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See. 1002. Keporl to siiiiervisoi-s. Kacli society receiving such 

 appropriation siiall, through its secretary, make to the board of super- 

 visors a detailed statement, accompanied witli vouchers, showing the 

 legal disbursement of all moneys so received. | C. '7:5, § 1113.1 



Sec. 106:$. I'erinits. The president of a district or county agricul- 

 tural society may grant a written permit to such persons as he thinks 

 proper, to sell fruit, provisions, and other articles not prohibited by 

 law, under such regulations as the board of directors may prescribe. 

 [C. '73, § 1115.1 



Sec. 1664. Police i)o\vei-. The i)resident of any such society may 

 appoint such number of peace officers as may be necessary, and may 

 arrest or cause to be arrested any person violating any of the provisions 

 of this chapter, and cause him to be taken before some justice of the 

 peace to be dealt with as provided by law; and he may seize or cause 

 to be seized all intoxicating liquors, wine, or beer of any kind, with 

 the vessels containing the same, and all tools or other implements 

 used in any gambling, and remove or cause to be removed all shows, 

 swings, booths, tents, carriages, vessels, boats, or any other thing that 

 may obstruct or cause to be obstructed, by collecting persons around 

 or otherwise, any thoroughfare leading to the inclosure in which such 

 agricultural fair is being held. Any person owning, occupying or using 

 any of such things causing such obstruction, who shall refuse or fail 

 to remove the same when ordered to do so by the president, shall be 

 liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dol- 

 lars for every such offense. During the time the fair is being held, 

 no ordinance or resolution of any city or town shall in any way impair 

 the authority of the society, but it shall have sole and exclusive con- 

 trol over and management thereof. [23 G. A., ch. 125; C. '73, § 1116.] 



The .society having no power to autliorize tlie arrest of persons for any 

 other offenses than selling intoxicating liquors, gambling and horse racing 

 within its grounds an arrest by its officers and agents for any other 

 offense, such as that of assault will not render tlie society liable : Hern 

 V. Iowa State Ag'l Society, 91-97. 



The society is an arm or agency of the state organized for the promo- 

 tion of the public good and for the advancenrjent of the agricultural inter- 

 ests of the state. Its funds should not be used to pay damages arising out 

 of the commission of wrongful acts by its officers and servants who are in 

 no way connected with the objects and purposes of its creation : Ibid. 



Sec. 1665. Fraudulent entries of horses. No person, partnership, 

 company or corporation shall knowingly enter or cause to. be entered 

 any horse of any age or sex under an assumed name, or out of its 

 proper class, to compete for any purse, prize, premium, stake or sweep- 

 stake offered or given by any agricultural or other society, association, 

 person or persons in the state, or drive any such horse under an as- 

 sumed name, or out of its proper class, where such prize, purse, pre- 

 mium, stake or sweepstake is to be decided by a contest of speed. 

 [24 G. A., ch. 67, § 1.] 



Sec. 1666. Penalty. Any person convicted of a violation of the 

 preceding section shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a period 

 of not more than three years, or in the county jail for not more than 



