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APPROPRIATIONS 10


the appropriation of the federal government made under the so-called Lever Act for such years to the State of North Dakota, to be used by the department of agricultural extension of the North Da kota Agricultural College, in providing for and conducting cooperative extension work with the United States Department of Agriculture; the establishment and carrying on of agricultural demonstrations on the farm and in the home; the conducting of agricultural extension schools and meetings; the promotion of agricultural work and contests among boys and girls; and such other agricultural extension work as may be required, and in the publication of bulletins and circulars of information for the farm and home. Approved, March

2, 1915.

CHAPTER 6. [S. B. No. 175—~Rowe.]

AID G.A. R.—APROPRIATION. AN ACT Providing State Aid for the Department of North Dakota of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Whereas, It is becoming increasingly difficult for the members of the splendid organization of Civil War veterans, known as the Grand Army of the Republic, to maintain the Department of North Dakota of the G. A. R., owing to the fact that their number is decreasing each year; and whereas, the people of North Dakota honor and revere the men who so heroically fought the battles of the Civil War and saved the Union, Therefore, be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§1. The board of trustees of the Soldiers’ Home shall on the first Monday in April in 1915, and on the first Monday in April each year thereafter, pay to the assistant quarter-master general of the Department of North Dakota of the Grand Army of the Republic, out of the interest and income fund of the Soldiers’ Home, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) which shall be used to help maintain the organization of Civil War veterans known as the Department of North Dakota of the Grand Army of the Republic.

§ 2.The money shall be expended for the department for such

purpose as the department commander, the assistant adjutant gen eral and the chairman of the board of trustees of the Soldiers’ Home shall determine, and payment shall be made on vouchers ap proved by them. Should the Department of North Dakota surrender its § 3. charter or become disbanded by any cause, all money remaining in the hands of the quarter-master general, acquired under the pro visions of this bill, shall be returned to the accounting officer of the Soldiers’ Home, and credited to the interest and income fund from which originally drawn.

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