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force and effect of law, and all violations of which shall be punished as
misdemeanors are punished at common law; and where such powers and
duties are by law conferred or laid on other governmental agencies the
State Board of Agriculture and such other governmental agencies may
co-operate in the execution and performance thereof, and when so co-
operating each shall be vested with such authority as is now or may here-
after by law be conferred on the other. The powers and duties herein
recited shall be in addition to and not in limitation of any power and duties
which now are or hereafter may be conferred or laid upon said Board.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, sec. 8. 1916, ch. 391, sec. 8.

8. The State Board of Agriculture shall make a written report to the
General Assembly of Maryland at the beginning of its regular sessions of
the work performed by it and of its receipts and expenditures, and of such
other matters as the Governor shall direct; and shall also make reports
to the Governor at such times and upon such matters as he shall direct.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 9. 1912, sec. 9. 1916, ch. 391, sec. 9.

9. The State Board of Agriculture is empowered to call upon all
sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, policemen and other officers of the City
of Baltimore, or of any County, for information and assistance to carry out
and enforce the provisions of its rules and regulations and it shall be the
duty of all such named officers to obey and observe all orders and instruc-
tions which they may receive from said Board for the enforcement of all
the provisions of this Article within their respective jurisdictions, and
they shall be paid as for the performance of similar duties under exist-
ing laws.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 10. 1912, sec. 10. 1916, ch. 391, sec. 10.

10. It shall be the duty of all State's Attorneys to prosecute all persons
accused of violating the provisions of this Article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 11. 1912, sec. 11. 1916, ch. 551.

11. The assent of the State of Maryland is hereby given to the purposes,
provisions and requirements of the grant made by said Act, H. R. No.
7951 of the Second Session of the Sixty-third Congress, approved by the
President May 8, 1914, and the Maryland Agricultural College is hereby
designated as the institution entitled to receive the benefits of the said Act
and the Trustees of the said Maryland Agricultural College are hereby
authorized and empowered to receive the grants of money appropriated
under said Act and to organize and conduct the Agricultural Extension
work which shall be carried on in connection with said College or the
State of Maryland in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed
in the Act of Congress aforesaid.

The assent of the State of Maryland to the grants of money for the
purposes, upon the terms and in accordance with the several conditions
and provisions contained in said Act, is hereby signified and expressed
and the Secretary of the State is hereby directed to transmit a certified
copy of this Act to the Treasurer of the United States and to the Secretary
of Agriculture of the United States.