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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Societies 

 claiming 

 bounty to 

 file certiflrate. 

 G. S. 66, § 2. 

 1891, 124. 



Amount of 



bounty. 



State board 



may withhold 



same. 



G. 8.66, §3. 



1881, 235. 



Societies may 

 make rules, 

 etc., for dis- 

 tribution of 

 bounty . 

 1865, 90, § 1. 



to make 

 annual re- 

 turns, with 

 passages, etc. 

 marked. 

 G. 8. 66, § 5. 

 1874, 182. 



any greater sura so contributed and put at interest or in- 

 vested ; but no society shall receive a larger amount in one 

 year than it has awarded and paid in premiums during the 

 3'ear last preceding, nor more than six hundred dollars : 

 2'>rovided, that if there is only one incorporated agricul- 

 tural society in any county, such society shall be entitled 

 to receive said bounty notwithstanding its exhibition 

 grounds and buildings are within twelve miles of a society 

 entitled to said bounty ; and jnovided^ farther, that such 

 society shall not after having received said bounty forfeit 

 the right to receive the same by reason of the subsequent 

 incorporation of another society within the same county. 



Sect. 2. Every society which claims bounty shall an- 

 nually, on or before the tenth day of January, file in the 

 office of the secretary of the board of agriculture, a cer- 

 tificate signed by its president and treasurer, specifying 

 under oath the sum so contributed and put at interest or 

 invested, and then held so invested or well secured as a 

 capital stock ; and also such other returns of their finan- 

 cial affairs as the board of agriculture may require, upon 

 a blank to be furnished by the secretary of the board of 

 agriculture to the treasurer of such societies. 



Sect. 3. The amount of bounty to wliich a society is 

 entitled for any year shall be ascertained by the certificate 

 last filed by it under the preceding section. But a society 

 shall not receive bounty in any year, if the state board of 

 agriculture, having first given such society full opportunity 

 to be heard in relation to its financial affairs and general 

 management, so determines by a two-thirds vote of the 

 whole number of its members present at its annual meet- 

 ing, and by its secretary notifies the treasurer of the com- 

 monwealth thereof on or before the first day of September 

 in such year. 



Sect. 4. Every society receiving bounty shall make 

 such rules and regulations for the distribution thereof as 

 shall, in its opinion, best promote tlie improvement of 

 agriculture ; subject, however, to the restrictions of sec- 

 tions six to ten inclusive. 



Sect. 5. Every such society shall annually, on or be- 

 fore the tenth day of January, make a full return of its 

 doings, signed by its president and secretary, to the sec- 

 retary of the board of agriculture, embracing a statement 

 of the expenditure of all money, specifying the nature of 

 the encouragement proposed by the society, the objects 



