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permit the use of any gambling device, device, instrument or 

 contrivance in the operation of which bets are laid or wagers 

 made, wheel of fortune, or the playing or carrying on of any 

 game of chance, upon the grounds used by it for, or during, an 

 annual meeting, fair or exhibition, shall thereupon forfeit its 

 rights to any moneys it would or might be entitled to receive 

 under the provisions of this act; and it shall be the duty of the 

 president and secretary, or treasurer of every agricultural 

 society, agricultural club, or agricultural exposition entitled to 

 receive money under the provisions of this act, to certify, in 

 their annual report to the commissioner of agriculture executed 

 under oath, on or before the fifteenth day of December, in each 

 year, that at the last annual meeting, fair or exhibition held by 

 or under the direction of such society, club or exposition, it did 

 not knowingly permit any immoral, lewd, obscene or indecent 

 show or exhibition by whatever name known, or use or know- 

 ingly permit the use of, any gambling device, device, instrument 

 or contrivance in the operation of which bets were laid or wagers 

 made, any wheel of fortune, or the playing or carrying on of any 

 game of chance, upon the grounds used by it for, or during such 

 last annual meeting, fair or exhibition, which report shall be 

 filed in the office of commissioner of agriculture. If the presi- 

 dent and secretary or treasurer of any agricultural society, agri- 

 cultural club or agricultural exposition, entitled to receive 

 moneys under the provisions of this act, shall neglect or refuse 

 to make and file such certificate, such society, club or exposition 

 shall thereupon be deemed to have forfeited all its rights to 

 any moneys it might otherwise be entitled to receive under this 

 act for such year, but this shall not be construed to prohibit 

 horse racing or tests or trials of skill. 



§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately, except that all 

 moneys apportioned and distributed before October first, nine- 

 teen hundred and one, to the several agricultural societies, fair 

 associations, agricultural expositions, and the American insti- 

 tute of the city of New York herein mentioned and described for 

 premiums paid in the year nineteen hundred shall be on the 



