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be signed by the president or vice-president, as faithful and correct, and a copy 

 thereof, attested by tlie president, vice-president, or secretary, for the time being, 

 shall be transmitted to the minister on or before the 1st day of January fol- 

 lowing. 



Each club is entitled to an annual grant of 50 cents per member, taken from 

 tbe sum appropriated to the payment of grants to agricultural societies, and 

 every member is further entitled to receive the Journal of Agriculture and Hor- 

 ticulture, notwithstanding no club shall receive in any year less than $25 nor 

 more than $50 in addition to the Journal of Agriculture and Horticulture, and 

 no grant can be given to a club unless $.30 have been subscribed and paid to 

 its treasurer by at least 25 members. 



1G7511. The grant shall be due and payable to each club so soon as the report, 

 statement of accounts, and scheme of operations thereof shall have received 

 the approval of the minister, and so soon as the president and secretary-treas- 

 urer or any other officer of the club shall have transmitted to the minister an 

 affidavit, in tbe form of Schedule F « of this section, sworn to before a justice 

 of the peace, setting forth the members then forming part of the clul) wbose 

 subscrii)tions for the current year have been paid into and are in the hands of 

 the treasurer. 



The said affidavit shall be sent by registered letter to the department of agri- 

 culture on or before the 1st of September in each year. If it be not transmitted 

 at such date or within the thirty days following the grant for that year may be 

 suppressed ; but it shall be tbe duty of the secretary of the council of agi-icul- 

 ture to give notice on the 1st day of July in each year to all clnl)S, by a regis- 

 tered letter addressed to the secretary -treasurer of eacli such club, tliat its 

 grant for the year will not be allowed if the affidavit reipiired by this article 

 has not been transmitted by registered letter to the said department, as by 

 law reijuired. 



l(>75(/fy. If a club neglects for two years to comply with the requirements of 

 the present section the minister may declare it dissolved, realize its property, 

 and employ the proceeds in paying the debts of such club, and use the surplus 

 of the assets over the liabilities for encouraging agricultural institutions and 

 for ]ir(»moting the general interests of agriculture in. the county in which such 

 club existed. 



l(ur)hbh. After an existence of live years such society may at any time be 

 dissolved by the minister upon petition of the majority of the clubs composing 

 the same. 



The minister may, if he orders tbe dissolution, take possession of the property 

 of the dissolved society, realize it, pay the debts, as well out of the proceeds of 

 its property as oiit of the grants to the clubs of the county, and if there is any 

 surplus may distribute it among the agricultural institutions of the same county 

 or territorial division. 



1675CCC. Every club forming part of a society and not having the amount of 

 subscriptions and the number of members reipiired by law may, however, con- 

 tinue to exist and to receive its grant, provided it has at least 15 members and 

 $15 of subscriptions. 



l(J75rf(Zf/. All the provisions of the revised statutes respecting clubs and agri- 

 cultural societies apply to clubs' societies and to the clubs composing them, in 

 so far as they are nut inconsistent with this section. 



The deputy minister of agriculture for the Province, who has 

 direction of the institute work, reports that over OOO farmers' chibs 



« Schedule omitted from this publication. 



