SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1045

fix their compensation, and the salaries of such employees shall be
payable out of such funds as are now or may hereafter be appro-
priated to said Board for the general purposes thereof or for specific
purposes, as designated from time to time. The executive officers
and heads of departments shall be appointed by a majority of the
whole Board, and shall not be removed from office except by a
majority vote of the whole Board, when in their judgment the good
of the work demands. The Board may also delegate the power to
employ and discharge employees to executive officers or heads of
departments. The Board shall establish an office or offices for the
transaction of its business at such place or places as to it shall seem
most expedient, and is empowered to do any and all things necessary
or proper for the performance of its duties. The Board shall at all
times maintain one Vice-Presidency whose incumbent shall have the
primary duty of coordinating the COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE,
Experiment Station, the Extension Service and the Service and
Control Programs of the University of Maryland and who shall
serve ex-officio as a member of the Maryland Agricultural Commis-
sion. There shall be a standing Committee on Agricultural Activi-
ties; the membership of this Committee shall consist of the three
Board members appointed from the lists submitted by the Maryland
Agricultural Commissions , TWO OF WHOM SHALL BE NOMI-
NATED AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERMS OF THOSE
MEMBERS APPOINTED TO REPRESENT THE GRANGE AND
THE FARM BUREAU ON THE BOARD OF REGENTS—STATE
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE; the Committee members shall be ex-
officio members of the Maryland Agricultural Commission. , FOR
SUCH PERIOD OF TIME AS THEY ARE STILL SERVING AS
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS—STATE BOARD
OF AGRICULTURE. The entire State Board of Agriculture is re-
quired to meet with the Maryland Agricultural Commission as often
as is deemed necessary but not less than once each year at one of the
said Commission's regular meetings.

47A.

(b)  For this purpose there is created the [Agricultural Advisory
Board of] Maryland Agricultural Commission, which has the duty
of formulating and making proposals for the advancement of Mary-
land agriculture by serving as an advisory body to the State Board
of Agriculture on matters pertaining to agriculture.

(c)  [The Board shall consist of ten persons, nine of whom shall
be appointed by the Governor of Maryland for terms of three years.
Five members of the Board shall be active bona fide farmers, one of
whom resides in each of the following regions of the State: (1)
Lower Eastern Shore, which consists of Dorchester, Somerset, Wi-
comico and Worcester counties; (2) Upper Eastern Shore which
consists of Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties;
(3) Central Maryland, which consists of Baltimore, Carroll, Harford,
Howard, and Montgomery counties; (4) Western Maryland, which
consists of Allegany, Frederick, Garrett and Washington counties;
and (5) Southern Maryland, which consists of Anne Arundel, Cal-
vert, Charles, Prince George's and St. Mary's counties. Two members
of the Board shall be active bona fide farmers and shall represent
the State at large; and the remaining two members shall represent
business or services directly related to agriculture. Of the nine mem-
bers first appointed to the Board, three shall serve for one year;