120 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



of this section shall for the fii'st offense be fined not more than fiftj'- 

 dollars, for the second offense be fined fifty dollars and imprisoned 

 thirty days and for every succeeding offense shall be fined one hundred 

 dollars and imprisoned sixty days. This prohibition shall extend from 

 sunrise on the opening- day to runset on the closing day of such fair, 

 and the officers of any agricultural society holding such fair may 

 severally, in person or by their duly authorized agents, make arrests 

 for any violation of this section and cause prosecution therefor. 



Sec. 2136. Special police for fair grounds. The board of managers 

 or executive committee of any agricultural society may appoint as 

 many citizens of this state as they may deem necessary to be policemen 

 on their grounds and in their fair buildings, who shall pi-eserve order, 

 prevent trespasses -within and around such grounds and buildings, pro- 

 tect the property therein, arrest, eject or temporarily confine in a 

 suitable lockup, on the grounds, all persons guilty of disorderly conduct 

 ■or other violation of law upon said grounds and generally have the 

 same power upon said grounds as constables or policemen. 



Sec. 2137. Unlawful conduct on fair grounds; penalty. Every 

 person who shall wilfully damage or destroy property on the fair 

 grounds of an agricultural rociety or who shall hinder or obstruct the 

 officers or police in the performance of their duties or shall wrongfully 

 or maliciously gain admission to the fair grounds without paying the 

 established fee therefor shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars 

 or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both. 



Sec. 2138. Illegal voting at meeting of society; penalty. Every 

 person not registered on the books of the recording secretary of the 

 state or a county agricultural society, as a member, who shall vote or 

 act in a meeting of any such society, shall be fined not more than 

 seven dollars. 



Sec. 2139. Entry of horse for purse. Xo person shall enter or 

 cause to be entered for competition for any purse, prize, premium, 

 stake or sweepstal^es, offered or given by any agricultural, trotting 

 or other society, association or person in this state, any horse, mare, 

 gelding, colt or filly under a false or assumed namei, or out of its 

 proper class, wherever and whenever such prize, purse, premium, stake 

 or sweepstakes is to depend upon and be decided by a contest of speed. 

 The class to which any such animal shall be deemed to belong, for 

 the purpose of entry in any such contest of speed, or the class to which 

 any owner, keeper or driver of any such animal shall have the right to 

 nominate or enter said animal, shall be determined by some public 

 performance of such animal in a former contest or trial of speed, as 

 provided by the v/ritten or printed rules of the society or association 

 under which the proposed contest is advertised to be conducted. 



Sec. 2140. Fraudulent concealment of horse's record. Xo person 

 shall knowingly misrepresent or fraudulently conceal the public per- 

 formance of a horse, mare, gelding", colt or filly in any former contest 

 or trial of speed for the purpose of securing an entry in any contest 

 referred to in the preceding section. 



Sec. 2141. Penalty. Every person violating any provision of the 

 two preceding sections shall be fined not more than one thousand 

 ■dollars or imprisoned not more than three years or both, 



CHAPTER 111. 

 Forestry. 



Sec. 2142. Bounty for planting, protecting and cultivating shade 

 trees. Every person planting, protecting and cultivating elm, maple, 



