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monwealth, in addition to the sum which it is entitled to receive under the 

 said section, four hundred dollars to l^e distributed in general premiums, 

 and in premiums to children and youths under eighteen years of age for the 

 encouragement of horticulture, agriculture and domestic manufactures, 

 subject to the discretion of each society drawing bounty; but no society 

 shall receive a larger sum in addition to the bounty to which it is entitled 

 under the said section than it shall have expended in the year last preceding 

 in premiums, in excess of the sum to which it is entitled under the said 

 section; nor in any case more than eight hundred dollars for general pre- 

 miums. [Approved May 4, 1917. 



BOUNTY TO POULTRY ASSOCIATIONS. 



General Acts, Chapter 85. 



An Act RELAxrvE to the payment of bounty to poultry associa- 

 tions. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as foUoics: 



Section 1. Every poultry association which shall have been incor- 

 porated under the laws of the commonwealth for the purposes, principallj^ 

 of holding exhibitions of poultry within the commonwealth shall be en- 

 titled to receive annually in May from the treasury of the commonwealth 

 not exceeding two hundred dollars : irrovided, however, that not more than 

 twenty such associations shall be entitled to receive bounty in any one 

 year; and provided, further, that no association shall receive a larger amount 

 in one year than it has awarded and paid in state first premiums in that 

 year on the kinds, breeds and varieties of poultry specified by the state 

 board of agriculture as provided in section four. 



Section 2. Every incorporated poultry association which desires to 

 receive the bounty aforesaid, shall annually, on or before the first day of 

 November in each year, file in the office of the secretary of the board of 

 agriculture, a certificate signed by its secretary, stating the amount which 

 it has offered or proposes to offer in "state first premiums" at its next 

 show. 



Section 3. No association shall Ix; entitled to any part of the said 

 Ixjunty unless it shall certify to the state board of agriculture, under oath 

 of the president and treasurer of the association, that it has held an ex- 

 hibition of poultry during the year, and shall also certify the amount paid 

 in premiums by the association at such exhibition, and that the association 

 is in need of aid to enable it to continue its exhibitions of poultry, together 

 wdth such other facts as the ])oard may request. 



Section 4. The state board of agriculture shall determine annually 

 the associations entitled to receive bounty, the kinds, breeds and varieties 

 of poultry to which state premiums as aforesaid may be awarded, and the 

 date on or before which associations shall file their certificates, and may 

 make such other rules and regulations as it may deem suitable for carrying 

 out the provisions of this act. 



