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tillage or production, and the expense and value of the same, with a view 

 of showing accurately the profits derived or expected to be derived there- 

 from. Provided, that during any year, when the state board of agricul- 

 ture shall hold its fair upon the grounds of any county or district agri- 

 cultural society, such society shall be excused if its board of directors 

 so decides from complying with the provisions of this section, ancLsliall 

 incur no forfeiture of its rights as such agricultural society, by reason 

 of not holding such fair. 



SEC. 3699. [Must publish a list of awards, etc.] County and 

 district societies shall publish, annually, a list of awards, and an abstract 

 of the treasurer's account, in a newspaper of the district, and make a 

 report of their proceedings during the year, and a synopsis of the awards 

 for improvements in agriculture and household manufactures, together 

 with an abstract of the several descriptions of these improvements, and 

 also make a report of the condition of agriculture in their county or dis- 

 trict, which report shall be made in accordance with the rules and regu- 

 lations of the state board of agriculture, and shall be forwarded to the 

 state board at its annual meeting in January in each year; and no sub- 

 sequent payment shall be made from the county treasury unless a certifi- 

 cate be presented to the auditor, f rom ,the president of the state board, 

 showing that such reports have been made. 



SEC. 3700. [County societies erected into corporations.] All 

 county societies which have been or may hereafter be organized are 

 declared bodies corporate and politic, and as such shall be capable of 

 suing and being sued, and of holding in fee simple such real estate as 

 they have heretofore purchased or may hereafter purchase as sites where- 

 on to hold their fairs. 



SEC. 3701. [Conveyance to such- societies declared valid.] All 

 deeds, conveyances and agreements in writing, made to and by such 

 county societies, for the purchase of real estate as sites whereon to hold 

 their fairs, shall be goocl and valid in law and equity, and shall vest a 

 title in fee simple in such societies to the real estate, without words of 

 inheritance. 



SEC. 3702. [Commissioners may assist agricultural societies in 

 purchasing, etc., sites for fairs; levy of tax.] When a county society 

 has purchased, or leased for a term of not less than twenty years, real 

 estate as a site whereon to hold fairs, or where the title to the grounds 

 is vested in fee in the county, but the society has the control and man- 

 agement of the lands and buildings, the county commissioners may, if 

 they think it for the interests of the county, and society, pay out of the 

 county treasury the same amount of money for the purchase or lease 

 and improvement of such site as is paid by such agricultural society or 

 individuals for such purpose; and such commissioners may levy a tax 

 upon all the taxable property of the county sufficient to meet the provis- 

 ions of this section. 



(3702-1) SEC. I. [Submission of question if Issuing bonds to 

 liquidate debt of county agricultural society.] In all counties in 

 which there may be a county agricultural society which has purchased 

 a site whereon to hold fairs, or where the title to such grounds is vested 

 in fee in the county, and such society has become indebted to an extent 

 of not less than fifteen thousand dollars upon the presentation of a peti- 

 tion signed by not less than five hundred resident electors of the county 

 praying for the submission to the electors of the county of the question 



