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The board of commissioners of State contracts shall provide all needful books, papers, stationery and printing on requisition by the secretary of the Illinois farmers' institute.

§ 2. If the officers of a county farmers' institute fail to arrange for and hold farmers institute meetings as provided for in this Act, the board of directors of the Illinois farmers' institute, through its officers and assistants, may plan, promote, furnish instructors for, and hold such meetings in said county as in the judgment of the board of directors may be beneficial to the agricultural interest of said county; the expense of said meetings shall be paid out of any funds available for that purpose.

§ 3. On the order of the president of a county farmers' institute, approved by the director of the congressional district, the secretary of the Illinois farmers' institute shall draw his warrant on the treasurer of the Illinois farmers' institute for the said seventy-five dollars ($75.00) and deliver it to the treasurer of the county farmers' institute: Provided, that the officers of said county farmers' institute shall, when issuing said order, file with the secretary of the Illinois farmers' institute a sworn statement which shall show that the said county institutes have held one or more duly advertised public sessions annually in accordance with such rules as are prescribed by the board of directors of the Illinois farmers' institute: Provided, further, that if the necessary expenses of a county farmers' institute shall not equal the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) as shown by receipted vouchers submitted with the aforesaid sworn statement, the said warrant shall be drawn only for the sum expended, and final report made to the Governor as provided by law.

§ 4. No officer or officers of a county farmers' institute shall be entitled as such officer or officers, to receive any moneyed compensation for any service rendered the same.

5. In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of an Act entitled, "An Act creating the Illinois farmers' institute," approved July 1, 1895, and subsequent amendments thereto, the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and instructed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sums herein specified, in favor of the treasurer of the Illinois farmers' institute, and deliver the same to him upon requisition for same, signed by the president and the secretary of said Illinois farmers' institute, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any money in the State treasury appropriated for the purposes of said Act as amended.

APPROVED June 28th, 1915.

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(HOUSE BILI. No. 935. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1915.)

AN ACT making an appropriation in aid of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Bee-Keepers' Association, the Illinois Dairymen's Association, the Illinois State Poultry Association, the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association, the Illinois State Academy of Science, and the Illinois State Horticultural Society.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary respectively for the purposes hereinafter named, be and are hereby appropriated to the boards, societies and associations following, to-wit:

(A) To the State Board of Agriculture the sum of one hundred fifty-three thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars ($153,150.00) *[$88,400.00] for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

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(B) To the Illinois State Bee Keepers' Association, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

Printing report, notices and other bee liter

ature

Shorthand reporter and compiling reports..
Postage

Per annum.

Total.

$550.00
200.00

$1,100.00

400.00

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Expense of meetings of Illinois Bee-Keepers'

Association

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$1,000.00 $2,000.00

(C) To the Illinois Dairymen's Association, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

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$2,500.00

$5,000.00

(D) To the Illinois State Poultry Association, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915,

and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

Per annum.

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(E) To the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

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(F) *To the Illinois State Academy of Science, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

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(G) To the Illinois State Horticultural Society, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows:

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§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the moneys herein appropriated in favor of the board, society or association hereinbefore mentioned, upon proper voucher presented to him, signed by the President of such board, society or association, and attested by the Secretary of the same and approved by the Governor.

APPROVED (except as to items and amounts vetoed in my veto message of this date) June 29th, 1915.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act, as printed above, except the words and figures in brackets, is a correct copy of House Bill No. 935, as enrolled and submitted to the Governor for his approval. The items marked with a star, (*) to wit: (State Board of Agriculture) "For salary of Secretary of said board, $4,000.00 per annum;" "For coal, coke and wood, $155.00 per annum;""For forage, $720.00 per annum;" "For traveling expenses of members of board, $3,000.00 per annum;" "For cattle barns, $20,000.00;" "For construction of a sanitary kitchen and toilets for Boys' State Fair School, $5,000.00;" "For construction of permanent and sanitary eating houses, $10,000.00;" "For reconstructing seating capacity of coliseum, $5,000.00;" "For constructing free grand stand, $20,000.00;" (Illinois State Academy of Science): "To the Illinois State Academy of Science, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows: Printing, $750.00 per annum; postage, $300.00 per annum; traveling expenses of speakers, $200.00 per annum; clerical help, $600.00 per annum; contingent fund, $150.00 per annum; total, $2,000.00 per annum;" were vetoed or vetoed in part by the Governor as indicated above after each item, by which action the total appropriation for all of the boards, societies and associations named and for the purposes stated in this Act is reduced from $179,150.00 to $110,400.00.

LEWIS G. STEVENSON, Secretary of State.

GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, SPRINGFIELD, June 29, 1915.

To the Honorable, the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Illinois:

I return herewith House Bill No. 935, "An Act making an appropriation in aid of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Bee-Keepers' Association, the Illinois Dairy men's Association, the Illinois State Poultry A-sociation, the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association, the Illinois State Academy of Science and the Illinois State Horticultural Society," and veto and withhold my approval from the following items and amounts therein contained:

In section 1, paragraph (a) To the State Board of Agriculture, the item: "For salary of Secretary of said board $4,000.00 per annum," I approve in the sum of $3,500.00 per annum and veto and withhold my approval of all of the sum in said item in excess of said sum of $3,500.00 per annum.

In section 1, paragraph (a), I veto the item: "For coal, coke and wood, $155.00 per annum."
In section 1, paragraph (a), veto the item: "For forage, $720.00 per annum.

In section 1, paragraph (a), the item: "For traveling expenses of members of board, $3,000.00 per annum," I approve in the sum of $2,000.00 per annum and veto and withhold my approval of all of the sum in said item in excess of said sum of $2,000.00 per annum.

In section 1, paragraph (a), I veto the item: For cattle barns, $20,000.00." In section 1, paragraph (a), I veto the item: for Boy's State Fair School, $5,000.00."

"For construction of a sanitary kitchen and toilets

In section 1, paragraph (a), I veto the item: houses, $10,000.00."

In section 1, paragraph (a), I veto the item: $5,000.00."

"For construction of permanent and sanitary eating

"For reconstructing seating capacity of coliseum, In section 1, paragraph (a), I veto the item: "For constructing free grand stand, $20,000.00." In section 1, paragraph (1), I veto the item: "To the Illinois State Academy of Science, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, to be used as follows: Printing, $750.00 per annum; postage, $300.00 per annum; traveling expenses of speakers, $200.00 per annum; clerical help, $600.00 per annum; contingent fund.$150.00 per annum; total, $2,000.00 per annum."

Respectfully submitted,

E. F. DUNNE, Governor.

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