The said board shall appoint an auditing committee to consist of three members, which shall be charged with the duty of auditing the accounts of the department, and shall report thereon to the board at a regular meeting of said board.

The board shall have control of all the funds of the department and none of said funds shall be paid out except upon appropriations made at a regular meeting of the board.

SEC. 6. The members of the board shall receive no compensation, but shall be paid their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

SEC. 7. There shall be a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, whose term of office shall be four years, and who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the State, and shall be vested with such powers and duties as are herein set out, and such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 8. He may be elected at the general election of the state officers, to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1909, and every four years thereafter. He shall be voted for on the same ballot as the other state officers are voted for, and any vacancy in the office of the commissioner of agriculture and immigration shall be filled by appointment by the governor, such appointee to hold office until the next general election for this office and the qualification of a successor.

SEC. 9. The salary of the said commissioner shall be two thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and he shall give bond with good security, to be approved by the attorney-general, in the penalty of thirty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office as they are, or may be from time to time, prescribed by law.

SEC. 11. The commissioner of agriculture shall see to the proper execution of the laws relating to the subject of his department, and he shall investigate and promote such subjects relating to the improvement of agriculture, the beneficial use of commercial fertilizer and compost, and for the inducement of immigration and capital, and he shall be especially charged with the supervision of the trade in commercial fertilizers as will best protect the interests of the farmers with the enforcement of the laws which are or may be enacted in this State concerning the sale of commercial fertilizers, seed, and food products, with authority to make regulations governing the same, subject to the approval of the board, and publish them in bulletins.

He shall be charged with the inducement of capital and immigration by the dissemination of information relative to the advantages of soil, climate, healthfulness, and markets of this State and to resources and industrial opportunities offered in the State, and he shall prepare a handbook giving the resources of the several counties. of the State, including the varieties of soil and products and such other information as he may deem useful, and also with investigation adapted to promote the improvement of the milch and beef cattle and other stock. He shall investigate and report upon the conditions of timber in this State and recommend such legislation as will promote its growth and protection. He shall report on the extent and

kinds of minerals in the State, and as far as possible ascertain their value.

SEC. 12. He shall have charge of the museum of the department of agriculture and immigration, and cause to be collected, preserved, and exhibited therein specimens of the agricultural and horticultural products, minerals, flora, and fauna of this State and its woods, and shall have such other powers and duties as are prescribed by law.

SEC. 13. He shall hold or cause to be held for the benefit of the agricultural community farmers' institutes from time to time in each congressional district, the said institutes to be conducted under the joint direction of himself and the member of the board of agriculture and immigration from the district in which the same shall be held, and he shall publish and distribute such papers, read or made at these institutes, as in his judgment or in the judgment of the board of agriculture and immigration, may be of value to the farmers' interests of the State. The expense of said institute and such publications shall be paid out of the funds of the department as other expenditures are made.

SEC. 14. The commissioner shall annually submit to the board a full report covering the operations of the department for the year, including a detailed financial statement of all its receipts and expenditures made under its direction and giving such other information on practical agricultural subjects as shall be helpful to the farmers of the State, said report to be embraced in the annual report of the board to the governor, which report shall be designated and printed as "the annual report of the commissioner and of the board of agriculture and immigration."

SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, That an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled "An act to further define the powers and enlarge the duties of the commissioner of agriculture," and an act approved March 5, 1888, entitled "An act to provide for a commissioner of agriculture of Virginia and making an appropriation therefor," and also sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, and 1790 of the Code of Virginia be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, February 25, 1908.

WASHINGTON.

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

Act of 1875 (an act to create a board of immigration commissioners and for other purposes).—The legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington enacted a law in 1875 creating a board of immigration consisting of three commissioners, who should serve without compensation. It provided for the publication of a pamphlet setting forth the resources of Washington for "gratuitous and judicious distribution." An appropriation of $150 for incidental expenses was

made.

Act of 1877 (an act to provide for the appointment of immigration agents).-An act of 1877 authorized the commissioners to appoint immigration agents for service, without compensation, at any desirable points in the United States.

Law of 1881 (an act to abolish the board of immigration commissioners). The assembly in session in 1881 repealed the law of 1875 creating a board of immigration commissioners.

Law of 1895 (an act creating a bureau of statistics, labor, agriculture, and immigration).-In 1895 the secretary of state of Washington was made ex officio commissioner of statistics" relating to all departments of labor in the State such as hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for support, the probable chances of all being employed, the operation of labor-saving machinery in relation to hand labor, etc." "Such statistics shall be classified under agriculture, immigration, industries, mining, skilled and unskilled labor, cash capital invested, means of production, condition of employed and unemployed, sanitary conditions, standard and cost of living, facts about non-Caucasian elements, effect of convict labor on labor conditions, and other auxiliary information."

It shall be the duty of state and county officers to facilitate the work of the commissioner in every practicable way.

It shall be the duty of the commissioner to prepare for publication a comprehensive report of the natural and artificial resources of Washington, and to transmit copies of such report to intending immigrants upon request.

The commissioner shall have power to send for persons and papers, to examine witnesses under oath, to enter all places and works of labor, and to require persons in authority in business institutions to furnish him any statistics or information pertaining to his law ful duties. Names of persons, firms, or corporations supplying information shall not be disclosed, and any information pertaining to a person's affairs shall be deemed confidential.

A deputy commissioner shall be appointed at an annual salary of $1,200, and an immigration agent shall be employed to represent the bureau in "such city as the commissioner may designate.

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

ACT OF 1875.

[Laws of Washington, 1875, p. 104.]

AN ACT To create a board of immigration commissioners, and providing for the printing and distribution of certain pamphlets.

Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington:

SECTION 1. That the governor is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the consent of the council, a board, consisting of three commissioners of immigration for the Territory of Washington: Provided, That the said commissioners shall receive no compensation from the Territory, and the Territory shall not be responsible for any debt or liability created by them.

SEC. 2. That John M. Murphy is hereby employed to print five thousand copies of the pamphlet of the Washington Immigration Society, by Mrs. A. H. II. Stewart, secretary of the society, setting for the resources of the Territory of Washington, for gratuitous and judicious distribution as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 3. On the delivery to the board of immigration of said five thousand copies of said pamphlets, on the written certificate of said commissioners, the territorial auditor shall draw his warrant on the territorial treasurer for the sum of five hundred and fifty-seven dollars, and the said treasurer shall pay the same out of any money not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 4. The sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per annum is hereby appropriated, out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, to pay office rent, postage, and other incidental expenses of said board of immigration commissioners, and the territorial auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for said sum on the written order of said commissioners.

SEC. 5. Fifteen hundred copies of said pamphlet shall be sent to the Walla Walla Immigration Society for distribution; five hundred copies to the Clark County board of immigration. The commissioners of immigration shall furnish fifty copies to each county auditor for gratuitous distribution, and the remainder shall be distributed by said commissioners.

SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, November 12, 1875.

ACT OF 1877.

[Laws of Washington, 1877, p. 301.]

AN ACT To provide for the appointment of immigration agents.

Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington:

SECTION 1. That the commissioners of immigration for the Territory of Washington may appoint immigration agents in the several counties of this Territory, and in any State or Territory, who shall

act as such agents during the pleasure of such commissioners: Provided, That such agents shall receive no compensation directly or indirectly from the Territory.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its approval by the governor.

Approved, November 9, 1877.

ACT OF 1881.

[Laws of Washington, 1881, p. 16.]

AN ACT To repeal an act entitled "An act to create a board of immigration commissioners and provide for the printing and distribution of certain pamphlets," approved November 12, 1875.

Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington:

SECTION 1. That an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington, entitled "An act to create a board of immigration commissioners and provide for the printing and distribution of certain pamphlets," approved November 12, 1875, and all acts amendatory thereto, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage and approval by the governor.

Approved, October 20, 1881.

ACT OF 1895.

[Laws of Washington, 1895, ch. 85, H. B. No. 184, p. 167.]

AN ACT To establish a bureau of statistics, labor, agriculture, and immigration, and making an appropriation therefor.

Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. The secretary of this State shall be ex officio commissioner of statistics, and is hereby authorized and directed to establish within his office, and under his immediate supervision, a bureau to be known as the bureau of statistics, agriculture, and immigration. SEC. 2. The duties of the commissioner shall be to collect, assort, systemize, and present in biennial reports to the legislature statistical details relating to all departments of labor within the State, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the probable chances of all being employed, the operation of labor-saving machinery in relation to hand labor, etc. Said statistics shall be classified as follows:

1. Of agriculture.

2. Of immigration.

3. Of mechanical and manufacturing industries.

4. Of mining.

5. Of transportation on land and water.

6. Of clerical and all other skilled and unskilled labor not enumerated above.