No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 15 



ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE AGRI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Through the efforts of a number of prominent men of Pennsylva- 

 nia in the year 1851, the following statute was passed by the law- 

 making power of the State: 



An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly 

 met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That 

 George W. Woodward, James Irvin, E. A. Thompson, Frederick 

 Watts, T. J. Bingham and others, who have subscribed the consti- 

 tution lately adopted by a convention assembled at Harrisburg, to 

 improve the condition of agriculture, horticulture and the household 

 arts, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate in 

 law, by the name of ''The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society," 

 and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and have capacity 

 to sue and to be sued, and may have a common seal, which at their 

 pleasure may alter or renew; they may take by gift, grant, devise, 

 bequest or otherwise, lauds and tenements, goods and chattels, nec- 

 essary for all the purposes for which the society was instituted: Pro- 

 vided, The annual income therefrom shall not exceed ten thousand 

 dollars, independent of annual contributions by members, and the 

 same to convey, lay out, apply and dispose of, for the benefit of the 

 said society, as they under their charter and by-laws may direct. 



Section 2. That the members of the said corporation shall have 

 power to make and enforce such constitution and by-laws as may be 

 necessary for the good government of the society, and the same from 

 time to time to revoke, alter and amend, as they may think proper: 

 Provided, That the same shall not be inconsistent with the Constitu- 

 tion and laws of this State. 



Section 3. That the sum of two thousand dollars, out of any money 

 in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be and the same is here- 

 by appropriated to the said society; and annually hereafter a sum of 

 equal amount to that paid by the members thereof into its treasury, 

 affidavit of which fact, and the amount so raised by the treasurer of 

 the society, being first filed with the State Treasurer: Provided, 

 Such sum shall not exceed two thousand dollars in any one year. 



