The Indiana State Board of Agriculture is appropriated $10,000 annually.

permitted to enter the state, and which had fully complied with the laws in force where they were admitted. I am therefore of the opinion that while the legislature could have revoked the licenses of these companies and have imposed additional restrictions upon, or assessed additional fees against them, it has not done so by the act of 1907. AGRICULTURE, STATE BOARD OF-ANNUAL APPROPRI- ATION OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. April 6, 1907. TIon. Sid Conger, Member of State Board of Agriculture, Indian- apolis, Indiana: Dear Sir-In answer to your inquiry as to whether or not the annual appropriation of $10,000 for the use of the Indiana state board of agriculture, to be expended in the payment of premiums awarded by said board, is affected by chapter 143 of the acts of the general assembly of 1907, appearing at page 228 of said act, I beg leave to advise that the appropriation provided for in sec- tion 2794, Burns' Annotated Stat., Rev. 1901, is in my opinion a specific appropriation though regularly made by the section re- ferred to, and that it was not the purpose of the legislature to change the amount of this appropriation by the act first referred to. This conclusion is justified by the fact that in the appro- priation act passed by the general assembly of the state of In- diana for the year 1907, the appropriation is made of $10,000 to said board for the same purpose. The object and purpose of the act first above referred to is to fix the fiscal year of the state of Indiana, and the reduction re- ferred to in section 2 of that act is provided for, not for the pur- pose of reducing the regular appropriation, but for the purpose of making the appropriations the same as heretofore, correspond- ing with the number of months that will be covered by the appro- priations of the particular year mentioned in said section 2. It is therefore my opinion that the annual appropriation to the state board of agriculture of $10,000 referred to is iot to be reduced by section 2 of said act.