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and payment of the money so appropriated as premiums at its 

 annual fair or meeting for the promotion of agricultural inter- 

 ests, together with a bond executed to the people of the State, 

 signed in its name by the president and treasurer thereof, in 

 such amount and with such sureties as the comptroller shall 

 approve, conditioned for the faithful performance of its duties 

 as such agent. Any such society, club or exposition receiving 

 such sum of two thousand dollars as herein provided shall not 

 receive any portion of the moneys collected from racing associa- 

 tions or moneys already appropriated for the benefit of county 

 agricultural societies. (As amended by chapter 5S7 of the Laws 

 of 1895.) 



§ 90. Annual report to the commissioner of agriculture and state 

 society. — The president and treasurer of any agricultural society 

 which receives any money of the state or acts as the agent of 

 the state in the distribution of money of the state as premiums, 

 shall annually before the fifteenth of December, transmit to the 

 commissioner of agriculture a detailed account of the expendi- 

 ture or distribution of all such moneys as shall have come into 

 their hands during the preceding year, and of such other moneys 

 as they may have received from voluntary contributions for dis- 

 tribution as premiums, stating to whom, and for what purpose 

 paid, with the vouchers therefor. The presidents of the several 

 county societies and of the American institute shall annually 

 transmit in the month of December, to the executive committee 

 of the New York state agricultural society, all such reports or 

 returns as they are required to demand from applicants, for pre- 

 miums, together with an abstract of their proceedings during 

 the year which shall be examined by such executive committee, 

 and that they shall condense, arrange and report the same, with 

 a statement of their own proceedings to the legislature on or 

 before the first day of March in each year. 



§ 91. (1) No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, 

 or offer or expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance 

 of maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup in 



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