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Public Boards. pay, but shall receive mileage at the rate of ten cents per rila, one way, from their home to the place of meeting of the board, which when certified by the president of the board shall be audited by the state auditor and paid by the state treasurer.

§ 168. Board to make annual reports. The state board of agriculture shall make an annual report to the governor on or before the fifteenth day of November, which report shall contain a full and complete statement of the acts of the board, and the board may append to and publish with its report, such essays upon agriculture, horticulture, manufacturing and the domestic arts, as, in the judgment of the board, the interests of the state require. Such report shall not contain more than five hundred printed pages, and one thousand copies thereof shall be printed and published annually in pamphlet form by the public printer of the state at contract rates.

§ 169. Board, how constituted. The governor, secretary of state, state auditor, attorney general and superintendent of public instruction shall constitute the board of university and school lands. The governor shall be president; the secretary of state, vice president and the superintendent of public instruction, secretary thereof. In the absence of the superintendent of public instruction at any meeting of the board the deputy superintendent of public instruction shall act as secretary, but shall not be entitled to a vote. Such board, when acting as such, must act personally; no member can be represented on such board by any assistant or clerk.

§ 170. Board, powers of. Subject to the provisions of article 9 of the constitution and the provisions of this article, such board shall have the full control of the selecting, appraisement, rental, sale, disposal and management of all school and public lands of the state, including the real property donated to the territory of Dakota under the provisions of chapter 104 of the laws of 1883, except such as has been sold, and the investment of the permanent funds derived from the sale thereof, or from any other source, and shall have power to appoint a competent person to act as the general agent of the board in the performance of all its duties pertaining to the selection, sale, leasing or contracting in any manner allowed by law, and the general control and management of all matters relating to the care and disposition of the public lands of the state, all of whose official acts shall be subject to the approval and supervision of the board. The title of such agent shall be commissioner of university and school lands, and before entering upon his duties as such he shall take the oath prescribed for civil officers and give a bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, with not less than two sureties, to be approved by the board, and recorded in the office of the secretary of state and filed, when recorded, in the office of the state treasurer.

§ 171. Meetings of board. Such board shall meet at the office of the commissioner on the last Thursday of each month, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Special meetings of the board may be held at any time at the written call of the president or any two members of the board. Any three members of the board shall constitute a quorum.

§ 172. Board to invest school funds, how. Such board shall have the power and it is made its duty from time to time to invest