No. 4.] 



AGRICULTURAL LAWS. 



435 



STATUTES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL AND 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



PUBLIC STATUTES. — CHAPTER 114, 



INDEX. 



Section 



1. Agricultural Bocieties may be entitled 

 to annual sum from the treasury, by, 

 etc. 



2. Societies claiming bounty to file certifi- 

 cate. 



3. Amount of bounty. State board may 

 withhold the same. 



Societies may make rules for distribu- 

 tion of bouiily. 



to make annual returns, with passages, 

 etc., marked. 

 Forfeiture of bounty. 

 Premiums to be offered by societies, etc. 



for trees for ship limber. 

 All citizens of county may become mem- 

 bers, and compete for premiums. 

 Surplus to be at interest, 



11. To what societies provisions apply. 



12. Cattle shows regulated. 



13. Penalty. 



14. Extent of foregoing provisions. 



4. 



5. 



10. 



Section 



15. Marshals to be appointed; to have pow- 

 ers of constables. 



16. Rules for ascertaining amount of pre- 

 mium crops. 



17. Premiums for experiments. 



ASSOCIATIONS FOR ENCOURAGINa 

 AGRICULTURE, ETC. 



18. Ten or more persons may become a cor-, 

 poration. Powers and privileges. 



TARMERS' CLUBS. 



19. Farmers' ciubs to receive publications, 

 etc. 



GOOD ORDER AT FAIRS, ETC. 



20. Societies, etc., may make regulations for 

 preservation of peace at fairs, etc. 



21. Booths, etc., not to be established within 

 half mile of cattle shows, without con- 

 sent. Gacning, etc., prohibited. 



22. Penalty. 



Section 1. Every incorporated agricultural society 

 which was entitled to bounty from the commonwealth be- 

 fore the twenty-fifth day of May in the year eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-six, and every other such society whose 

 exhibition grounds and buildings are not within twelve 

 miles of those of a society then entitled to bounty, and 

 which has raised by contribution of individuals and put 

 out at interest on public or private security, or invested 

 in real estate, buildings, and appurtenances for its use 

 and accommodation, one thousand dollars, as a capital 

 appropriated for its uses, shall, except when otlierwise 

 determined by the state board of agriculture as provided 

 in section three, be entitled to receive in the month of 

 October annually, out of the treasury of the common- 

 wealth, two hundred dollars, and in that proportion for 



Agricultural 

 societies may 

 be entitled to 

 annual sum 

 from the 

 treasury, by, 

 etc. 



(Jt. S.66, § 1. 

 1866, 189, § 1. 

 1870, 258. 

 1881, 285. 

 1890, 297. 



