REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 1/ 



RESOLVE IN FAVOR OF THE DAIRYING INTERESTS OF THE STATE OF 



MAINE. 



Resolved, That there be, and hereby is appropriated, to be 

 expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, the sum of three thousand dollars for the year nineteen 

 hundred and three, and three thousand dollars for nineteen hun- 

 dred and four, for the purpose of improving and protecting the 

 dairy interests of the State of Maine, by employing a dairy 

 expert, and suitable assistants, and paying such expenses in con- 

 nection therewith as the Commissioner may approve. 



LAW RELATING TO COUNTY AND LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



CHAPTER 60. R. S. 



Sec 13. County and local agricultural societies may take and 

 hold property, real and personal, the annual income of which 

 shall not exceed three thousand dollars, to be applied to the pur- 

 poses provided in their charters ; or their treasurers may receive 

 conveyances or leases of such property, for their societies, and 

 hold, sell, mortgage or pledge it, and shall give bonds to the 

 trustees for the safe keeping thereof and the faithful discharge 

 of their duties. 



Sec. 14. There shall be appropriated annually from the state 

 treasury, a sum of money not exceeding one cent and one-quarter 

 to each inhabitant of the state, w^hich shall be divided among the 

 legally incorporated agricultural societies of the state not pro- 

 vided for by special enactment, according to the amount of pre- 

 miums and gratuities actually paid in full by said societies, pro- 

 vided, that the stipend shall be based entirely upon the premiums 

 and gratuities actually paid in full on exhibition stocks and pro- 

 ducts, and provided, that no society shall receive from the state 

 a sum greater than that actually raised and paid by the society 

 for said purposes ; provided also, that each of the said societies 

 shall cause the prohibitory liquor law to be enforced on all 

 grounds over which they have control, and not allowing gam- 

 bling in any form or games of chance on said grounds. 



Sec. 15. None of such payments shall be made to any society 

 until the treasurer thereof files with the treasurer of state a cer- 

 tificate on oath stating the amount raised by it and containing the 



