NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XV 949 
against dangers incident to the playing of such games as are author- 
ized. Williams v. Dean, 111 N. W. 931. 
Sec. 1659. List of awards. Each 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 agricultural society, which shall be 
forwarded on or before the first day of November in each year to the 
secretary of said society. The auditor of state, before issuing a war- 
rant in favor of such societies for any amount, shall demand the certifi- 
cate 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. [C, '73, § 1110; R., 
§ 1698.] [28 G. A., ch. 59, § 2.] 
Sec. 1660. Appropriation from county — question submitted — notice 
— title in county — control. When a county agri(ultural society shall 
havo produced 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 ov/n and have thereon build- 
ings 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 in the 
county, to be expended by it in fitting up or purchasing such fair 
grounds, but for no .other purpose; but the agregate amount so -appro- 
priated shall not exceed one thousand dollars to any one society. The 
board of supervisors are further authorized to purchase real estate 
for county fair purposes, in sums not exceeding one thousand dollars 
($1,000.00), providing however, that the board of supervisors shall 
first have submitted to the legal voters of the county a proposition 
therefor, and voted for by a majority of all persons voting for and 
against such proposition at a general or special election; notice to be 
given as provided in section four hundred twenty-three (423) of the 
supplement to the code. And the board of supervisors shall not exceed 
in the purchase of such real estate, the amount so voted for. The title 
of such real estate when purchased to be taken in the name of the 
county, and the board of supervisors shall place such real estate under 
the control and management of an incorporated county fair society, 
as long as an annual county fair is maintained by such corporation on 
said real estate. And said corporation is authorized to erect and main- 
tain buildings and make such other improvements on said real estate as 
is necessary, but the county shall not be liable for such improvements, 
or the expenditures therefor. The right of such county fair society 
to the control and management of said real estate may be terminated 
by the board of supervisors whenever well conducted agricultural fairs 
are not annually held thereon. [C, '73, § 111.] [32 G. A., ch. 17, 
§ 2.] 
Sec. 1661-a. Repeal — state aid to district or county society — failure 
to report. That section sixteen hundred sixty-one (1661) of the code 
be and is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 
