sued, in all courts or places; but this State shall never be liable for any debt or contract of said board.
§ 13. "FAIR" CONSTRUED.] Wherever the word "fair" occurs in this act, it shall be held to mean a bona fide exhibition of the four principal classes of live stock together with agricultural and horticultural products and mechanical arts.
§ 14. COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS.] The officers and members of the board, except the secretary and treasurer, shall serve without pay; but shall receive mileage at the rate of ten (10) cents per mile, one way from their home to the place of meeting of the society, which shall be paid by the State Treasurer, upon a warrant issued and certified by the President of the State Board of Agriculture.
§ 15. ANNUAL REPORTS.] The State Board of Agriculture shall make an annual report to the Governor of the State of North Dakota. Said report shall contain a full and complete review of the work performed by said board, and the acts and doings thereof, and no other annual report shall be made by said board. The said annual report shall be delivered to the Governor on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year.
§ 16. REPORTS TO BE PUBLISHED-APPROPRIATION.] Said State Board of Agriculture shall append to and publish with its report, the annual report of the State Entomologist, and such other reports and essays connected with agriculture, horticulture, manufactures or the domestic arts, as, in the judgment of the said board, the interests of the State require; said annual report and appended essays not to exceed 700 printed pages, and 1,000 copies of said report shall be printed and published annually in pamphlet form by the public printer of the State at the contract rates; and a sufficient amount of money is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury to pay for publishing the same.
§ 17. REPEAL.] This act shall repeal and take the place of Article 3, Political Code-Compiled Laws of 1887-entitled "Department of Agriculture," as amended by Chapter 7 of the Session Laws of 1889; and all other acts and parts of acts at variance or in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Approved March 3, 1890.
