REPORT OF THE DELEGATE 



Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 



FOR THE YEAR 1895. 



By E. W. WOOD, of "West Newton, Delegate. 



The Legislature of Massachusetts as early as 1819 took action 

 for the aid and encouragement of Agricultural Societies by pass- 

 ing the following act : 



An Act for the encouragement of Agriculture and Manufactures. 



Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 

 same, That every incorporated Agricultural Society within this 

 Commonwealth which shall have raised by subscription of individ- 

 uals, or which may hereafter raise by such subscription and put 

 out to interest on public or private security the sum of one thou- 

 sand dollars as a capital stock appropriated for the uses of said 

 society, shall be entitled to receive in the month of October 

 annually out of the treasury of this Commonwealth the sum of two 

 hundred dollars ; and also a proportionable sum annually for any 

 greater sum which they should so subscribe and put out to interest 

 as a capital : Provided, always that no agricultural society shall 

 receive by virtue of this act within one year any greater sum than 

 six hundred dollars. 



Additional sections provide for the formation of new societies 

 and the limitation of their boundaries ; and also require all societies 

 receiving the benefit of this act to file in the olllce of the Secretary 

 of the Commonwealth annually, in the month of October, a certifi- 

 cate signed by the President and Treasurer of such society speci- 



