﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  1085 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  589. 
  

  

  AN 
  ACT 
  to 
  amend 
  chapter 
  three 
  hundred 
  and 
  thirty-eight 
  of 
  the 
  

   laws 
  of 
  eighteen 
  hundred 
  and 
  ninety-three, 
  entitled 
  *' 
  An 
  act 
  in 
  

   relation 
  to 
  agriculture, 
  constituting 
  articles 
  one, 
  two, 
  three, 
  four 
  

   and 
  five 
  of 
  chapter 
  thirty^hree 
  of 
  the 
  general 
  laws," 
  as 
  amended 
  

   by 
  chapter 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty-one 
  of 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  eighteen 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  ninety-six, 
  relative 
  to 
  the 
  apportionment 
  of 
  moneys 
  

   appropriated 
  for 
  the 
  promotion 
  of 
  agriculture. 
  

  

  Became 
  a 
  law 
  May 
  19, 
  1897. 
  with 
  the 
  approval 
  of 
  the 
  Governor. 
  Passed, 
  

  

  three-fifths 
  being 
  present 
  

  

  The 
  People 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  represented 
  in 
  Senate 
  and 
  

   Assembly, 
  do 
  enact 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Section 
  1. 
  Section 
  eighty-eight 
  of 
  article 
  five 
  of 
  chapter 
  three 
  

   ihundred 
  and 
  thirty-eight 
  of 
  the 
  Jaws 
  of 
  eighteen 
  hundred 
  and 
  

   ninety-three, 
  as 
  amended 
  by 
  chapter 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty-one 
  

   of 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  eighteen 
  hundred 
  and 
  ninety-six, 
  is 
  hereby 
  amended 
  

   to 
  read 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  (Amended 
  by 
  section 
  1 
  of 
  chapter 
  494 
  of 
  the 
  Laics 
  of 
  1898, 
  and 
  chap- 
  

   ters 
  87 
  and 
  339 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  1900.) 
  

  

  § 
  88. 
  Receipts 
  and 
  apportionment 
  of 
  moneys 
  for 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   motion 
  of 
  agriculture. 
  Of 
  all 
  moneys 
  appropriated 
  for 
  the 
  

   promotion 
  of 
  agriculture 
  in 
  any 
  one 
  year, 
  twenty 
  thousand 
  dol- 
  

   lars 
  thereof 
  shall 
  be 
  distributed 
  in 
  premiums 
  by 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  

   State 
  Agricultural 
  Society; 
  two 
  thousand 
  dollars 
  thereof 
  shall 
  be 
  

   paid 
  to 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  agricultural 
  societies, 
  agricultural 
  clubs, 
  or 
  

   agricultural 
  expositions 
  which 
  shall 
  have 
  held 
  annual 
  agricultural 
  

   fairs 
  or 
  meetings 
  during 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  years 
  next 
  preceding 
  

   such 
  appropriation, 
  and 
  which 
  shall 
  have 
  paid 
  at 
  each 
  of 
  such 
  

   annual 
  fairs 
  or 
  meetings 
  during 
  such 
  three 
  years 
  the 
  sum 
  of 
  three 
  

   thousand 
  dollars 
  as 
  premiums 
  for 
  agricultural 
  interests, 
  exclusive 
  

   of 
  the 
  premiums 
  paid 
  for 
  trials 
  or 
  tests 
  of 
  speed, 
  skill 
  or 
  endurance 
  

   of 
  man 
  or 
  beast, 
  under 
  the 
  conditions 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  manner 
  provided 
  

   by 
  section 
  eighty-nine 
  of 
  this 
  chapter. 
  Seventy 
  per 
  centum 
  of 
  the 
  

   balance 
  of 
  the 
  amount 
  so 
  appropriated 
  shall 
  be 
  apportioned 
  and 
  

   distributed 
  among 
  the 
  various 
  county 
  agricultural 
  societies 
  and 
  

   the 
  American 
  Institute 
  in 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  New 
  York; 
  and 
  thirty 
  per 
  

  

  