ion will not be needed for meeting such obligations and said amount shall thereupon be paid into the general funds in the treasury of the state to be held and disposed of as other funds not specifically appropriated by law. The annual appropriation now provided for by law in favor of the Indiana state board of agriculture in the amount of $10,000.00 is hereby appropriated for the benefit of the Indiana board of agriculture as herein created for the years 1921, 1922 and 1923 and said appropriation for subsequent years is hereby repealed.

3174k. Annual report-State board of accounts.-11. The board shall file annually with the governor of the state a classified and detailed report of all receipts and expenditures of said board, which report shall be completed to the end of the fiscal year of said board, which date is hereby determined to be December 31st. of each year. It shall place this report in the hands of the auditor of state for examination on or before the tenth (10th) day of January of the year next preceding the time covered by said report. Said report shall give a summary of the activities and work done by the board during the year and all books and accounts shall be subject to investigation by the state board of accounts.

31741. Liens by municipal corporations prohibited.-12. No municipal corporation or other authority shall have the right to enter upon any of the lands under the control of said board, for the purpose of laying out or opening any street, alley, or highway on or of such lands, or for the construction of any drain, sewer, or other improvement without first obtaining the written consent of said board [,] nor shall any municipal corporation or other authority have the right to create any lien against any of said real estate or any obligation against said board for any drains, sewer, or other public improvement except for paving in the vicinity thereof without first obtaining the written consent of such board.

Section 13 of the above act provides that the act be in force and effect from and after its passage.

[Acts 1905, p. 11. In force February 17, 1905.]

3187. May borrow money, uses.

The above sections, 3187 to 3190 inclusive, Revision of 1914 are repealed by section 5, Acts 1919, p. 11, in force February 13, 1919. The title to the act of 1919, p. 11, does not suggest the repeal.

Preamble.

[Acts 1919, p. 11. In force February 13, 1919.]

WHEREAS, The Indiana state board of agriculture is indebted in the sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000), which debt was created under the provisions of an act of the general assembly approved February 17, 1905, being chapter 18 of the session law of 1905, and which debt represents a part of the unpaid purchase money for the lands known as the state fair grounds, situated north of and near to the city of Indianapolis, in Marion county, Indiana, and the remainder of such indebtedness was created by the erection of buildings and improvements on the state fair grounds, together with certain unpaid street and sewer assessments, amounting in the aggregate to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000); and WHEREAS, The buildings on the Indiana state fair grounds, which were erected in the year 1892, and are wooden and frame structures, are now in an advanced stage of deterioration and are moreover wholly inadequate and unfit to house and protect the exhibit of the Indiana state fair; and

WHEREAS, Funds must be obtained and supplied with which to erect new, sufficient and adequate buildings for the use of the Indiana state fair, and to construct and install a sewer system within the grounds, and to supply a heating plant for the coliseum and to build streets and walks through a park to be opened to public use, all of which are imperative to enable the Indiana state board of agriculture to fully perform and discharge the duties imposed on it by law; and

WHEREAS, The Indiana state board of agriculture is unable to liquidate its existing indebtedness or to make the improvements or install the equipment hereinbefore enumerated; now, therefore,

3190a. Mortgage authorized.-1. The Indiana state board of agriculture be and is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money at such times and in such amounts as may be necessary for the payment of existing indebtedness now outstanding for a part of the real property of the said state board of agriculture, known as the state fair grounds, near Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, for the payment of certain lawfully assessed, unpaid and outstanding street and sewer assessments; and for payments of the indebtedness incurred in erecting buildings and improvements on the Indiana state fair grounds; and such other sums as may be necessary from time to time for the purpose of erecting and maintaining proper and necessary buildings and improvements to enable the Indiana state board of agriculture at all times to carry out, perform and discharge its duties in giving state fairs and for other purposes; and for the security and

repayment of such loans, with interest, to mortgage its said real property, consisting of about two hundred and fourteen (214) acres, situated near to the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, and commonly known as the state fair grounds, together with the improvements now and hereafter placed thereon. And the said board is au thorized and empowered to apply the moneys so borrowed to the payment of any such obligations unpaid and outstanding; and to take said indebtedness by whomsoever held and to cancel all notes, mortgages and obligations so outstanding; and to use the remainder of any sum so borrowed, and other sums hereafter borrowed from time to time, in erecting new buildings on said fair grounds and in making and maintaining improvements and repairs. But the aggregate indebtedness occasioned by such loans together with all other indebtedness of said board shall not exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) at any one time. And the rate of interest shall not exceed six per cent (6%) per annum.

3190b. Approval of loan, state board of finance.-2. Any and all notes, bonds or mortgages given, issued or executed by said Indiana state board of agriculture shall be authorized by a two-thirds vote of said board and signed by its president and secretary and attested by its corporate seal, and such action shall be approved by the state board of finance.

3190c. Bonds authorized.-3. The said board shall have power from time to time to mortgage all or so much and such parts of said described Indiana state fair grounds as its board of directors may determine in manner and form as described in section 1. To secure such loans and if deemed best by such board, then the Indiana state board of agriculture is hereby given power and authority under this act to issue bonds as well as notes in making any loan or loans in such denominations and amounts as the said board may from time to time determine, with interest coupons attached in the usual manner; such notes and bonds to be made payable at such times and on such terms and conditions as may to the board seem best; and to secure such bonds as well as notes by a mortgage or mortgages upon all or any part of said lands. Any and all notes and bonds so authorized bearing such rates of interest as may be determined not exceeding six per centum (6%) per annum, and secured as aforesaid, the board may sell from time to time at such prices as a two-thirds vote of the members of said board may authorize and direct at not less than par. It is hereby made the duty of the board to submit plans, specifications and bids to the state finance board, before signing contracts for the construction of buildings and improvements.

3190d. Priority of bonds.-4. In case bonds are issued in series. or otherwise from time to time and secured as aforesaid, no bond shall have any priority by reason of the time or order of sale over any other bond of the series secured by any such mortgage; but each bond secured by any mortgage shall be secured equally and ratably by such security.

Section 6 provides that the above act be in force and effect from and after its passage.

3190e. Repeal.-5. An act entitled "An act for the relief of the Indiana state board of agriculture, authorizing it to borrow money to pay off its existing indebtedness and for other purposes, and to repeal so much of an act concerning the state board of agriculture, approved April 14, 1881, as is now in force, being sections 2796, 2797 and 2798, in Burns' annotated Indiana statutes of the revision of 1901, and other matters properly connected therewith; and providing for an emergency," approved February 17, 1905, and all other laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This section repeals sections 3187, 3188, 3189 and 3190 Revision of 1914. The title does not suggest the repeal.

Section 6 provides that the above act be in force and effect from and after its passage.

[Acts 1917, p. 671. Law without the signature of the Governor.] 3194a. Corn-growers' association, appropriation.-1. That in counties where no agricultural fair or association exists, or is not in active operation, the county councils and the boards of county commissioners are hereby authorized and required to annually appropriate and pay to any county corn-growers' association or horticultural society a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) which sum shall be used in the payment of premiums. Any such county corngrowers' association or horticultural society to be eligible to receive such sum shall have at least fifty (50) members in the local association or society and at least ten (10) members in the state association or society.

3195. Formation.

Under this section and sections 3196, 3211, an agricultural society has implied authority to contract for anything furthering the purposes of its organization. Lake County Agr. Soc. v. Verplank, App. -, 124 N. E. 495.