400 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Let all the large displays of all these be made more for exhibition 

 purposes, and not for competition, and let a liberal amount of money be 

 given to those persons or counties who will do this well. 



The following is the section giving the county courts authority to 

 appropriate money : 



ARTICLE 2, SECTION 4057 REVISED STATUTES. 



County Court may appropriate money to Society, when : 

 The county court of any county in which there shall be a society 

 organized according to this article, or any special act of incorporation, 

 shall have the power, and may, if it shall be deemed expedient, appro- 

 priate out of the county treasury, for the benefit of the society, the sum 

 of ($150.00) one hundred and fifty dollars in any one year, and the mon- 

 ey so appropriated, shall be drawn by the treasurer of the society, in a 

 proper warrant, provided said money shall be annually awarded, by the 

 board of directors, in premiums, or expended by them in the purchase 

 of premiums, to be known as " the (r ame of county) county court pre- 

 miums," to be awarded according to the rules, regulations and by-laws 

 of the society; and, provided further, that not more than one such pre- 

 mium shall be awarded to the same animal or article of exhibition by 

 the same county society. (G. S. 322, § 7.) 



