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eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Controller shall draw his warrant on the 

 Treasurer in favor of such Society, for the amount appropriated to such Society, and the 

 Treasurer shall pay the same The money so drawn by each Society shall be used for the pur- 

 pose of paying premiums for the different kinds of live stock, and the various agricultural, min- 

 eral, mechanical, and manufacturing products of this State, and for no other purpose ; and no 

 part whatever shall be given in any contingency in purses for horse-racing. 



Sec. 2. The Directors of each of the above named Societies, except the State Agricultural 

 Society, shall each year report to the State Board of Agriculture the name and post-office address 

 of each of the officers of such Society, on or before the first day of May: and on or before the 

 first day of December of each year they shall report to said Board of Agriculture the trans- 

 actions of said Society, including the list of articles exhibited, and for which premiums were 

 awarded; the amount of receipts and expenditures of the year, and the object for which the 

 expenditures have been made ; the new industries inaugurated, and new products produced, and 

 any and all other facts showing the development of the resources of the district embraced in 

 such Society which they may deem worthy of such report. 



Sec. 3. The State Board of Agriculture shall report annually, on or before the first day of 

 February, to the Governor of the State the full transactions of the State Society, including the 

 facts and statistics collected and information gained on the subject for which it exists; also, 

 including the report from each of the above named Societies, or so much thereof as said Board 

 may deem of value for publication. 



Sec. 4. The Governor shall cause five thousand volumes of said report of the State Board of 

 Agriculture to be printed each year, at the expense of the State, the cost not to exceed one dollar 

 per volume, and paid for as other public printing, and delivered to the State Agricultural Soci- 

 ety for general distribution. 



Sec. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provision[s] of this Act are hereby 

 repealed. 



Skc. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



