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seventy-four pounds. No person shall make, or cause to be 

 made, barrels holding less than the quantity herein specified, 

 knowing or having reason to believe that the same are to be 

 used for the sale of apples, quinces, pears or potatoes, unless 

 such barrel is plainly marked on the outside thereof with the 

 words " short barrel " in letters of not less than one inch in 

 height. No person in this state shall use barrels hereafter 

 made for the sale of such articles of a size less than the size 

 specified in this section. Every person violating any provision 

 of this section shall forfeit to the people of this state a sum of 

 five dollars for every barrel put up or made or used in violation 

 of such provision. 



§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



CHAPTER 582. 



AX ACT to amend the membership corporations law, relative to 

 agricultural corporations and agricultural societies. 



Became a law, April 14, 1002, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, 



three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as folloics: 



Section 1. Section one hundred and forty of chapter five hun- 

 dred and fifty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 five, entitled "An act in relation to membership corporations, 

 constituting chapter forty-three of the general laws," is hereby 

 amended to read as follows: 



§ 140. Certificate of incorporation. — Ten or more persons may 

 form a county or tow.a agricultural corporation for promoting 

 agriculture, horticulture and the mechanic arts, by making, 

 acknowledging and filing a certificate, stating the particular 

 objects for which the corporation is to be created; the terri- 

 tory in which its operations are to be conducted; the town, 

 village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the 



