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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 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, from twelve 

 o'clock, noon, of the 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 

 offenses 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, vinej^ards, gardens, etc.; 

 provided, that said Board shall .not audit, allow, or pay an amount exceed- 

 ing one thousand dollars in any one year for traveling expenses of 

 Visiting Committees in examining said farms, et cetaara; provided further, 

 that no person 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 Act are hereby repealed.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 



FOE THE ENCOUEAGEMENT OF AGRICULTUKE AND OTHEE INDUS- 

 TRIES, APPEOVED MAECH TWENTY-FIEST, EIGHTEEN HUN DEED 

 AND SEVENTY-TWO. 



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



do enact as follows: 



Section 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars 

 for the State Agricultural Society, the sum of three thousand dollars 

 for the Bay District Agricultural Society, and the sum of two thousand 

 dollars for each of the following named societies, viz: the Los Angeles 

 District Agricultural Association, the Santa Clara Valley Agricultural 

 Society, the Sonoma and Marin District Agricultural Society, the San 

 Joaquin Valley District Agricultural Society, the .Northern District 

 Agricultural, Horticultural, and Mechanical Society, the Upper Sacra- 

 mento Agricultural Society, the Siskiyou County Agricultural Society,, 

 and the Bay District Horticultural Society, and the California Vine 

 Growers' and Wine and. Brandy Manufacturers' Association, for each 

 of the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-three. Upon presentation of the requisition of the Presi- 

 dent and Secretary of either of the societies above named to the State 



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