PART X. 



COUNTY AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETIES. 



SECTIONS OF LAW GOVERNING COUNTY AND 

 DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.* 



Sec. 1658. (Code Supplement. ) County societies— Premiums. County and dis- 

 trict agricultural societies may annually offer aad award premium i for the improvement 

 of stock, tillage, crops, implements, mechanical fabricrJ, articles of domestic industry, 

 and such other articles and improvements as they may think proper, and so regulate the 

 amount thereof and the different grades as to induce general competition. 



(For annotations see code, page 605. ) 



Sec. 1653. (Code Supplement. ) List of awards. Eaih county and district society 

 shall annually publish a list of the awards, and an abstract of the treasurer's account, in one 

 or more newspapers of the county, with a report of its proceedings during the year, and 

 a synopsis of the awards. It shall also make a report of the condition of agriculture in the 

 county to the board of directors of the state agricultual society, which shall be forwarded 

 on or before the first day of November in ea^h year to the secretary of said society. The 

 auditor of state, before issuing a warrant in favor of such societies for any amDunt, shall 

 demand the certificate of the secretary of the state society that such report has been made. 

 Any society failing to report on or before the first day of November shall not receive state 

 aid for that year. 



(For annotations see code page 605. ) 



Sec. 1630 (Cole) Appropriation from couaty. When a county agricultural 

 society shall have procured in fee simple, free from incumbrance, land for fair grounds 

 not less than ten acres in extent, or hold and occupy such amount of land by virtue of a 

 lease, and own and have thereon buildings and improvements worth at least two thou- 

 sand dollars, the board of supervisors of the cointy may appropriate and pay to it a sum 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars for every thousand inhabitants in 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 appropriated shall not exceed one thousand dollars to any 

 one society. 



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

 ure to report. 



Any county or district agricultural society, upon filing with the auditor of state alfi- 

 davits 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 gambhng devices or other violations of law were 



*See page 9o of this report for law governing represeutation of societies at the annual 

 agricultural convention. 



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