AN ACT Authorizing Administrators and Guardians to Mortgage Real Estate of Intestates. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory Probate Judge Mortgage of Estates. of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. That Section 1, of Chapter 1, Session to Authorize Laws of 1895, be, and the same is hereby amended Intestate to read as follows: Section 1. The probate judge may, upon petition supported by competent testimony showing that the best interests of the estate demand it, by order grant authority to the administrators of intestate estates, or to guardians of the estates of minors, to mortgage any real estate belonging to such estate, where mortgages existing on such real estate are due, or to become due, and there is not sufficient money belonging to the estate with which to pay or redeem such mortgage; Provided, That in no instance shall authority be granted by such judge to such administrator, or guardian, to mortgage such real estate for a greater sum than the amount secured by the original mortgage. SECTION 2. That Section 2, of said Act, be, and the Notice and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. Upon the filing of the petition mentioned in the preceding section, the probate judge shall set a time for the hearing of the same and the administrator, or guardian, shall cause notice thereof to be made by publication in a newspaper published, or of a Procedure. general circulation, in the county wherein such hear- SECTION 3. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict SECTION 4. This Act shall be in force from and Members of ARTICLE. CHAPTER II. AGRICULTURE. 1. Establishing Board of Agricul- ARTICLE. 2. To Encourage Agriculture, ARTICLE 1.-ESTABLISHING BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. AN ACT Establishing a Board of Agriculture and Defining its Duties and for Other Purposes. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory SECTION 1. That a Board of Agriculture is here- shall then be to call a meeting of the delegates elected by such institutes, said meeting to be held at the Territorial capital, for the purpose of electing the six members of said Board, of whom two shall be elected for the full term of three years, two for the term of two years, and two for the term of one year, and thereafter two members shall be so elected for the full term of three years at each annual meeting. If vacancies occur in the membership from any cause, the Governor shall fill the same by appointment, on recommendation of the Board, until the next annual meeting, when such vacancies shall be filled by election for the remainder of the unexpired term. Election and Bonds of Secretary; Duties of SECTION 2. Members of the Board of Agriculture shall be entitled to vote on every proposition Duties of with the delegates from the several farmers' insti- Powers and tutes in the annual meeting. Four members of the Board. said Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Said Board shall elect from its own members a president, vice-president and treasurer, and it shall elect as its secretary a person who is not a member. Said Board shall require the treasurer and the secretary to each file a sufficient bond to insure a faithful performance of their respective duties. The secretary shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the Board. It shall also be the duty of the secretary of the Board to co-operate with the faculty of the Agricultural and Mechanical College and the staff of the Agricultural Experiment Station in the preparation of programs for institute meetings, and to attend the annual meeting of each county farmers' institute. The powers and duties of the Board of Agriculture shall include the collection and publication of statistical information concerning agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry and kindred industries of Oklahoma, and it shall have supervision of the county farmers' institute system. Meetings of Board; Com Members. Said Board shall furthermore have power to adopt and devise such regulations as may be necessary to secure the efficient administration and proper enforcement of all laws which have for their object the preservation, protection and encouragement or improvement of any branch of agriculture, which same may be now in force or which may hereafter be enacted, except such as have already been specifically delegated to the Board of Regents of the Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Livestock Sanitary Commission. SECTION 3. The Board of Agriculture shall hold pensation of meetings for the transaction of business at such times and places as the exigencies of the public interest may require, said meetings to convene on the call of the president of the Board; Provided, That said Board shall meet at the Territorial capital on the first Monday in July of each year for the purpose of organizing and electing officers; And, Provided further, that the annual meeting of said Board shall be held at the Territorial capital, beginnig on the second Tuesday of February of each year, at which time new members shall be elected as herein before provided; And, Provided further, That not more than twenty days shall be occupied in regular or called meetings in any one calendar year. Each member of said Board of Agriculture shall receive compensation at the rate of three dollars per day for each day spent in attendance upon meetings, and three cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled going to and returning from said meetings, said per diem and mileage to be paid by the Territorial Treasurer upon warrants drawn by the Territorial Auditor. Annual Report of Board. SECTION 4. The Board of Agriculture shall issue an annual report, summarizing the statistics collected as hereinafter provided, detailing an account of the work of the Board during the pre ceding year, reviewing the work of the county farmers' institutes, and containing an account of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Board. SECTION 5. Upon application of not less than teen farmers resident in one county, the Institute; Secretary of the Territory shall issue a charter tute, Meetings Secretary to fif- Issue Charter to County County Insti of; Compensation of for a corporation to be known as the county Delegates. farmers' institute for such county. Each county farmers' institute shall hold its annual meeting at the county seat upon a date determined and announced by the Board of Agriculture. The programs of such annual meetings shall include the discussion of matters pertaining to agriculture and shall be published at least one month before the advertised date of the institute. Each institute shall, at its annual meeting, elect one delegate to the annual meeting of the Board of Agriculture. Delegates to the annual meeting of said Board shall receive compensation at the rate of two dollars per day for not more than three days and three cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from such meeting, said mileage and per diem to be paid by the Territorial Treasurer upon warrants to be drawn by the Territorial Auditor. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent any county institute from holding meetings at such other times and places as its officers and members may determine. County Clerk; SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of each county Duty of clerk to make a return to the Board of Agriculture, on blanks furnished by said Board, setting forth the amount and value of the various kinds of live stock, acreage and yield of farm crops, number and variety of trees in orchard, small fruit and forest plantations, area of native forest, number, area, and storage capacity of artificial ponds and reservoirs, and such other relevant matter as said Board may direct, so |