STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 6 



they shall furnish to the Governor a fall and detailed account of all its 

 transactions, including all the facts elicited, statistics collected, and in- 

 formation gained on the subject for which, it exists; and also a distinct 

 financial account of all funds received from whatever source, and of every 

 expenditure for whatever purpose, together with such suggestions as 

 experience and good policy shall dictate for the advancement of the best 

 interests of the State ; the said reports to be treated as other State doc- 

 uments are. 



Sec. 6. The Board of Agriculture shall have power to appoint a suit- 

 able number of persons to act as Marshals, who shall be from twelve 

 o'clock, noon, of the day previous to the opening of the exhibition, until 

 noon of the day after tbe close of the same, vested with all the powers 

 and prerogatives with which Constables are invested, so far as acts or 

 offences committed within or with reference to or in connection with the 

 exhibition are concerned. 



Sec 7. The Board of Agriculture may, in its discretion, award pre- 

 miums for the best cultivated farms, orchards, vineyards, gardens, etc.; 

 2>rovided, that said Board shall not audit, allow, or pay an amount ex- 

 ceeding one thousand dollars in any one year, for travelling expenses 

 of Visiting Committee in examining said farms, et cetera; provided, 

 farther, that no persons except practical agriculturists shall be appointed 

 on said committees. 



Sec 8. It shall be optional with any to whom a premium is awarded 

 to receive the article named or its equivalent (as affixed) in coin. 



Sec 9. The State Agriculture Society shall have power, at its first 

 annual meeting after the passage of this Act, to make such alterations 

 in its Constitution as shall make it conform to the provisions of this 

 Act. 



Sec 10. All Acts or provisions in conflict with the pi-ovisions of this 

 Act are hereby repealed. 



Sec 11. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN 

 ACT TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, APPROVED MAY 

 THIRTEENTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR, AND 

 AMENDED MARCH THIRTIETH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY- 

 EIGHT, APPROVED MARCH TWELFTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY- 

 THREE. 



[Approved April 13th, 1863.] 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do 



enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Board of Directors mentioned in section one of the 

 Act to which this Act is supplemental, shall audit all claims or demands 

 against the State Agricultural Society that have accrued prior to the 

 first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and allow such 

 as may be just and proper, and cause their warrants to be drawn on the 

 Treasurer of said society, payable out of the General Fund. Said war- 

 rants shall be signed by the President and Secretary of said Board of 

 Directors, and the Treasurer shall pay the same in the order of their 



