RS 1101 - Board of control of state penitentiary to maintain demonstration farms
The board of control of the state penitentiary shall maintain on Hope Plantation, Oakley Plantation and Monticello Plantation a general system of demonstration of agricultural and stock raising operations, to which at least five hundred acres of land on each of the properties should be dedicated from the area of each of the properties; it may in its discretion and to meet the requirements of the purposes herein set forth increase the area. No portion of the land so dedicated shall be sold by the Governor of the state by virtue of the authority of any legislative act prior to July 22, 1914, permitting the sale.