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rent, locations on their leased grounds to shopmen and persons 

 wishing to furnish suitable refreshments for victualing members 

 and visitors; to license peddlers to sell on their grounds articles 

 of merchandise, not forbidden to be sold by auy law of this 

 state without license from the state ; and in the name of such 

 association and upon the action and direction of its officers, to 

 sue for and collect the stipulated sums for such rentals and li- 

 censes, and to enforce the observance of its rules and regulations 

 by the several members of its association. And such association 

 is hereby empowered to issue certificates of indebtedness in 

 amounts of five dollars each, providing that the whole amount shall 



not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, 



Indebtedness, which they may sell at a price not below the 



certificate of. par value thereof, for the purpose of raising 



money for the erection of buildings, or for such 



other improvements as may be deemed necessary by a majority of 



the members of such association. 



§ 317. County judge may appoint policemen or constables. — The 



county judge of any county in this state wherein such a voluntary 

 association of farmers may exist is hereby authorized, upon the 

 nomination of the presiding officer, or the executive committee of 

 such association, to appoint any number of reputable persons, 

 citizens of such neighborhood, town or county, as special police- 

 men or constables, who shall have authority to preserve the peace 



at any meeting of such association on its 



Police, grounds or in the neighborhood thereof; and 



authority of. to protect the property of such association or of 



any of its members, visitors, lessees or licensees 

 while on such grounds or on the way to or from such grounds. But 

 such special policemen or constables shall have no authority, from 

 such appointment, to act as policemen or constables, other llian a3 

 herein authorized, except that they may arrest any person com- 

 mitting unlawful depreciation on such grounds, or unlawfully 

 juring persons or property thereon, or on the way to or from such 

 grounds, or otherwise committing br< a< hi s of the peace, and may 

 take such persons so offending, when arrested, before some proper 

 magistrate, to be dealt with according to law. 



§ 318. Registration of rural residences. — The owner, or owners, 

 if husband and wife, in fee of a parcel of land having a 



