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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



RULES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES WHICH DRAW 



STATE BOUNTY. 



Amount of 

 bounty, how 

 predicated. 



Financial 

 returns. 



The following rules and recommendations are founded 

 upon the Public Statutes, chapter 114, section 6, which 

 reads as follows : — 



A society which neglects in any year to comply 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. 



Rule 1 . Every incorporated agricultural society which 

 was entitled to bounty from the Commonwealth before 

 the twenty-fifth day of May in the year 1866, and any 

 agricultural society which is the only one incorporated 

 within the limits of the county, and every other such 

 society made competent by special enactment, whose 

 exhibition grounds and buildings are not within twelve 

 miles of any other society drawing bounty, may receive 

 annually, in the month of October, a bounty of $200 

 from the State for Si, 000 raised by contribution of 

 individuals and put out at interest on public or private 

 security, or invested in real estate for its use and accom- 

 modation, as capital, and it may draw an additional sum 

 of $200 for each $1,000 so invested ; but in no case shall 

 a society draw more than $600 as bounty in one year, 

 nor more than it has paid out in the previous year for 

 premiums. (See Public Statutes, chapter 114, sections 

 1, 7 and 11 ; also Acts of 1890, chapter 297.) 



Rule 2. The president and treasurer of each incorpo- 

 rated society claiming bounty must specify 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 financial affairs as the 

 Board of Agriculture may require on a blank to be fur- 



