AGRICULTURE 201

An Code 1924, sec 13 1912, sec 13 1904, art 23, sec 17 1892, ch 670. 1894, ch 420

1906, ch 746 1918, ch 293

19. Any county in this State, which or whose citizens shall subscribe
for and pay up a capital stock of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars,
or shall acquire and pay for real estate and improvements thereon to the
said value of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars, and shall be duly
incorporated under the laws of this State as a fair association, upon filing
a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation, and the affidavit of the
president of such association that the stock has been fully paid up or the
property acquired and paid for the amount herein required with the Comp-
troller, shall be entitled to the benefits of this sub-title; provided, that but
one association in each county shall be entitled to the benefits derived
under this sub-title. ¹

An Code 1924, sec 14 1912, sec 14 1904, art 23, sec 17 1892, ch 670 1894, ch 420

1906, ch 746

20. Any existing association in this State or which may be hereafter
organized desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this sub-title, is hereby
required to forward to the Comptroller of the Treasury, on before the first
Monday in December of each year, a statement, under the hand of its
president, attested by the treasurer and the corporate seal of such asso-
ciation, giving in detail the financial condition of said association for the
year immediately preceding such application.

Drainage.

1937, ch 465

21. There is hereby established a State Department of Drainage under
the State Board of Agriculture, the said department to be administered
by the Professor of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Mary-
land who, for the purpose of this section, shall be designated as the State
Drainage Engineer.

It shall be the duty of the State Drainage Engineer to promote and
encourage the drainage of agricultural lands in the State, to correlate the
activities of the local drainage organizations in the State and to cooperate
with State and Federal agencies in the interest of a permanent program of
improved drainage. The State Drainage Engineer is hereby authorized
to use such technical and clerical assistance as may be under the control
of the State Board of Agriculture with the approval of said Board. The
State Department of Drainage shall have the powers necessary to accom-
plish the purposes herein set forth.

¹ The act of 1918, ch 293, repeals and re-enacts sec 2 of the act of 1906, ch 746, which
in turn repealed and re-enacted the act of 1894, ch. 420, which latter was codified in the
Code of 1904, as art 23, sec. 17 The act of 1908, ch 240, which revised the corporation
law of the state, repealed sec. 17 of art. 23, without, however, mentioning the act of
1906, ch 746. but on the theory that the act of 1908 repealed the act of 1906, the latter
was not codified in the An Code of 1912 In view of the repeal and re-enactment of sec 2
of the act of 1906, ch 746, by the act of 1918, ch 293, and of the decision of the Court of
Appeals in Baltimore v German-American Fire Ins. Co, 132 Md 380, it is thought
best to here codify the act of 1906 as amended by the act of 1918, appending this ex-
planation, so that those interested may reach their own conclusions