722 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



permitted, together with a certificate from the secretary of the state society showing 

 that it has reported according to law, shall be entitled to received 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 November, 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 located of such 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 cede page 605. ) 



Sec. 1662 (Code). Reports to supervisors. Ea^h society receiving such appropria 

 tion shall, through its secretary, make to the board of supervisors a detailed statement, 

 accompanied 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. 



Sbc. 1664 (Code). Police power. The president of any such society may appoint 

 such number of peace oflicers 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 con- 

 taining the same, and all tools or other implements used in any gambling, and remove or 

 causd 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 enclosure in which such agricultural fair is 

 being held. Any person owning, occupying or using any of such things causing such ob- 

 struction, who shall refuse or fail to remove the same when ordered to do so by the presi. 

 dent, 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 resolution of 

 any city or town shall in any way impair the authority of the society, but it shall have sole 

 and exclusive control over and management thereof. 



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, 

 Btake 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 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 one year, and be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand 

 dollars. 



Sec. 1667. Entry under changred 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 agsociation under which the contest is advertised to 

 be conducted, unless the former name is given. 



Sec. 1668. 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 asso- 

 ciation under which such contest is to be made, shall be determined by the public record 

 of said horse in any such former contest. 



