PASSED AT THE SESSION OF THE Forty-Eighth General Assembly WHICH CONVENED AT THE CITY OF JEFFERSON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1915 [BY AUTHORITY] Compiled by CORNELIUS ROACH, Secretary of State, in compliance with section 8067, R. S. 1909 LAWS OF MISSOURI. [H. B. 1070.] APPROPRIATIONS: Contingent and Incidental Expenses for Years 1915 and 1916. AN act to appropriate money for the support of the state government, the payment of contingent and the incidental expenses of the state departments, public printing and for the payment of certain other demands against the state for which no appropriation has heretofore been made, for the years 1915 and 1916, appropriating money for the construction and improvement of public roads, providing an emergency appropriation to be used in case of destruction by fire, lightning, windstorm or tornado, and providing certain restrictions for said act, with an emergency clause. SECTION Appropriations for 1915 and 1916, SECTION Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Appropriations for 1915 and 1916, contingent and incidental expenses.-There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the revenue fund, unless otherwise pro- vided for, for the contingent expenses and other incidental ex- penses of the several departments of the state government, and for experimental and educational purposes, and for reliefs in certain cases and for an emergency appropriation, for the years 1915 and 1916, commencing on the first day of January, 1915, and ending on Sec. 2. Adjutant-general's office. For the contingent expenses of the office of the adjutant-general including postage, expressage, telephoning and telegraphing, rewriting war records. and administering the confederate soldiers' pension fund and other miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand dollars ($13,000.00). Sec. 3. Agricultural extension (Smith-Lever act).—There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, chargeable to the general revenue fund, the sum of sixty-five thousand two hundred sixty-eight dollars ($65,268.00), payable to the Missouri college of agriculture in like manner as other appropriations for said college. Said money to be spent by said college of agriculture for extension work in agriculture among the farmers of Missouri, upon plans approved by the United States department of agriculture and in compliance with an act of the United States government, known as the Smith-Lever agricultural extension act. Sec. 4. Missouri agricultural experiment station. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury chargeable to the general revenue fund the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) for the use of the Missouri agricultural experiment station, to be paid in like manner as the appropriations for the state college of agriculture, and to be expended for agricultural investigations in the feeding and breeding of live stock, the dairy industry, the cultivation of farm crop and soil fertility, improved methods of fruit growing and spraying, plant diseases and in other investigation tending to further the agricultural interests of the state. Sec. 5. Board of agriculture. There is hereby appropriated out of the state revenue fund, to the state board of agriculture, the sum of one hundred forty-three thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and thirty cents ($143,530.30), as follows: Farmers' institutes, including women's institutes.. $25,000.00 Farmers' week ... 1,000.00 All moneys appropriated in the preceding section shall be used for the purposes enumerated; and any liability or debt incurred in excess of the amount herein appropriated shall be chargeable to the person or persons authorizing the same. |