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Sect. 7. They shall annually on or before the fourth Wednesday of 

 January, by their chairman or secretary, submit to the legislature a 

 detailed report of their doings, with such recommendations and sugges- 

 tions as the interests of agriculture may require. 



Sect. 8. The secretary of the board shall in each year cause to be 

 made and published for distribution, as full an abstract of the returns of 

 the agricultural societies as he deems useful. 



Skct. 9. He may appoint one or more suitable agents, to visit the 

 towns in this state, under the direction of the board, for the purpose of 

 inquiring into the methods and wants of practical husbandry, ascertaining 

 the adaptation of agricultural products to soil, climate, and markets, 

 encouraging the establishment of farmers' clubs, agricultural libraries, 

 and reading-rooms, and of disseminating useful information in agriculture 

 by means of lectures or otherwise. Such agents shall annually in October 

 make detailed reports to the secretary of the board. 



CHAPTER 66. 



OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Section 1. Every incorporated agricultural soeie.ty which has raised 

 by contribution of individuals and put out at interest on public or private 

 security, or invested in real estate, buildings, and appurtenances, for its 

 use and accommodation, the sum of one thousand dollars, as a capital 

 appropriated for the uses of the society, shall be entitled to receive in 

 the month of October annually, out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, 

 the sum of two hundred dollars, and in that proportion annually for any 

 greater sum so contributed and put at interest or invested; but no society 

 shall receive from the treasury more than six hundred dollars in one 

 year. 



Sect 2. Every society which claims said bounty shall annually on 

 or before the tenth day of December, file in the office of the secretary of 

 the board of agriculture a certificate signed by its president and treasurer, 

 specifying under oath the sum so actually contributed and put at interest 

 or invested in real estate, buildings, or appurtenances, for its use and 

 accommodation, and then held so invested, or well secured as a capital 

 stock. 



Skct. 3. The amount of bounty to which a society is entitled for 

 any year shall be ascertained by the certificate last filed by it under the 

 preceding section. 



Sect. 4. No society receiving the bounty shall distribute any part 

 thereof for an animal or article for which a premium is awarded, unless 

 it was produced within the limits of the society, or the animal has been 

 owned and kept within its limits, by the person to whom the premium is 

 awarded, for three months next preceding the award. And no animal 

 or article for which a premium has been awarded to the owners by any 

 such society shall be considered a subject tin- any further premium of the 

 society, except for qualities different from those for which the former 

 premium was awarded, or for a higher premium, and no animal or article 

 shall lie offered for a premium at more than one such society in the same 



