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It also provides for the receipt and apportionment of moneys 

 for the promotion of agriculture; provides that the moneys re- 

 ceived by the Comptroller from any taxes collected from racing 

 associations, pursuant to article 20 of the Membership Corpora- 

 tions Law, or hereafter otherwise collected from racing associa- 

 tions, corporations or clubs, shall constitute a fund, which shall 

 he annually disbursed on behalf of the state for the promotion 

 of agriculture and domestic arts, for the promotion of education 

 along agricultural lines and for the promotion of the improve- 

 ment of the breeding of cattle, sheep, horses and other domestic 

 animals at the various fairs throughout the state, and shall be 

 apportioned and distributed as hereinafter prescribed, among 

 all the various county agricultural societies therein named, such 

 apportionment to be based upon the amount of premiums paid by 

 such societies, except that no society shall receive more than 

 $4,000, and no society shall receive more money than it actually 

 paid out in premiums for the purposes therein specified. It 

 also provides that such societies shall make an annual report to 

 the Commissioner of Agriculture in such form as he shall pre- 

 scribe on or before the fifteenth day of December, giving a de- 

 tailed account of the expenditure or distribution of such moneys 

 as shall come into their hands during the preceding year, and 

 of such other moneys as they may have received from voluntary 

 contributions for distribution as premiums, stating to whom, and 

 for what purpose paid, with the vouchers therefor. It provides, 

 also, that any agricultural society or corporation owning or pos- 

 sessing grounds in a county of this state, having a population 

 of more than 300,000 and less than G()0,000 may lease such 

 grounds for any lawful purpose, except running races, not incon- 

 sistent with the use thereof for the purposes of the society or 

 corporation, for such time or times as said grounds may not be 

 needed by any such agricultural society or corporation for its 

 own purpose^. 



This article also provides against the manufacture and sale 

 of imitation maple sugar and syrup, providing that no syrup shall 

 be sold as maple syrup which is not pure maple syrup and no 

 sugar shall be sold as maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar; 

 defines maple syrup and maple sugar and provides further that 



