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AGRICULTURAL LAWS. 



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for which its premiums have been offered, and the persons 

 to whom they have been awarded, and including all re- 

 ports of committees and all statements of experiments 

 and cultivation regarded by the president and secretary 

 as worthy of publication, and with such general observa- 

 tions concerning the state of agriculture and manufactures 

 iu the commonwealth as it may deem useful. 



. The return shall be marked iu such manner that the 

 passages deemed by such officers most worthy of public 

 notice, study, and application may be easily distinguished. 



Sect. 6. A society which neglects in any year to com- 

 ply with the laws relating thereto, or with the regulations 

 of the board of agriculture, shall not be entitled to bounty 

 in the year next succeeding. 



Sect. 7. Every society which receives said bounty 

 shall offer annually by way of premiums, or shall otherwise 

 apply for the encouragement or improvement of agricul- 

 ture or manufactures, a sum not less than the amount so 

 annually received, and shall offer such premiums for 

 agricultural experiments and in such manner as the state 

 board of agriculture requires. 



Sect. 8. Every such society shall annually oft"er such 

 premiums and encouragement for the raising and pre- 

 serving of oaks and other forest trees as to it seems 

 proper and best adapted to perpetuate within the common- 

 wealth an adequate supply of ship timber. 



Sect. 9. Every such society shall admit as members, 

 upon equal terms, citizens of every town in the county in 

 which it is located, and all premiums offered shall be sub- 

 ject to the competition of every citizen of such county. 



Sect. 10. All money offered for premiums which is 

 not awarded or pai(i shall be put out at interest and added 

 to the capital stock of the society. 



Sect. 11. The foregoing provisions, except the proviso 

 in section three authorizing the state board of agriculture 

 to withhold bounty, shall not, except by special enact- 

 ment, extend to an agricultural society incorporated for 

 any territory less than a county. 



Sect. 12. Every society may by its officers define and 

 fix bounds of sufficient extent for the erection of its cattle 

 pens and yards, and for convenient passage ways to and 

 about the same, ou the days of its cattle shows and 

 exhibitions, and also for its ploughing matches and trials 

 of working oxen ; within which bounds no persons shall 



Forfeiture of 



bounty. 



G. S. 66, § 6. 



Premiums to 

 be offered by 

 societies, etc. 

 G. S. 66, § 7, 



for trees for 

 ship timber. 

 G, S. 66, § 8. 



All citizens of 

 county may 

 be members, 



1861, 180, § 1. 



Surplus to be 

 at interest. 

 G. S. 66, § 9. 



To what 

 societies pro- 

 visions apply. 

 G. 8. 66, § 10. 



1881, 285. 



Cattle shows 

 regulated. 

 G. 8. 66, § 11. 

 6 Allen, 588. 



