of said meeting; those in the second group shall hold office for two years from date of said meeting; those in the third group shall hold office for three years from the date of said meeting; those in the fourth group shall hold office for four years from the date of said meeting. The appointive term of office under this act shall be four years after the determination of the term by lot as herein provided. The members of the board of agriculture and the officers of said board shall hold their offices for four years and until their successors shall be appointed or elected and qualified unless removed for cause. Sec. 599. Officers of board-compensation. The officers of the board shall be as follows: president, vice-president, secretary, assistant secretary, and treasurer, who shall be elected by the corporate and ex officio members of the board at annual meeting, on the first Tuesday in January, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the term of four years and quadrennially thereafter. The secretary shall be a practical farmer and well versed in agricultural science. The secretary, assistant secretary and treasurer shall not be members of the board, and their compensation shall be fixed by the board, at not to exceed three thousand dollars for the secretary, twenty-five hundred dollars for the assistant secretary, and one hundred dollars for the treasurer, said salaries to be paid annually in monthly installments, including necessary traveling expenses in the discharge of official duties. The treasurer shall file with the secretary of the state board of agriculture a bond equal to the amount of the biennial appropriation to the state board of agriculture, which said bond shall be approved by said board. Sec. 600. Annual meetings of board, held when and where. Annual meetings of the board, for the election of officers, hearing reports of officers and committees, and the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the board, shall be held in the office of the secretary of the board of agriculture on the first Tuesday in January of each year, or the first day thereafter that it be possible for the board to convene. The office of the secretary shall be located in the agricultural building of the college of agriculture at Columbia, Missouri: Provided, however, the said office and any or all other offices of the said state board of agriculture may on proclamation of the governor be removed to the permanent seat of government: Provided further, that a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. It shall be the duty of the secretary to notify all members of the board of the time and place of regular or called meetings at least five days before the meeting is held. Called meetings of the board may be held when deemed necessary, at such time and place as may be designated by the president: Provided, that if the office of said board be removed to Jefferson City it shall be provided with suitable offices at the expense of the state. Sec. 604. Printing and distribution of yearbook. The secretary of the board shall issue annually an agricultural yearbook in as many copies as may, in the judgment of the board, be required for advantageous distribution to public libraries, public school libraries in the state, to state officers and members of the general assembly, to local agricultural societies and farmers' institutes and schools teaching agriculture. Sec. 604a. Inconsistent acts repealed. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 22, 1915. [S. B. 411.] AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, DAIRYING, POULTRY AND APIARIES: State Veterinarian-Pay for Diseased Cattle Slaughtered-Salaries of Veterinarian, Deputies and Inspectors to be Fixed by Board of Agriculture. AN ACT to repeal sections 714 and 726, article 9, chapter 4, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, entitled "State veterinarian" and to enact two new sections in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 714 and 726, with an emergency clause. SECTION 1. Appraisement may be made, how- SECTION Salaries of veterinarian and deputies. Emergency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Appraisement may be made, how-stock may be killed, when claim may be paid, how. That sections 714 and 726, article 9, chapter 4, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, be and the same are hereby repealed and the following two new sections enacted in lieu thereof: Sec. 714. Whenever a county. court or a court of criminal correction, or other court mentioned in section 712, in session, shall find from the evidence presented by any citizen of this state, as provided for in section 713 of this article, that said citizen is the proprietor of any animal affected with glanders, maladie du coit, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, rinderpest, tuberculosis or contagious foot and mouth disease, and that said animal is in quarantine under this article, and that said animal became so diseased accidentally, and not through any inhuman or gross and wilful neglect or scheming on the part of said proprietor; that said diseased stock was not already diseased when it came in possession of said proprietor, and that said diseased stock did not come already affected with said disease from another state or from any territory or from any other country; that said diseased stock had not been exposed outside of Missouri three months prior to its importation in this state to any of the said contagious or infectious diseases, it shall be the duty of the said court to appoint three disinterested parties, who shall be stockowners, to go and appraise said diseased and quarantined stock; said appraisers shall proceed to the locality where said quarantined stock shall be, and there make an appraisement, taking into consideration the condition of said stock, also the disease with which it is affected, in determining its value, and immediately report the same, in writing, to said court. The amount paid on any appraisement of any non-registered animal for any disease for which indemnity may be paid under this section, shall not exceed forty dollars for each animal, and the appraisement for any registered, pure-bred animal, shall not exceed two hundred dollars for each animal. Except in cases of cattle quarantined on account of tuberculosis and coming under section 715, the sheriff shall accompany said appraisers, and shall, after appraisement, kill said stock and order the same burned or buried by the proprietor, and he shall embody a description of said animals with the report of the appraiser to said court. Said court, upon receipt of such appraisement, shall report the same to the governor, and the governor shall endorse thereon his order to the state auditor for the payment of the same; thereupon the state auditor shall issue his warrant for the same on the state treasurer. (R. S. 1899, sec. 10549, amended, laws 1909, p. 899.) Sec. 726. Salaries of veterinarian and deputies.-The state veterinarian, deputy state veterinarians and live stock inspectors, shall receive salaries fixed by the state board of agriculture and necessary traveling expenses in the discharge of official duties, payable out of the funds provided for the maintenance of the veterinary service. The state veterinarian, deputies and live stock inspectors shall each render an itemized account to the said board of agriculture, of all the traveling and incidental expenses incurred in working under this law. Said account or accounts shall be audited, and if found correct, shall be allowed as is now or may hereafter be provided by law. Sec. 2. Emergency.-There being no law in existence providing reasonable indemnity for diseased domestic animals creates an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution, therefore this act shall take effect immediately upon approval by the gover nor. Approved March 24, 1915. [H. B. 624.] ANIMALS: Animals Restrained From Running at Large. AN ACT to amend article 5 of chapter 6, of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for 1909, by adding a new section to be known as section 782a and providing that irregularities in the casting up of the returns of stock law elections shall not invalidate the adoption of said law in any county where the records of the county court show a majority of votes cast at said election were in favor of adoption of the stock law and more than fifteen years have elapsed and the adoption of said law has not been declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction. SECTION 1. Amending article 5, chapter 6, R. S. SECTION 782a. Stock law adopted-irregularities in casting up returns not to invalidate in certain instances. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Amending article 5, chapter 6, R. S. 1909, by adding a new section thereto.-Article 5 chapter 6 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for 1909 is amended by adding thereto the following section to be known as section 782a. Sec. 782a. Stock law adopted-irregularities in casting up returns not to invalidate in certain instances. In any county in which the record[s] of the county court show that an election has been held more than fifteen years prior to the passage of this act, for the adoption of the stock law and show that a majority of the qualified voters voting at said election voted for the adoption of said law restraining animals of the species of horse, mule, ass, cattle, sheep and goats from running at large and no court of competent jurisdiction in the state has declared by judicial decision. that said stock law has not been regularly adopted in said county the same shall be presumed to have been regularly adopted [and] is hereby declared to be in force. Approved March 22, 1915. [S. B. 275.] ATTORNEYS AT LAW: Defining the "Practice of the Law" and "Law Business"-Prohibiting the Doing Thereof for Valuable Consideration by Persons not Licensed as Attorneys. AN ACT to define the practice of the law and law business, to prohibit the doing thereof for a valuable consideration by persons not licensed as attorneys, by associations or by corporations and to provide penalties and remedies for the violation thereof. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Terms "Practice of the law" and "law business" defined. The "practice of the law" is hereby defined to be and is the appearance as an advocate in a representative capacity or the drawing of papers, pleadings or documents or the performance of any act in such capacity in connection with proceedings pending or prospective before any court of record, commissioner, referee or any body, board, committee or commission constituted by law or having authority to settle controversies. The "law business" is hereby defined to be and is the advising or counseling for a valuable consideration of any person, firm, association or corporation as to any secular law or the drawing or the procuring of or assisting in the drawing for a valuable consideration of any paper, document or instrument affecting or relating to secular rights or the doing of any act for a valuable consideration in a representative capacity, obtaining or tending to obtain or securing or tending to secure for any person, firm, association or corporation any property or property rights whatsoever. Sec. 2. Who shall engage in the "practice of law" or do "law business" penalty. No person shall engage in the "practice of law" or do "law business," as defined in section 1 hereof, or both, unless he shall have been duly licensed therefor and while his license therefor is in full force and effect, nor shall any association or corporation engage in the "practice of the law" or do "law business" as defined in section 1 hereof, or both. Any person, association or corporation who shall violate the foregoing prohibition of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution and shall be subject to be sued for treble the amount which shall have been paid him or it for any service rendered in violation hereof by the person, firm, association or corporation paying the same within two years from the date the same shall have been paid and if within said time such person, firm, association or corporation shall neglect and fail to sue for or recover such treble amount, then the state of Missouri shall have the right to and shall sue for such treble amount and recover the same and upon the recovery thereof such treble amount shall be paid into the treasury of the state of Missouri. It is hereby made the duty of the attorney-general of the state of Missouri or the prosecuting attorney of any county or city in which service of process may be had upon the person, firm, association or corporation liable hereunder, to institute all suits necessary for the recovery by the state of Missouri of such amounts in the name and on behalf of the state. Sec. 3. Fees or compensation received in "practice of law" or in doing "law business" not to be divided with whom penalty. It shall be unlawful for any licensed attorney in the state of Missouri to divide any fees or compensation received by him in the "practice of law" or in doing "law business" with any person not a licensed attorney or any firm not wholly composed of licensed attorneys, or any association or corporation, and any person, firm, association or corporation violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, which fine shall be paid into the treasury of the state of Missouri. Any person, firm, association or corporation who shall violate the foregoing prohibition of this section shall be subject to be sued for treble the amount of any and all sums of money paid in violation hereof by the person, persons, association or corporation paying the fees or compensation which shall have been so divided and if such person, persons, association or corporation shall not sue for or recover the same within two years from the date of such division of fees or compensation, the state of Missouri shall have the right to and shall sue for and recover said treble amount, which shall, upon recovery be paid into the treasury of the state of Missouri. It is hereby made the duty of the attorney-general of the state of Mis |