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§§ 147-153

§ 147. Establishment of service. There is hereby estab- lished in this state a weather and crop service, co-operating with the weather bureau of the United States, for the purpose of selecting crop statistics and meteorological data, and more widely disseminating the weather forecast and storm and frost warning, and to promote a general knowledge of meteorological science and the climatology of the state.

§ 148. Central station at seat of government. The cen: tral station of said weather and crop service shall be at the seat of government under the charge of a director, such director to be an official of the United States weather bureau, who may be designated for that purpose by the chief of the weather bureau at Washington, D. C.

'''§ 149. Director to establish volunteer stations. Monthly reports.''' Said director shall establish such volunteer stations throughout the state as he may deem advisable, and shall appoint observers thereat. He shall supervise such volunteer stations, receive reports therefrom of meteorological events and crop conditions, tabulate the same for permanent record, and issue for free distribution a weekly weather crop bulletin during the seasons from April first to October fifteenth, and he shall also edit and cause to be published for free distribution a monthly weather report, containing meteorological and agricultural matter of public interest and educational value; provided, however, that not more than five hundred copies of said report shall be published each month.

§ 150. Annual report to governor. Said director shall also compile an annual report, addressed to the governor, to be printed and bound in such numbers as the commissioners of public printing may direct; such reports to contain a complete review and summary of the results of the year's labors and observations.

§ 151. Appropriation, how expended. There is appropriated out of funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, or as much thereof as may be necessary, the sum of five hundred dollars annually for expenses of such weather and crop service. Such appropriation to be expended upon the order of the director, subject to the approval of the governor.

§ 152. How constituted. The governor, auditor, secretary of state, commissioner of agriculture, William H. Moorhead and the president of the North Dakota historical society shall constitute an historical commission for the state of North Dakota.

§ 163. Duties. It shall be the duty of this commission to collect and preserve the records and relics pertaining to the early history, early settlement and development of North Dakota. It shall collect, arrange and preserve a library of books, pamphlets, papers, manuscripts, photographs, paintings, sketches, cabinets of minerals, Indian archeological and other curiosities and material illustrative of the civil, political, religious, literary and natural history of the state. It may receive bequests for the purposes of this act, and shall expend the same for the purchase of historical, genealogical and other books and collections suitable for this purpose, and may receive contributions from societies, corporations and individuals of books, pamphlets, papers and other matter herein contemplated, and shall faithfully