1014 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



thereon buildings and improvements worth at least two thousand dollars, 

 the board of supervisors of the county may appropriate and pay to it 

 a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every thousand inhabitants 

 m the county, to be expended by it in fitting up or purchasing such fair 

 grounds, but for no other purpose; but the aggregate amount so appro- 

 priated shall not exceed one thousand dollars to any one society. 



Section 1661— a (Code Supplement)— State aid to district or county — 

 failure to report. 



Any county or district agricultural society, upon filing with the audi- 

 tor of state affidavits of its president secretary and treasurer 

 showing what sum has actually been paid out during the current year 

 for premiums, not including races, or money paid to secure games or 

 other amusements, and that no gambling devices or other violations of 

 law were permitted, together with a certificate from the secretary of the 

 state society showing that it has reported according to law, shall be enti- 

 tled to receive from the state treasury a sum equal to forty per cent, 

 of the amount so paid in premiums, but in no case shall the amount paid 

 to any society exceed the sum of two hundred dollars. When any society 

 fails to report, according to law, on or before the first day of Novvember, 

 that 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 such society is locatea m ft»»v.. 

 failure, and the board of supervisors may appoint a delegate to the annual 

 meeting or state agricultural convention, said delegate to be a resident 

 of said county. 



(For annotations to original section, see code, page 605.) 



Sec. 1662 (Code). Reports to supervisors. Each society receiving 

 such appropriation shall, through its secretary, make to the board of 

 supervisors a detailed statement, accompained with vouchers, showing 

 the legal disbursement of all moneys so received. 



Sec. 1663 (Code). Permits. The president of a district or county 

 agricultural 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. 



Sec. 1664 (Code). Police power. The president 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 provi- 

 sions 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 cauwe 

 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 other- 

 wise any 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 



