948 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
fair shall be allowed four dollars ($4) per day and five cents per mile 
in going and returning from the place where the business is transacted, 
the claim for which shall in all cases be verified and paid as provided 
in section eight (8). [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 15.] 
Sec. 1657-q. Prior to the annual convention of the department of 
agriculture, the state accountant, provided for in section one hundred 
sixty-one-a (161-a) of the supplement to the code, 1907, shall examine 
and report upon all financial business of the department of agri- 
culture, said report to be made to the executive council and be pub- 
lished in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred 
sixty-three (163) of the code, and acts amendatory thereof. [28 G. 
A., ch. 58, § 16] [33 G. A.]. 
Approved February 23, A. D., 1909. 
Sec. 1657-r. Premium list and rules. The premium list and rules 
of exhibition shall be determined and published by the board prior to 
the first day of April in each year. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 17.] 
Sec. 1657-s. Corrective. That where the words "board of directors 
of the state agricultural society" occur in the code or the acts amenda- 
tory thereto, the same shall be construed to mean and to refer to the 
state board of agriculture; and the words "state society" and "state 
agricultural society" shall be construed to mean and refer to the 
department of agriculture. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 20.] 
Sec. 1657-t. Amounts appropriated. There is hereby appropriated 
annually from and after the first day of January nineteen hundred and 
one (1901) for the support of the office of the department of agricul- 
ture, twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) and for insurance and im- 
provements of buildings on the state fair grounds the sum of one thou- 
sand dollars ($1,000) or so much thereof as shall be necessary, and the 
auditor of state shall draw a warrant therefor upon the order of the 
department of agriculture signed by the president and secretary thereof, 
in such sums and at such times as the board shall deem necessary. 
The state shall not be liable for the payment of any premiums offered 
by the state board of agriculture, nor for any expenses or liabilities 
incurred by said board, except, as expressly provided for in this act. 
[28 G. A., ch. 58, § 21.] 
Sec. 1658. County societies — premiums. County and district agri- 
cultural societies may annually offer and award premiums for the 
improvement of stock, tillage, crops, implements, mechanical fabrics, 
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. [C, '7 3, § 1109; R., 
§ 1697.]. [28 G. A., ch. 59, § 2.] 
Under the statutory provision authorizing agricultural societies to 
award premiums, etc., such society has pov/er to authorize trials of 
speed on its grounds and such lawful games or amusements as its 
officers and directors may in their discretion see fit to arrange for in 
furnishing amusem^ent and entertainment as well as instruction to those 
attending. Therefore the directors of such society are not liable in 
their individual capacity for neglect to provide protection to spectators 
