STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 7 



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 

 documents 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, I'rom twelve 

 o'clock, noon, of t.lie day previous to the opening of the exhibition, until 

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

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

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

 exhibition are concerned. 



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

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

 jyrovuled, 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; jirovkled, 

 further, 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 Agricultural 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 provisions of this 

 Act are hereby repealed. 



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



AN ACT 



SUPPLEMENTAL TO AX ACT ENTITLED AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT 

 TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, APPROVED MAY 

 THIRTEENTH, ONE THOUSAND IdllT 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 I3th, 1S6.3.] 



The Peojih of ilie State of. California, represented in Senate and AssemUi/, do 



enact as fallows : 



Sectiox 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 societ}-, 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 

 presentation, if there be money in said Fund ; but if not, then he shall 

 indorse on the back of the warrant, "presented and not paid for want 



of funds, this day of , Anno Domini eighteen hundred and 



sixty ," and said warrants shall draw interest at the rate of ten per 



cent per annum from the date of presentation until paid. 



