No. 4.] RULES OF THE BOARD. 451 



nished by the secretary of the said Board to the treasurer 

 of such societies. This statement shall be filed annually, 

 on or before the tenth day of January, in the office of 

 the secretary of the Board of Agriculture. (See Public 

 Statutes, chapter 114, section 2 ; also Acts of 1891, chap- 

 ter 124.) 



Rule 3. No incorporated agricultural society which Mortgage or 



*■ ^ sale or real 



has received or which may receive State bounty shall sell or estate, 

 moi'tgage the whole or any part of its real estate without 

 an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of such 

 society present and voting at a meeting duly called for 

 that purpose ; and the vote must afterward be approved 

 by the State Board of Agriculture, after due notice to 

 parties interested and a hearing thereon. (See Acts of 

 1890, chapter 274, section 1.) 



Rule 4. " The amount of money to which a society is Amount of 



bounty. 



entitled for any year shall be ascertained by the certificate 

 last filed by it with the secretary of the Board ; 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 meeting." And, in the event of the Board with- 

 holding the bounty from any society, theT secretary of the 

 Board must notify the Treasurer of the Commonwealth on 

 or before the first day of September in such year. (See 

 Public Statutes, chapter 114, section 3.) 



Rule 5. Each society shall annually make a return of Premium 



^ '' returns. 



its doings, " embracing a statement of the expenditure of 

 all money, specifying the nature of the encouragement 

 proposed by the society, the objects for which its premiums 

 have been offered, and the persons to loliom they have been 

 awarded" together with a statement of which premiums 

 have been paid from the State bounty. This statement 

 shall be signed by its president and secretary, and filed 

 with the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture on 

 or before the tenth day of January. (See Public Statutes, 

 chapter 114, section 5.) 



Rule 6. No part of the State bounty shall be paid in Residentaof 



State. 



premiums to any persons who are not residents of the 

 State. 



Rule 7. All moneys paid in premiums to parties not 

 residents of the State shall not be considered in predi- 



