5G8 Third Annual Report of the 



years the sum of three thousaud doUars as premiums for agricul- 

 tural interests, exclusive of the premiums paid for trials or tests 

 of speed, skill or endurance of man or beast, under the conditions 

 and in the manner provided by section eighty-nine of this chapter. 

 .Seventy per centum of the balance of the amount so appropriated 

 shall be apportioned and distributed among the various county 

 agricultural societies and the American Institute in the city of 

 New York; and thirty per centum thereof among the various town 

 and other agricultural societies, clubs or exhibitions, entitled by 

 this section to receive thirty jjer centum of the moneys received 

 by the comptroller from the tax collected from the racing asso- 

 ciations, corporations or clubs of the State. Such apportionment 

 and distribution shall be made by the commissioner of agriculture 

 in the following manner: One-half of the seventy per centum to 

 be apportioned to such county agricultural societies and the Amer- 

 ican Institute of the city of New York shall be apportioned and 

 distributed equally and the remainder in proportion to the actual 

 premiums paid during the previous year by such societies and insti- 

 tute, exclusive of premiums paid for trials or tests of speed, skill 

 or endurance of man or beast. If there is no county agricultural 

 society in any county or if it is not in active operation as such, 

 then the town society or societies in such county, or other agricul- 

 tural societies in such county that would otherwise be entitled 

 to share under the thirty per centum distribution referred to in 

 this section, shall share jointly in the distribution of such money 

 on the same basis as they would if they were a county fair, pro- 

 vided such town societies sustain a public fair, with premium list, 

 which premium list and reports of such town fairs shall be for- 

 warded and made to the commissioner of agriculture. Of the 

 thirty per centum to be distributed among the various town and 

 other agricultural societies, clubs or exhibitions, one-third thereof 

 shall be apportioned and distributed equally and the remainder 

 in proportion to the premiums awarded and paid by said society, 

 club or exposition for exhibits made at the annual fair upon the 

 awards or premiums of which they seek a portion of the money 

 to be distributed, exclusive of premiums paid for trials or tests of 

 speed, skill or endurance of man or beast. No proportion of such 



