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wise, and thoroughfare leading to the enclosure 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 dollars for every such 

 offense. During the time the fair is being held no ordinance or resolu- 

 tion of any city or town shall in any way impair the authority of the 

 society, but it shall have sole and exclusive control and management 

 thereof. 



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



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 sweepstake 

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

 or persons in the state, or drive any such horse under an assumed name 

 or out of its proper class, where such prize, purse, premium or sweepstake 

 is to be decided by a contest of speed. 



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

 ceding 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 one year, 

 and be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. 



Sec. 16 67. Entry under changed name. The name of any horse, for 

 the purpose of entry for competition in any contest of speed, shall not be 

 changed after having once contested for a prize, purse, premium, stake or 

 sweepstake, except as provided by the code of printed rules of the society 

 or association under which the contest is advertised to be conducted, 

 unless the former name is given. 



Sec 166 8. Class determined. The class to which a horse belongs for 

 the purpose of an entry in any contest of speed, as provided by the printed 

 rules of the society or association under which such contest is to be 

 made, shall be determined by the public record of said horse in any such 

 former contest. 



PURCHASE OF LAND FOR COUNTY FAIR SOCIETIES. 

 Chapter 9 7, Acts of Thirty-second General Assembly. 



Sectiox 1. Supervisors empowered to purchase. That section four 

 hundred twenty-two (422) of the Code be and the same is hereby 

 amended by adding thereto as sub-division twenty-four (24) the 

 following: 



"24. To purchase real estate for county fairs. The title of such 

 real estate to be in the name of the county." 



Sec. 2. Question submitted — notice — title in county — control. Sec- 

 tion sixteen hundred sixty (1660) of the Code is hereby amended by 

 adding thereto the following: 



"The board of supervisors are further authorized to purchase real 

 estate for county fair purposes, in sums exceeding one thousand 



