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New York State Grange, one a member of the New York State 

 Association of County Agricultural Societies, and one a member 

 of the Union Association of Agricultural Societies. Of the nine 

 members first appointed hereunder, three shall hold for a term 

 of one year, three for a term of two years and three for a term of 

 three years. Their successors shall each be appointed for a term 

 of three years. In case of a vacancy in the office of the mem- 

 bers appointed from the societies or associations above men- 

 tioned, their successors shall be appointed from the same soci- 

 eties or associations. 



§ 142. State fair. — It shall be the duty of the said commission 

 to hold a state fair at such times as it may deem proper, and 

 between January first and February fifteenth in each calendar 

 year to publish the time of holding said fair in such year. It 

 shall not be lawful for any corporation, association or individual 

 to hold or conduct any trotting or pacing race or races during 

 the week in which the state fair is held except upon half mile 

 tracks, and except at the fairs held by agricultural societies 

 which have received moneys from the state, and no corporation, 

 association or individual holding such races during said week 

 shall be entitled to any of the benefits conferred by chapter five 

 hundred and seventy of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 five and any acts amendatory thereof or by any general or 

 special law. Such commission may make, alter, suspend or re- 

 peal needed rules relating to such fair, including the times and 

 duration thereof, the terms and conditions of entries and admis- 

 sions, exhibits, sale of privileges, payment of premiums, and any 

 other matters which it may deem proper in connection with such 

 fair. It shall furnish to each person who on the seventeenth 

 day of January, nineteen hundred was a life member of the state 

 agricultural society, a free admission to the fair ground during 

 the fair of each year during the life of such member. 



§ 2. The acts of the state fair commission in fixing the time 

 of holding the state fair for the year nineteen hundred and two, 

 and in publishing such time are hereby legalized, ratified and 

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