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an j privileges or moneys it might thereafter otherwise be en- 

 titled to under the provisions of this article. All agricultural 

 clubs, societies, agricultural fair associations, agricultural exposi- 

 tions, or the American institute of the city of New York, entitled 



to receive any portion of the moneys appro- 

 Statement to be priated by the state, must hereafter on or De- 

 filed by fore the fifteenth day of December, in each 

 associations. year, file a statement, duly verified by the 

 president and treasurer or secretary, 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, which statement together with vouchers for 

 moneys paid as premiums shall be filed in the office of the com- 

 missioner of agriculture, otherwise such society, fair association, 

 exposition, club, or the American institute of the city of New 

 York, shall forfeit its right to participate in the distribution of 

 such moneys for premiums paid for such year. ISTo other agri- 

 cultural society now or hereafter organized which is not 

 entitled to receive moneys under this section, except a county agri- 

 cultural society, shall be entitled to receive any 

 New societies. moneys under the provisions of this article, 

 until it shall have first filed annual reports 

 in the office of the commissioner of agriculture, as hereinbefore 

 provided, and paid in actual cash premiums for agricultural, 

 mechanical and domestic products at least fifteen hundred dol- 

 lars a year for three successive years, exclusive of the premiums 

 paid for trials, or tests of speed, skill or endurance of man or 

 beast. When any such other agricultural society has filed such 

 annual reports and paid such premiums for three successive 

 years as herein provided and to the satisfaction of the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, then the said commissioner of agriculture 

 may thereafter allow such society to draw moneys under and by 

 virtue of the provisions of this article. All such county agri- 

 cultural societies, town or other agricultural societies, or fair asso- 

 ciations, or agricultural expositions organized under the laws of 

 the state of ISTew York which have received moneys from the state 



for premiums paid for the promotion of agri- 

 Societies, legal culture and domestic arts, for the promotion 

 status of. of education along agricultural lines, or for the 



promotion of the improvement of the breeding 

 of cattle, sheep, horses and other domestic animals, shall be deemed 



