310 APPENDIX. 



Skct. 14. The officers of each society may appoint a sufficient num- 

 ber of suitable persons, inhabitants of the county, to act as marshals at 

 cattle .-hows and exhibitions, who shall have and exercise all the powers 

 of constables in relation to the preservation of the pnblic peace and the 

 service and execution of criminal process within the respective towns 

 where such shows and exhibitions are held, and which process may be 

 directed to them accordingly; and they shall exercise their office from 

 twelve o'clock at noon of the day preceding the commencement of such 

 shows and exhibitions until twelve o'clock at noon of the day succeeding 

 the termination thereof, and no longer. 



Sect. 15. No incorporated agricultural society shall award a pre- 

 mium for a field crop, without satisfactory evidence under oath presented 

 to its committee or other officers, that the whole merchantable crop en- 

 tered for premium was weighed when harvested if a grass or root crop, 

 and when threshed or husked if a grain or corn crop ; but such society 

 may require further modes of ascertaining the merchantable amount of 

 product, either at the time of harvesting or at any other times. 



Sect. 1G. The agricultural societies shall commence their annual 

 exhibitions as follows: — 



Middlesex North, and Highland, on the last Thursday but two in 

 September ; 



Middlesex South, and Hampden East, on the last Tuesday but one of 

 September ; 



Middlesex, and Hampden, on the last Thursday but one of Sep- 

 tember ; 



Essex, Worcester North, and Berkshire,* on the last Tuesday of Sep- 

 tember ; 



Ilousatonic, on the last AVedne<day of September; 



Franklin, Worcester County West, and Norfolk, on the last Thursday 

 of September ; 



Berkshire,* Worcester, and Bristol, on the first Tuesday of Octo- 

 ber; 



Hampshire, Hampden, and Franklin, Worcester South, and Plymouth, 

 on the first Thursday of October; 



Barnstable, on the second Tuesday of October; 



Nantucket and Hampshire, on the second Thursday of October; 



Martha's Vineyard, on the third Tuesday of October. 



Agricultural, Horticultural, and Ornamental Tree Associations. 



Skct. 17. Ten or more persons in any county, city, or town, within 

 •the state, who by agreement in writing associate for the purpose of en- 

 couraging agriculture, horticulture, or fiir improving and ornamenting 

 the street- and public squares of any city or town by planting and culti- 

 vating ornamental trees therein, may become a corporation by such 

 name as they assume therefor, upon calling their first meeting and being 

 organized in the manner provided in sections ten and eleven of chapter 

 thirty-three; and shall thereupon during the pleasure of the legislature 



* The present legislature (18C0) will doubtless rectify this accidental error in the pas- 

 sage of the Act of 1859, and relieve the Berkshire Society from holding a lair on the last 

 Tuesday of September. 



