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pear; but nothing in this chapter shall affect, restrain, or limit, ;i compe- 

 titor for premiums offered by the slate board of agriculture or the 

 Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture to be awarded 

 within the incorporated county agricultural societies, hut such premiums 

 shall he subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by said board or 

 the trustees of said Massachusetts Society. 



Sect. 5. P^very such society shall annually on or before the tenth 

 day of December, make a full return of its doing3, signed by its presi- 

 dent and secretary, to the secretary of the board of agriculture, embracing 

 astatement of the expenditure of all money, specifying the nature of the 

 encouragement proposed by the society, the objects for which its pre- 

 miums have been offered, and the persons to whom they have been 

 awarded, and including all reports of committees and all statements of 

 experiments and cultivation regarded by the president and secretary as 

 worthy of publication ; and shall accompany the same with such general 

 observations concerning the state of agriculture and manufactures in the 

 state as it may deem important or useful. The return, whether in printed 

 or manuscript form, shall be marked in such manner that those passages 

 in the several reports and statements deemed by such officers most worthy 

 of public notice, study, and application, may be easily distinguished. 



Sect. 6. A society which neglects in any year to comply with the 

 laws relating thereto, or with the regulations of the board of agriculture, 

 shall not be entitled to the bounty of the state the year next succeeding. 



Sect. 7. Every society which receives said bounty shall offer annu- 

 ally, by way of premiums, or shall otherwise apply for the encourage- 

 ment or improvement of agriculture or manufactures, a sum not less 

 than the amount so annually received, and shall offer such premiums 

 for agricultural experiments and in such manner as the state board of 

 agriculture requires. 



Sect. 8. Every such society shall annually offer such premiums and 

 encouragement for the raising and preserving of oaks and other forest 

 trees, as to it seems proper and best adapted to perpetuate within the 

 state an adequate supply of ship timber. 



Sect. 9. All money offered for premiums which is not awarded or 

 paid shall be put out at interest and added to the capital stock of the 

 society. 



Sect. 10. The foregoing provisions shall not extend to an agricul- 

 tural society incorporated for any territory less than a county, except by 

 special enactment for that purpose. 



Sect. 11. Incorporated agricultural societies may by their officers 

 define and fix bounds of sufficient extent for the erectio nof their cattle 

 pens and yards, and for convenient passage-ways to and about the same,, 

 on the days of their cattle shows and exhibitions, and also for their 

 ploughing matches and trials of working oxen ; within wdiich bounds 

 no person shall be permitted to enter or pass unless in conformity with 

 the regulations of the officers of such societies. 



Sect. 12. Whoever contrary to the regulations, and after notice 

 thereof, enters or passes within the bounds so fixed, shall forfeit a sum 

 not exceeding five dollars. 



Sect. 13. The foregoing provisions shall not authorize a society to 

 occupy or include within such bounds the land of any person without 

 his consent, nor to obstruct the public travel on any turnpike or public 

 highway. 



