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shows and exhibitions, with all the powers of constables, for the 

 preservation of the public peace, and the enforcement of the 

 regulations of said society, within the towns where such shows 

 and exhibitions are held, from noon of the day preceding the 

 commencement of the same until noon of the day succeeding the 

 termination thereof, and no longer. 



Sec. 24. Whoever sells any refreshments, or other merchan- 

 dise, or exhibits any show or play within a quarter of a mile of 

 the fair grounds of any agricultural society, during the time of 

 any exhibition thereof, unless in his own dwelling-house, or usual 

 and ordinary place of business or lets any land or building 

 adjoining, or overlooking the fair grounds of such society, to 

 spectators of any exhibition thereof, during the time of such 

 exhibition, without the written consent of its trustees, forfeits to 

 such society not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered 

 on complaint of two of its trustees. 



