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can Institute, in the city of New York, as follows: One-half shall 

 be apportioned and distributed equally, and the remainder in pro- 

 portion to the premiums awarded and paid by said societj', 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. If there is no county 

 agricultural society in any county or it is not in active operation 

 as such, then the town society or societies in such county or other 

 agricultural 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, 

 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 such societies shall here- 

 after, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year^ 

 file a statement duly verified by the secretary and treasurer, show- 

 ing 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, which statement shall be filed in the oflSce of the 

 commissioner of agriculture. No such society, other than a 

 county society, shall be hereafter entitled to receive such appro- 

 priations in any year in which the actual amount paid by it as such 

 premium is less than five hundred dollars. Any town or other 

 agricultural society in a county in which there is no agricultural 

 society and which, according to the terms of this section receives 

 any portion of the seventy per centum of such funds apportioned 

 to county agricultural societies, shall not receive the portion of 

 the thirty per centum of such funds which they would be otherwise 

 entitled to receive. Any society, club or exposition, except the 

 New York State agricultural society, receiving the sum of two 

 thousand dollars under the provisions of section eighty-nine of 

 this act^ shall not receive any other portion of the money appro- 

 priated for the promotion of agriculture. 



§ 2. The sum of twenty-seven thousand two hundred and thir- 

 teen dollars and fifty-five cents, being the sum collected from 



