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Agricultural Experiment Stations and Schools.

cessors are appointed. The members of the board must not receive any compensation other than traveling expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board of control. The board of control shall have power to select a treasurer for each school, fix his bond and prescribe his duties, and from time to time, as the interests of the school may demand, shall require of him an additional or new bond. The board of control shall also have the power to select such other officers as they may deem advisable, prescribe their duties and remove them whenever in the judgment of the board the interests of the school require, and the board shall have power to make all necessary arrangements for drawing the funds provided by law and the disbursement of the same, and to make all needful rules and regulations and contracts necessary for the proper conduct of the school.

(Feb. 28, 1889, p. 1036; Feb. 13, 1893, p. 526; Feb. 21, 1893, p. 695; Feb. 21, 1893, p. 749; Feb. 18, 1895, p. 838; Feb. 18, 1895, p. 581.)

2, 1907,

60. (406) Appropriations out of agricultural fund; when as amendprorated.—For the support of the nine branch agricultural ed, Mar. schools and experiment stations, located in the first, second, p. 134. third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth congressional districts, respectively, in the State of Alabama, there shall be appropriated annually the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars to each of said schools, one-fourth of such sum to be paid quarterly, to wit: January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st of each year to the treasurer of the board of control of such schools.

(Jan. 30, 1897, p. 465, § 3.)

ed, Sep. p.

30, 1903,

259, §1;

Mar. 2,

1907, p.

61. (407) Not less than seven hundred and fifty dollars to as amendbe used in making agricultural experiments. Not less than seven hundred and fifty dollars of the sum so appropriated to each of said schools shall be used in maintaining, cultivating and improving the farms respectively, and making agricul- 134, § 2. tural experiments thereon under and by direction of the board of control and the professor of agriculture of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The course in scientific agriculture and floriculture, as required in section 67 (413), shall be formulated for the schools and experiment stations by the said professor of agriculture of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. When on official visits said professor of agriculture shall be paid by the board of control his traveling expenses thus incurred.

(Jan. 30, 1897, p. 465, §§ 1, 2.)

62. (408) Treasurer to give bond in sum of one thousand dollars.-The treasurer of the board of control shall give

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bond, payable to the president of the board of control, in the sum of at least one thousand dollars, conditioned to faithfully keep and disburse the funds of the school, and such board of control may require an additional bond at any time it may deem necessary.

(Jan. 30, 1897, p. 465, § 8.)

63. (409) Director of school. The president or principal of each of said schools shall be the director of the respective school and station in which he is employed, and he shall personally superintend the making of such experiments as will. advance the interests of scientific agriculture and cause such chemical analyses to be made as are deemed necessary, and perform such other duties in reference to such experiment stations as shall be required of him by the board of control.

64. (410) Bulletins to be prepared and published.—The president and board of control of said agricultural schools and experiment stations shall, from time to time, prepare bulletins of information for farmers and reports of agricultural experiments conducted by them, and answers to questions that may be asked them in practical farming and veterinary diseases, including condensed reports of the experiment station at Uniontown, and publish the same in all the weekly newspapers published in their respective congressional districts whose publishers will insert the same free of charge.

65. (411) President to make annual report to superintendent of education.-It shall be the duty of the president or principal of each of said schools to make to the superintendent of education, on or before September 30th of each year, a full report of the financial condition, workings and progress of said school, embracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements of money appropriated to such schools by this article, and a like report to the commissioner of agriculture and industries of the condition, expenses and workings of the experiment station connected with such school.

66. (412) President to make quarterly report to board as to finances.-It shall be the duty of the president and principal of each of such schools to report in writing quarterly to the board of control an itemized account of all incidental or matriculation fees and all other moneys received by him as such president or principal, together with the disposition of the same. He shall give receipts for all moneys received and take receipts for all moneys disbursed by him.

67. (413) Scientific agriculture must be taught.-Scientific and practical agriculture shall be taught at all the agricultural schools, and all male pupils over ten years of age who

Farmers' Institutes and Agricultural Fairs.

receive free tuition therein shall be required to take the course in scientific agriculture and horticulture, and all other pupils over the age of ten years receiving free tuition shall be required to take the course in floriculture and horticulture.

68. (414) Appropriation withheld unless agricultural experiments conducted by school. None of the said schools shall receive the appropriation provided for in this article, or any part thereof, unless such school shall be actually conducting an agricultural experiment station and agricultural school wherein such experiments are made as will tend to advance the interests of scientific farming.

69. (415) Course of study and training; certificate of proficiency or diploma.-The board of control and president of the factulty of said schools shall adopt a course of study with a view to educating and training pupils for teachers in the public schools of this state, which course of study shall embrace the different grades adopted by the state; to grant certificates of proficiency or diplomas to such pupils as shall complete the course of study so adopted, provided, that such certificates of proficiency or diplomas shall not entitle the holder to teach in the public schools in the state without examination.

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70. (416) Farmers' institutes. The commissioner is authorized and directed to adopt annually such measures as may be necessary to successfully conduct, in different sections of the state, farmers' institutes, consisting of lectures on subjects related to agriculture by persons of scientific attainments, and by practical and successful farmers, with discussions relating thereto, and of such exhibitions as may prove instructive and of practical value to the farmers of the vicinity where such institutes are held, a report of which, with a detailed statement of the money expended in that connection, must be embodied in his annual report.

(Feb. 28, 1889, p. 669.)

71. (417) Expenses of institutes.-The commissioner is authorized to pay the necessary expenses incurred in conducting such farmers' institutes, including the expense of employing lecturers when necessary, and for distributing the reports thereof; and for this purpose there is annually appropriated

Appropriation for Use of Department of Agriculture and Industries.
out of the funds of the department of agriculture and indus-
tries, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to be paid from the monthly estimate and allow-
ance for expenses of the department.

72. (418) Agricultural fairs; taxes on privileges remitted to. All state, county and municipal taxes on privileges are remitted and released to all agricultural fairs which may be granted or sold by them and conducted on their grounds during the exhibition of such fairs, on which a tax is now or may hereafter be levied by state, county or municipal authority; but this section shall not be construed to authorize any fair to sell or grant privileges on the grounds to wheels of fortune, or any game of chance, or any device inimical to the laws of the state.

ARTICLE 7.

APPROPRIATION FOR USE OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES.

73-75.

Aug. 9, 1907, p.

751, § 1.

Aug. 9,

1907, p.

751, § 2.

SECTION.

73. Annual appropriation of four
thousand dollars to department
of agriculture and industries.

SECTION.

74. Payment of auditor's warrant. 75. Reports monthly to governor.

73. Annual appropriation of four thousand dollars to department of agriculture and industries.-There is appropriated annually for the use of the department of agriculture and industries, on approval of the governor, four thousand dollars out of any moneys arising from the sale of fertilizer tags, sales of licenses to deal in fertilizers, or any other moneys collected by the department of agriculture and industries and paid into the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of obtaining samples of each and every brand of fertilizer sold or exchanged, or offered for sale and exchange in the State of Alabama, for each season in which fertilizers are offered for sale, and publishing the same; and for holding farmers' institutes, making experiments, gathering statistics, and carrying into effect all laws now in existence or that may hereafter be passed for the betterment of the agricultural interests of the state.

74. Payment by auditor's warrant. The auditor of Alabama shall draw his warrant upon the treasury of Alabama for such sums as the commissioner of agriculture and industries may make requisition for, upon the approval of the governor, at the end of each month, not to exceed the said amount of four thousand dollars for any fiscal year; but nothing contained in this article shall be construed as interfering with

Soil Surveys and Analysis.

the provisions as set forth in section 397 of the Code of Alabama of 1896.

751, $3.

75. Reports monthly to governor.-The commissioner of Aug. 9, agriculture and industries shall submit monthly reports to the 1907, p. governor of all moneys received and expended by the department of agriculture and industries.

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1907,

p. 587, §§ 1

and 3.

76. Soil surveyors appointed; duties of.-The commissioner Aug. 13, of agriculture and industries may appoint, on approval of the governor, one or more persons, who shall be known as soil surveyors, and whose duties it shall be to investigate, survey, analyze, class soils; and investigate the cause and prevention of diseases in farm products and plants, and the drainage of soils and the investigation of methods of growing and fermenting of tobacco in the different tobacco sections of the state, and to determine the relative crop values of soils in the areas surveyed; to further make investigations with the view of introducing more remunerative crops, or crops better adapted to the conditions and peculiar characteristics of the soils surveyed, and to give the location and boundaries of the areas surveyed, and describe the general topographic features and regional drainage, character and source of population, present conditions as to settlement, chief towns, transportation facilities, markets and water powers and timber resources. The soil surveyor or surveyors shall attend the state agricultural institutes and other agricultural meetings or schools, and lecture on soils, exhibiting maps of areas surveyed, and furnishing such other information as shall be required by the commissioner of agriculture and industries.

Aug. 13,

587, § 2.

77. Surveys; results of, mapped and printed.—The results of the investigations shall be carefully outlined and mapped 1907, p. in reports to the commissioner of agriculture and industries, who in return shall report the same to the governor. The reports shall be printed and maps lithographed in such a manner that the conditions and peculiar fitness of all areas thus examined, surveyed and analyzed can be furnished to the farmers of the state, and prospective immigrants and home

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