36 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



horse thieves and other criminals, and for the mutual protection of the 

 property of its members, such society may become a body corporate in 

 the manner prescribed in section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the 

 Revised Statutes, to which this is supplementary, with the right of 

 succession, and the right to make and use a common seal, and with 

 power to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with, to levy 

 and collect, by suit, if necessary, such assessments not exceeding three 

 dollars annually from each member, as may be required to carry out 

 the objects of the society, and to make for such society needful rules 

 and regulations not in conflict with the laws of this state. 



SEC. 3710. [Justices of the peace may appoint special constables.] 

 A justice of the peace may, on the application of a state, county, town- 

 ship, or an independent agricultural society, or industrial association, 

 appoint a suitable number of special constables to assist in keeping the 

 peace during the time when such society is holding its annual fair, and 

 shall make an entry in his docket of the number and names of all such 

 persons so appointed. 



SEC. 3711. [Powers of such constables.] Constables so ap- 

 pointed shall have all the power of constables to suppress riots, dis- 

 turbances and breaches of the peace ; they may, upon view, arrest any 

 person guilty of a violation of any of the laws of the state, and may 

 pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of the 

 state ; and they may apprehend any person in the act of committing 

 an offense, and, upon reasonable information, supported by affidavit, 

 procure process for the arrest of any person charged with a breach of 

 the peace, and forthwith bring such person before the competent au- 

 thority, and enforce all the laws for the preservation of good order. 



SEC. 3712. [Duties of certain officers to suppress sale of liquor 

 at fairs.] A judge of any court, sheriff, coroner, justice of the peace 

 of the proper county, a constable of the proper township, or the con- 

 stables specially appointed, shall, upon view or information, without 

 warrant, apprehend any person selling intoxicating liquors in violation 

 of law at or within two miles of the place where an agricultural fair is 

 being held, and seize the booth, tent, wagon, carriage, stand, vessel, or 

 boat at or from which such liquors are being sold, and convey the same 

 to a place of safe keeping, and take the person so offending before some 

 officer having competent jurisdiction, together with an inventory of the 

 things so seized, and the officer before whom such offender is brought, 

 shall proceed forthwith to inquire into the truth of the accusation, and 

 proceed as provided by law. 



SEC. 3713. [How articles seized to be disposed of.] The arti- 

 cles so seized shall be bound for the payment of all fines and costs 

 assessed against the accused in the proceeding, including the necessary 

 expenses of seizing and detaining the same, and shall remain in the 

 possession of the officer who makes the seizure until the determination 

 of the prosecution, and may be sold on process issued therein against 

 the accused. 



FARMERS INSTITUTES. 



(37 I 3- T ) SEC. i. [When farmers' institute society deemed body 

 corporate.] That when twenty or more persons, residents of any 

 county in the state, organize themselves into a farmers' institute society,, 

 for the purpose of teaching better methods of farming, stock raising,. 



