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Public Boards. preserve or apply the same for the purposes herein stated. They shall provide a room in the capitol for the safe keeping and arrangement of the records and collections of this commission and the North Dakota historical society when co-operating with it.

§ 164. Board, of whom composed. The governor, secretary of state and state auditor are constituted a board of trustees of public property, and such board shall have charge and control of the capitol, the executive mansion and the park and public grounds connected therewith.

§ 155. Board to report estimates to legislative assembly. Such board shall, at the opening of each session of the legislative assembly, report to it an estimate of the appropriation necessary to defray the expenses of keeping the capitol building, executive mansion and public grounds in repair, and for fuel and other inci. dental expenses for keeping and maintaining the state offices for the ensuing two years.

§ 166. Board, how created. There is hereby created a department of agriculture for the promotion of stock breeding, agriculture and horticulture, manufactures and domestic arts, which department shall be managed by a board styled “State Board of Agriculture," to consist of one person from each judicial district in the state, who shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and who shall hold his office for two years, commencing on the first Tuesday of April next succeeding his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. All vacancies occuring therein, except when the legislative assembly is in session, shall be filled by the governor, and the person so appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the remainder of the unexpired term and until his successor is appointed and qualified.

§ 157. Use of land conveyed to the state. The real property near the city of Grand Forks heretofore conveyed to the state under the provisions of chapter 24 of the laws of 1890 shall be held by the state for the following purposes and no other, viz: For the purpose of exhibiting thereon under the management of the state board of agriculture, or its successors, annually, the agricultural, stock-breeding, horticultural, mining, mechanical, industrial and other pursuits and resources of the state including exhibits of the arts and educational progress.

§ 158. Annual exhibits. There shall be annually held, under the direction of the state board of agriculture, upon the premises so conveyed, at such time as the board may determine, an exposition for the purposes specified in the last section, and such board is empowered to invite the co-operation of any other state, territory or country in such exposition.