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Section 4. That when any number of individuals shall organize 

 themselves into an agricultural or horticultural society, or any 

 agricultural or horticultural society now organized within any of 

 the counties of this Commonwealth shall have adopted a constitu- 

 tion and by-laws for their government, elected their officers, and 

 raised annually, by the voluntary contributions of its members, any 

 sum of money, which shall have been actually paid into their treas- 

 ury, for the purpose of being disbursed for the promotion of agri- 

 cultural knowledge and improvement, and that fact be attested by 

 the affidavit of their president and treasurer, filed with the commis- 

 sioner of the count}', the said society shall be entitled to receive an- 

 nually a like sum from the treasurer of their said county: Provided, 

 That said annual payment out of the county funds shall not exceed 

 one hundred dollars: Provided further, That but one such society 

 in any county shall be entitled to receive such appropriation in any 

 one year, under this act. 



Section 5. That the president of the Pennsylvania State Agricul- 

 tural Society, who shall receive or expend any of the moneys hereby 

 appropriated, shall annually, on the first Monday of January, trans- 

 mit to the Governor of the Commonwealth a detailed account of the 

 expenditures of all the moneys which shall come into his hands under 

 this act, and stating to whom and for what purpose paid; and a copy 

 of the said report shall be transmitted to the legislature at as early 

 a day as practicable, and the original shall be filed in the office of the 

 Secretary of the Commonwealth. And the presidents of the several 

 county agricultural societies shall annually transmit, in the month 

 of December, to the executive committee of the Pennsylvania State 

 Agricultural Society, all such reports or returns as they are required 

 to demand and receive from applicants for premiums, together with 

 an abstract of their proceedings during the year. This act shall at 

 all times be within the power of the Legislature to modify, alter or 

 repeal the same. 



JOHN CESSNA, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, 

 Speaker of the Senate. 

 Approved — The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one 

 thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. 



WM. F. JOHNSON. 



