1918.] 



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porated society of this state carry iner on oi- j)romoting any brnnch of 

 :if4-ricultiir€'. holdinpr an as:ricultMral exhibition in this state, which shall 

 have paid during the year premiums amounting? to one hundred dollars, 

 the sum of one hundred dollars; to each society which shall have paid 

 during the year premiums amounting to more than one hundred dollars, 

 shall be paid lor each additional one hundred dollars, the sum of lifty 

 dollars, ihoi'kIkI, no agricultural society, except The Connecticut State 

 Agricultural Society, shall receive a greater sum than five hundred 

 dollars; but. in computing for the purposes of ihir, section the amount 

 of j)remiums i)aid by any such society, any premium or money paid 

 for horse racing or trials of speed or for any recreation or amusement 

 shall not be included. There shall be paid to The Connecticut State 

 Agricultural Society in any year in which said society shall hold an 

 exhil)ition the sum of four thousand dollars. No payments as herein- 

 before provided shall be made to any society which, during the four 

 years preceding, has declared or paid any dividend to its stockholders 

 or members. 



Sec. 2132. Statement of premiums. The secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture shall annually, during the month of Octoljer, 

 forward to each incorporated agricultural society suitable printed forms 

 for such statements in detail as the board may require for reporting 

 the names of all exhibitors, of the amount of premiums, and the objects 

 for which they have been paid, accompanied by proper vouchers if re- 

 quired, which statement shall be signed and sworn to by the president, 

 secretary or treasurer of the society and returned to the secretary of 

 the State Board of Agriculture before the fifteenth of December follow- 

 ing. Said secretary shall thereupon certify to the comptroller the 

 amount to which each society is entitled, and proper orders on the 

 state treasurer shall be drawn for the payment of the same. Any so- 

 ciety failing in any year to return its statement before the date above 

 limited shall not be entitled to any appropriation for that year. 



Sec. 2133. Liquor selling and gambling forbidden. No part of any 

 building or grounds within the enclosure in which is held the fair of 

 any incorporated agricultural society shall be leased for the sale of 

 spirituous or intoxicating liquors, the running of wheel-pools, so-called, 

 or the unlawful practice of any games of chance, or immoral shows, 

 nor shall anj' right or privilege be granted to any person to carry on 

 such sale, games or shows within such enclosure during the contin- 

 uance of such fair. 



Sec. 2134. ForfeitLire of appropriation. Xo such society shall be 

 entitled to any appropriation from the state treasury unless the presi- 

 dent, secretary and treasurer thereof shall make oath in its annual 

 statement to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture that the 

 regulations of the State Boa.rd of Agriculture concerning the conduct 

 of agricultural fairs have been complied with and that the provisions 

 of section 2133 have not been violated to their knowledge or with their 

 consent. 



Sec. 2135. Sale of intoxicants at or near agricultural fairs. Xo 

 person shall, during the holding of any agricultural fair, sell, keep, offer 

 or expose for sale any intoxicating liquors, or keep, manage, maintain 

 or operate any wheel -pool, dice game, pin game, shell game, coin table, 

 lottery, policy game or other illegal game or keep, manage, advertise or 

 call any obscene, immoral or indecent show, exhibition or muscular 

 dance, or any house or tent of ill-fame, or any house or tent reputed to 

 be resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lev/dne:-s, or have in 

 his possession any appliance or apparatu- for the conducting of such 

 games or shows, upon or within one thousand feet of the grounds 

 where such fair is in progress. Every person violating any provision 



