may require. It shall employ such
executive officers, heads of departments, specialists, clerks, inspectors and
assistants of every kind as it may deem necessary to carry out in a thorough
manner all powers and duties now or hereafter assigned to it, prescribe
their duties and fix their compensation, and the salaries of such employees
shall be payable out of such funds as are now or may hereafter be appro-
priated to said Board for the general purposes thereof or for specific pur-
poses, as designated from time to time. The executive officers and heads
of departments shall be appointed by a majority of the whole board, and
shall not be removed from office except by a majority vote of the whole
Board, when in their judgment the good of the work demands. The Board
may also delegate the power to employ and discharge employees to execu-
tive officers or heads of departments. The Board shall establish an office or
offices for the transaction of its business at such place or places as to it
shall seem most expedient, and is empowered to do any and all things
necessary or proper for the performance of its duties.

An Code, 1924, sec. 3. 1912, sec 3 1906, ch 217

3. The assent of the State of Maryland is hereby given to the purposes
of the grant made by the Act of the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress
of the United States known as the Adams Bill H. R. 345, entitled "An

¹ The act of 1916, ch 372, incorporates the Maryland State College of Agriculture (now
the University of Maryland), provides for trustees thereof and their meetings, for the
officers of said college and their salaries, prescribes the powers of the trustees and officers,
confers upon the state college of agriculture all endowments now owned by the Maryland
Agricultural College, imposes upon the former all the powers and duties devolving upon
the latter, names the state college of agriculture to receive appropriations and grants
coming from the United States government, and vests in said corporation all property
used or operated by, or in the possession of, the Maryland Agricultural College and the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, and provides that the attorney general of
Maryland shall be the legal adviser of the trustees

The act of 1916, ch 225, directs the Governor to appoint the same persons upon the
board of trustees of the Maryland State College of Agriculture and the state board of
agriculture.