5G4: Third Annual Keport of the 



skill or endurance of man or beast. If there is no county agricul- 

 tural society in the county, or it is not in active operation as such, 

 the money which the county society would be entitled to receive 

 under this act, shall be apportioned among and paid to the sev- 

 eral town or other agricultural societies in such county according 

 to the amount of premiums paid, provided such town societies 

 sustain a public fair, with premium-lists, and reports of such 

 town fairs shall be forwarded and made to the commissioner of 

 agriculture. All societies other than county agricultural socie- 

 ties shall hereafter on or before the first day of December in each 

 jear, file a statement in duplicate, duly verified by the president 

 and treasurer, showing the amount of premiums paid at the last 

 annual fair, exclusive of premiums paid for trials or tests of 

 speed, skill or endurance of man or beast, one of which statements 

 shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of agriculture 

 and the other in the office of the comptroller, and no such society 

 shall be hereafter entitled to receive such appropriations in any 

 year in which the actual amount paid by it as such premiums 

 is less than five hundred dollars. 



§ 2. The sum of ninety-five thousand nine hundred and eighty 

 dollars and fifty-four cents, being the sum collected from racing 

 associations in pursuance of chapter four hundred and seventy- 

 nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as 

 amended by chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of the laws 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby appropriated out 

 of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be 

 distributed in the manner provided by section eighty-eight of 

 the agricultural law, as amended by this act, and in the propor- 

 tion provided by this act for the distribution of moneys already 

 collected and yet undistributed, as hereinbefore recited. Such 

 moneys shall be payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the 

 comptroller on the order of the commissioner of agriculture. 



§ 8. This act shall take effect immediately. 



