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[H. B. 620.]

APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriation to Encourage Poultry Industry-Aid to Regularly Organized Poultry Associations.

AN ACT to encourage the poultry industry of the state and appropriating money therefor.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Who entitled to aid-amount of, etc.-That duly organized poultry associations or clubs within the state of Missouri which have a duly elected president, secretary, treasurer, executive board, and members, shall be entitled to receive not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars from the state of Missouri to apply on the total amount of premiums paid by such annual poultry association or club on the exhibits of poultry or eggs shown by farmers and poultry breeders residing within the state of Missouri, after complying with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 2. Aid, how obtained duties of state poultry board.After each annual exhibition held by any Missouri poultry association or club, the president and secretary of such association or club claiming the benefits of any such appropriation, shall file with the secretary of the state poultry board, a sworn statement of the actual amount of cash premium paid at the exhibition of the current season, which must correspond with the public offer of premiums as printed in their premium list. Such statement shall be accompanied by an itemized list of all premiums which are to be paid from such one hundred dollars ($100.00) as claimed, with the names and addresses of each farmer or poultry breeder entitled to same, and a copy of the published premium list, duly verified by the secretary and president of such association or club. The president and secretary of the state poultry board shall examine such statements, and thereupon file them, together with a recommendation that such poultry association or club receive said one. hundred dollars, or as much thereof as their premium list and awards show that they are entitled to, with the auditor of the state of Missouri, and said auditor shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such amount. In as much as secretary of the state poultry board is under bond to the state of Missouri, such moneys shall be paid to him and by him distributed to the various exhibitors who are entitled to receive same. In no case shall the amount paid to any one association or club exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and all such amounts shall be accounted for in the annual report of the state poultry board. In case there is more than one such organization in any county said one hundred dollars shall be equally divided between such associations or clubs as shall have complied with this act.

Sec. 3. Auditor to draw warrants to whom.-The auditor of the state of Missouri is hereby authorized and directed to draw

his warrant upon the state treasurer for the moneys hereinabove or hereafter appropriated in favor of the state poultry board for the benefit of the several Missouri poultry associations or clubs which shall have complied with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 4. Appropriation.-There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue funds of the state, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand [dollars] ($10,000.00) for the biennial period of 1915 and 1916, or so much thereof as may be annually necessary for the use and benefits of such poultry associations and clubs as shall have complied with the provisions of this act, and to be disbursed as herein provided.

Approved March 23, 1915.

[H. B. 435.]

ADMINISTRATION: Collateral Inheritance Tax-Providing for Assessment and Collection of Tax on Lands Due from Unknown Persons or Nonresidents of the State.

AN ACT amending article 14 of chapter 2 Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909 on collateral inheritance tax and providing for the assessment and collection of such tax on lands subject to the same where the person or persons subject to the same are not resident of the state of Missouri, or are unknown.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Amending article 14 of chapter 2, R. S. 1909, by adding four new sections thereto.-That article 14 of chapter 2 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909 on collateral inheritance tax be amended by adding four new sections to be known as sections 331a, 331b, 331c and 331d, such new sections to read as follows:

Sec. 331a. Collection of tax on real estate due from unknown persons or nonresidents how enforced.—If a decedent dies owning real estate in the state of Missouri subject to collateral inheritance tax, as provided in this article, either testate or intestate, and such real estate descend or be devised to a person or persons not resident of the state of Missouri, or to unknown person or persons, and such tax be not paid within one year of the death of such decedent, then the collector of the revenue in the county where such real estate is situate may institute suit for the assessment and collection of such tax against such non-resident or unknown owner or owners thereof by petition in the circuit court of the county where such real estate is situate, and service on such non-resident or unknown owners thereof may be had by publication as provided by law for service on non-resident and unknown persons.

Sec. 331b. Petition to contain what-value of real estate, how fixed-judgment-special lien on real estate. When such suit be instituted the petition shall contain a description of the real estate subject to such collateral inheritance tax, the name or names of the owners thereof if the same be known to the collector of the revenue, and if the name or names of the owner or owners thereof be unknown, then a description of their interest and how derived as is now provided by law in suits against unknown persons, and the collector shall allege the reasonable market value of said real estate in said petition and ask judgment against said nonresident or unknown owner or owners thereof in the sum of five per centum of the reasonable market value of said real estate, with interest on said sum from the date of the death of said decedent owning same at the same rate as now provided by law on delinquent taxes, and for costs of suit: Provided, that upon the trial of said cause that the court shall not be bound by the market value of the real estate as alleged in said petition, but may find the market value thereof in any sum that it may find the same to be reasonably worth, as shown by the evidence offered in the trial of said cause, not exceeding the market value alleged in said petition, and the court, after hearing said cause, shall render judgment against said non-resident or unknown owners of said real estate for a sum equal to five per centum of the reasonable market value thereof, as found upon the hearing of the evidence offered in said cause not exceeding the market value alleged in said petition, together with interest thereon from the date of the death of the decedent owning same at the same rate as now provided by law on delinquent taxes, and for costs of suit, which said judgment shall be a special lien on said real estate.

Sec. 331c. Procedure. The law and procedure as to suits to collect delinquent taxes on real estate and liability for costs shall apply to suits brought under this act, so far as the same may be applicable and save as herein provided; but it shall not be necessary to file any tax bill with the petition in suits brought under this act; nor shall it be necessary to have the real estate appraised or any citation issued by the probate court against the person or persons liable for said tax, either before or after the filing of the petition or trial of such suit.

Sec. 331d. Transfers of real estate subject to tax-liability of non-resident or vendees. If any non-resident or unknown owner or owners of real estate, subject to collateral inheritance tax as provided in this article, sell, convey or transfer his or their interest in said real estate subject to said tax, to non-resident or unknown person or persons, then such non-resident or vendee or vendees shall be liable to suit for the assessment and collection of said collateral inheritance tax in the same manner as provided herein, for a period of five years after the death of the decedent owning said real estate.

Approved March 15, 1915.

[H. B. 81.]

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, DAIRYING, POULTRY AND APIARIES: State Poultry Association.

AN ACT to repeal section number 666, article 5 chapter 4, Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to the state poultry association, and to repeal an act amending and adding to said section 666 enacted in 1913 and found on page 105 of the laws of Missouri, and to enact a new section in lieu thereof to be known as section 666, with an emergency clause.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Officers-qualifications-compensation. That section 666, enacted in 1913, and found on page 105 of the laws of Missouri and which was enacted in lieu of section 666 article 5 chapter 4, Revised Statutes state of Missouri, of 1909, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following new section, to be known and designated as section 666, be enacted in lieu thereof, with an emergency clause. Sec. 666. The officers of the board shall be a president, a vice-president and a secretary and treasurer. The president and vice-president shall be elected by the board at each annual meeting for the term of one year. Said board shall employ from outside its members a secretary and treasurer, who shall serve for a period of two years from the date of his election. The secretary and treasurer of the board shall also fill the position of director of the state poultry experiment station and shall conduct experiments in the interest of the farmers and poultry raisers of this state. He shall be well acquainted with the poultry interests of the state, shall have a practical and scientific knowledge of poultry, and shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties prescribed for him by said board. His compensation shall be determined by the state poultry board but shall not be in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum, payable monthly. The necessary expenses incurred by him in attending meetings of the board, or while traveling under the direction of the board, shall be allowed and paid. The secretary and treasurer shall file with the secretary of state, a bond to be approved by him for the amount of ten thousand dollars. The members of the board shall serve without pay, excepting their necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board shall be allowed.

Sec. 2. Emergency. It being impossible to secure or retain a practical, competent, and scientific man as secretary and director of the state poultry experiment station, who can fill this important position in one of the leading industries of the state at the salary which is now permissible under the law, an emergency exists within the meaning of the Constitution; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 23, 1915.

[S. B. 437.]

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, DAIRYING, POULTRY AND APIARIES: State Board of Agriculture.

AN ACT to repeal sections 597, 598, 599, 600 and 604, article 1, chapter IV of Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, and to enact in lieu thereof new sections to be numbered sections 597, 598, 599, 600 and 604, relating to the state board of agriculture. Providing for: membership, how constituted, their appointment, qualifications and compensation, time for division of corporate members into groups, term of office and for filling vacancies; officers of said board, their election, time of election, term of office, qualifications, compensation; bond of treasurer; annual and special meetings and how called, time and place of meeting; locating office of secretary and removal thereof; defining quorum; preparation, issuance and distribution of annual agricultural yearbook. SECTION

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Repealing certain sections of article 1, chapter 4, R. S. 1909, and enacting certain sections in lieu thereof. That sections 597, 598, 599, 600, 604 article 1, chapter 4, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, entitled, "Agriculture, horticulture, dairying, poultry, and apiaries," be and the same are hereby repealed and new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be numbered sections 597, 598, 599, 600, 604.

Sec. 597. Members of board-appointment-qualifications compensation. The governor, dean of the agricultural college, and state superintendent of public schools shall be ex officio members of the state board of agriculture. The governor shall, on the fourth Tuesday in December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at which time the terms of all the appointive members of said board shall expire, and thereafter as vacancies shall occur, appoint as members of said board one member from each congressional district, but said board shall be so constituted that not more than a majority shall belong to any one political party; and in making his appointments, the governor shall select, as far as practicable, members representing the different agricultural interests of the state. The members of the board shall serve without pay, excepting that necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board and members representing the board on proper official business shall be allowed and paid. Appointments made on account of vacancies occurring because of death, resignation or removal of a member or officer of the board shall be for the unexpired term of such member or officer.

Sec. 598. Members divided into classes-terms of services. At the first meeting of the board appointed under this article, the appointed members shall be divided by lot into four groups: those falling in the first group shall hold office for one year from the date

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