TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 69 



CHAPTFR 175, ACTS OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH GENER- 

 AL ASSEMBLY 



Skc. 1. Repeal and substitute. That the law as it appears in section sixteen 

 hundred flfty-eight (1658) and section sixteen hundred fifty-nine (1659) sup- 

 plement to the code, 1913, and section sixteen hundred sixty-one-a (1661-a) 

 supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, be and the same are repealed and the 

 following enacted in lieu thereof : 



Sec. 2. Premiums. County and district fair or agricultural societies may 

 annually offer and award premiums to further the interest in and to encourage 

 the improvement of live stock, agricultural and educational products, implements 

 and mechanical devices, articles of domestic industry and such other articles as 

 they may think proper, and so regulate the amount thereof and the classifica- 

 tion as to induce general competition. 



Sec. 3. Report — State aid — Failure to report — Di^ninution of aid. Any 

 county and district fair or agricultural society upon filing with the secretary of 

 the state board of agriculture a report as herein provided for shall be entitled 

 to receive from the state treasury a sum equal to seventy per cent (70%) of the 

 first one thousand dollars ($1,000) and sixty per cent (60%) of all subsequent 

 amounts in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000) paid in cash premiums at its 

 annual fair for the current year, but in no case shall the amount paid to any 

 fair or society exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) in any one year. 



When any county and district fair or agricultural society fails to report, ac- 

 cording to law, on or before the first day of November, that fair or society shall 

 not receive a warrant from the state auditor for that year, but the secretary of 

 the state board of agriculture shall notify the county auditor of the county in 

 which the fair or society is located of such failure and the board of supervisors 

 may appoint a delegate to the state agricultural convention, said delegate to be 

 a resident of said county, and any county or district fair or agricultural society 

 failing to have an accredited delegate in attendance at the state agricultural 

 convention the second Wednesday in December of the year in which said fair 

 was held shall have the amount of state aid which it would otherwise receire 

 diminished in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100). 



Sec. 4. State hoard of agriculture — Statements filed with — List of awards, etc. 

 On or before the first day of November of each year the president, secretary and 

 treasurer of each county and district fair or agricultural society claiming the 

 benefit under this act, shall file with the secretary of the state board of agricul- 

 ture a sworn statement of the actual amount of cash premiums paid at the fair 

 of the current year, which must correspond with the published offer of premiums 

 and a further sworn statement that none of the amounts were paid for speed 

 events, or to secure games or amusements, and that no gambling devices, sale 

 of intoxicating liquor, or other violations of the law were permitted on the 

 grounds of such county and district fair or agricultural society. The said state- 

 ment shall also contain a full and complete statement of receipts and expendi- 

 tures and other statistical data relative to exhibits and attendance for the cur- 

 rent year. 



Each county and district fair or agricultural society shall annually publish 

 an itemized list of the awards, and a financial statement of receipts and dis- 

 bursements for the current year in one or more newspapers of the county. A 

 copy of the published list of awards and financial statement, with proof of pub- 

 lication, shall accompany the statement filed with the secretary of the state 

 board of agriculture. 



Sec. 5. Warrants by state auditor conditional. The auditor of state is here- 

 by authorized and directed to draw warrants on the state treasurer for the funds 

 hereinabove appropriated in favor of the several county and district fairs or 

 agricultural societies who shall have complied with the provisions of this act. 

 The auditor of state, before issuing a state warrant in favor of such county and 

 district fair or agricultural society for any amount shall demand the certificate 

 of the secretary of the state board of agriculture that said fair or society has 

 filed a report as provided for in this act, and upon the receipt of said certificate 

 the auditor of state shall issue his warrant for the amount to which said fair or 

 society is entitled, less the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), which amount 

 shall be withheld and paid to said fair or society by warrant of the state auditor 

 only upon certificate of the secretary of the state board of agriculture that said 

 fair or society had an accredited delegate in attendance upon the state agri- 

 cultural convention as hereinbefore required. 



Sex:. 6. Bona-fide exhibition — Incorporation under state laws. Wherever the 

 term "county and district fair or agricultural society" occurs in this act it shall 

 be held to mean a bona fide exhibition of live stock, together with agricultural 

 products and farm implements and one duly incorporated under the laws of the 

 State of Iowa. 



