when any of the apparatus so tested is found at fault, in which case the expense shall be borne by the sugar factory at fault. Such expense may be collected in the name of the people of the State of Colorado, for the benefit of said State Inspector as any debt together with the cost of collection and the district attorney of the district in which such test was made shall bring the action in any court of competent jurisdiction. In no case shall said inspector receive more than ten ($10.00) dollars per day for time actually and necessarily spent in making such test and his necessary traveling expenses. Every owner or lessee shall without previous notice, give said inspector free and unobstructed access to all apparatus to be tested. No instrument found defective or incorrect shall thereafter be used until corrected. Section 5. Whenever any local chemist desires to test any polariscope used in testing sugar beets in the factory where he is stationed, the State Agricultural College through said State Inspector of Laboratory Apparatus. shall furnish to said local chemist at cost a sufficient quantity of a standardized pure sugar solution. Said chemist shall possess all the powers of the aforesaid State Inspector for testing such apparatus by means of said. solution. State infurnish sugar solution. spector to farmer. Section 6. The term farmer, under this act, shall be Definition of held to mean the person or persons in whose name the contract for the growing of beets is made with the sugar factory, in the event that they have a contract, and in the event that there be no contract, it shall include the person or persons actually farming the land upon which said beets were grown, whether said person or persons be owner or tenant. vote. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That in determining a ma- Proviso, jority of the farmers as hereinbefore provided, but one vote shall be given to any and all persons having a joint interest in any specific acreage of beets, but that such persons having such joint interest, shall count as one farmer for such purpose. sugar factory. Section 7. The word sugar factory for the purposes Definition of this act, shall include all persons, corporations or associations operating any plant for the manufacture of beet sugar and for the proper construction of this act, Organization voluntary. Violations, penalty. District attor neys to prosecute. shall include the officers, agents and employees of any such person, corporation or association. Section 8. The organization of the farmers for the purpose of selecting said chemist shall be voluntary, and all persons participating in the selection of such chemist shall contribute to the costs and expenses, including salary, of maintaining such chemist, and no sugar factory shall be required to accept or receive more than one chemist for each operating shift of said factory. Each sugar factory violating the terms of this act shall suffer a penalty of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each and every day of such violation, said penalty to be recovered in the name of The People of the State of Colorado, upon relation of any farmer or farmers included within the majority employing the chemist, designated pursuant to the terms hereof, for such factory, and shall be paid into the Road Fund of the County wherein such sugar factory is located. The District Attorney of the District in which such sugar factory is located is hereby empowered and directed to prosecute all violations of this act. Approved: May 1st, 1913, at 10:31 o'clock P. M. CHAPTER 5. AGRICULTURE. IMPROVED METHODS. (S. B. No. 227, by Senator Reynolds.) AN ACT IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURE, ITS IMPROVEMENT AND DE- Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. The County Commissioners of each county of the State are hereby authorized and may upon the petition of one hundred taxpayers within the county or persons who are the owners of farms or engaged in actual agricultural operations, to appoint a County Agriculturist in and for such county. Such County Agriculturist shall possess a broad and practical knowledge of agriculture and allied industries, and shall hold a certificate of competence from the State Board of Agriculture. County Agripointment. culturist, ap Section 2. It shall be the function and duty of the Duties. County Agriculturist to study the farm management, and to give instruction to farmers of the county upon their own farms, and at neighborhood meetings; to aid in the development of the agricultural community; to cooperate, so far as practicable, with agricultural associations in the county whose object is the betterment of agriculture in the county; and generally to promote agricultural development of the county and its associated interests by all. Salary, expenses. Authorized to appropriate money. Investigation of disease. Definitions. suitable and approved methods; to cooperate with and act under the general direction of the State Agricultural College of Colorado, and the United States Department of Agriculture. Section 3. The salary of the County Agriculturist shall be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners making the appointment, and shall be paid out of the general fund of the county in and for which he has been appointed or the county advertising fund as provided by Section 1212, Chapter 146, Revised Statutes, 1908, or either fund; and he shall hold office for the term fixed by the said Board of Commissioners, subject, however, to removal and discharge at any time by said Board for neglect of duty, misfeasance or malfeasance in office. The actual expenses incurred by the County Agriculturist and authorized by the Board of County Commissioners shall be paid by the county on vouchers submitted by the County Agriculturist except so far as his said expenses shall be provided for out of funds furnished under cooperative agreement by the State Board of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture. Section 4. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, the Board of County Commissioners of each county is hereby authorized to appropriate money to pay said salaries and expenses and to provide the necessary equipment, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the use and expenditure of said moneys not inconsistent with the provisions hereof. And it shall also be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture to cooperate with each Board of County Commissioners as aforesaid and to render all assistance possible to aid in carrying out the provisions hereof. Section 5. Provided also that when the agricultural production of any county is seriously threatened by disease, pests or other agency, the Board of County Commissioners of such county is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate and expend funds for the purpose of conducting investigations under the supervision of the State Agricultural College of the cause of such disease, pests or other agency and for the control thereof. Section 6. The words "agriculture" or "agriculturist" as used in this act, shall be deemed to include "horticulture" or a "horticulturist." clause. Section 7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with Repealing this act are hereby repealed. Approved: April 13th 1913 at 10:25 o'clock A M. CHAPTER 6. ALAMOSA COUNTY. CREATED. (S. B. No. 545, by Senator Adams, by request.) AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE COUNTY OF ALAMOSA AND THE TEM- MAL DISTRICTS. Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That so much of the counties of Conejos and Costilla as is included within the following described boundaries shall be set apart and is hereby established as a county to be called the County of Alamosa, and the boundaries are as follows, to-wit: described. Beginning at the northwest corner of Costilla County Territory at the intersection of the line between ranges eight (8) and nine (9) east of the New Mexico Principal Meridian, with the division line between the County of Saguache and the County of Costilla; thence, south on the line between said ranges eight (8) and nine (9) twenty-seven miles, more or less, to a point where said line intersects |