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CHAPTER 640. 



AN ACT to amend the agricultuml law authorizing agricultural 

 societies and corporations to lease their grounds. 



Became .1 law May 10, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three- 

 fifths beiug present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Section ninety-one, article five of the agricultural 

 law is hereby amended to read as follows: 



§ 91. Lease of grounds of agricultural societies and copor- 

 rations. Any agricultural society or corporation, owning or pos- 

 sessing grounds in a county of this State having a population of 

 more than three hundred thousand and less than six hundred 

 thousand may lease such grounds for any lawful purpose except 

 running races not inconsistent with the use thereof for the pur- 

 poses of the society or corporation, for such time or times as said 

 grounds may not be needed by any such agricultural society or cor- 

 poration for its own purposes. 



§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



CHAPTER 654. 

 AN ACT making appropriations for the support of government. 



Became a law May 11, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three- 

 fifths being present. 



The People of the State of Neiv York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. The several amounts named in this act are hereby 

 appropriated and authorized to be paid from the several funds 

 indicated, to the respective public officers, and for the several 

 purposes specified, for the fiscal year beginning on the first day 

 of October, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, namely: 



FROM THE GENERAL FUND. 



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For the promotion of agriculture in this state, sixty-four 

 thousand dollars; twenty thousand dollars thereof shall be dis- 



