THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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(he reports vvliich are lo be made to the secretary 

 of state Irom (he stale society, and the county 

 societies, will form an annual volume of the most 

 instructive, and uselul kind, and wliicli will lorm a 

 record or history of agriculture in this state 

 invaluable to the (armer. The agricultural law 

 of 1S17, has done much for the Umie oI'De Witt 

 Clinton, and the good efl'ects result ing tVoni it have 

 not yet ceased to be (i?li. The liirmers of the state 

 have demanded, and the leg,islature liave agam 

 granted aid to the agricultuie of the state. Let 

 such a use be made of this money, a^d such a 

 spirit awakened in the communily, that, the 

 agricultural prosperity of the state shall be com- 

 mensuri^ite with its unequaled position, and its 

 immense resources. 



jJn act for the encouragement of jJgriculture. 

 [Passed May 5, 1841.] 



The people of the state of New- York, repre- 

 sented in senate and assembly, do enact as Ibllows: 

 § 1. The sum of eight thousand dollars per 

 annum shall be and hereby is appropriated lor 

 the term of five years, lor the promotion of agri- 

 culture and household manufactures in this slate, 

 in the manner loilowing, to wit: to the county ot' 

 Oneida, ^255 



Onondaga, 204 



Ontario, 1,30 



Orange, 152 



Orleans, 75 



Oswego, 131 



Otsego, 148 



Putnam, 38 



Queen's, 91 



Rensselaer, 180 



Richmond, 34 



Rockland, 36 



Saratoga, 121 



Schenectady, 51 



Schoharie, 97 



Seneca, 74 



Sleuben, 138 



St. Lawrence, 170 



Suffolk, . 97 



Sullivan, 47 



Tioga, 61 



Tompkins, 114 



Ulster, 137 



Warren, 40 



Washington, 123 



Wayne, 126 



Westchester, 146 



Yates, 61 



N. Y. S. Ag. Soc. 700 

 §2. When the New- York State Agricullural 

 Society and any county agricultural society now 

 formed, or which may hereafter be formed in this 

 state, or the American Institute in the city of 

 New- York, shall raise by voluntary subscription 

 any sum of money, the president end treasurer 

 shall make and subscribe an affidavit of the facts 

 of the formation of such society, and of their 

 having raised a certain sum, specifying the amount 

 thereof, which affidavit shall be filed with the' 

 comptroller of this state, who shall draw his war- 

 rant on the treasurer lor a sum equal to the amount 

 of such voluntary subscription, not however ex- 

 ceeding the amount lo whioh such county or stale 



society would be entitled, according to the appor- 

 tionment aforesaid. 



§ 3. The New- York Slate Agricultural Society 

 and the several county agricullural societies now 

 formed or which shall be formed in this state, 

 during the continuance of this aci, shall annually 

 elect euch and so many officers as they shall deem 

 proper; audit shall be the duty of such oflicera 

 annually to retrulate and award pretniums on 

 suclf articles, productions and iinprovements, as 

 they may deem best calculated to promote the 

 agricultural and household maimfacturing inte- 

 rests of this state, having especial reli^rence to 

 the net profits which accrue, or are likely to 

 accrue, from the niode of raising the crop or stock, 

 or the fabrication of the article thus offered, with 

 the intention that the reward shall be given for 

 the most economical or profitable mode of'compe- 

 tition', provided always, that before any premium 

 shall be delivered, the person claiming the same, 

 or to whom the same may be awarded, shall deli- 

 ver in writing to the president of the society as 

 accurate a description of the process in preparing 

 the soil, including the quantity and quality of the 

 manure applied, and in raising the crop, or feed- 

 ins the animal, as may bo ; and also of' the ex- 

 pense and product of the crop, or of increase in 

 value of the animal, vviih the view of showing 

 accurately the profit of cultivating the crop, or 

 leedintr or fattening the animal. 



§ 4. The president of the State Agriculttiral 

 Society, and tlie several presidents of the said 

 county societies, who shall receive or expend any 

 of the moneys hereby appropriated, shall annually, 

 in the month of December, transmit to the comf)- 

 troller a detailed acco«it of the expenditure of all 

 the moneys which shall come into their hands un- 

 der this act. Bird stating to whom and for what 

 purpose paid, with the vouchers thereof; and the 

 said presidents of the several county aiiricultural 

 societies shall annually transmit in the month of 

 December, to the Executive Conmiittee of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society, all such re- 

 ports or returns as they are required to demand 

 and receive from applicants for premiums, toge- 

 ther with an abstract of their proceedings during 

 the year. 



§ 5. The Executive Committee of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society shall examine all 

 reports and returns made by the presidents of the 

 county agricultural societies, and condense, ar- 

 range and report the same, together with a state- 

 ment of their own proceedings, to the secretary of 

 state, in the month of January in each year. 



§ 6. The presidents of the several county socie- 

 lies, or delegates to be chosen by them annually 

 for the purpose, shall be ex-offirio members of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society. 



§ 7. It shall be ihe duly of the coanty clerks in 

 the several counties of ihis slate to cause notice to 

 be given in one or more newspapers in each 

 county, of the time and place of a meeting to be 

 held in such county (or the purpose of organizing 

 such county agricultural society ; and notice there- 

 of shall be given at least four weeks previous to 

 such meeting. 



^ § 8. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Slate of New Vork, } This act having been ap- 

 Secretary'.'i Office, 5 proved and signed by the 

 Governor, on the 5th day of May, 1841, I do here- 

 by certify that tlieeame became a law on that day. 

 John C. Spenckr, Sec'y. of State. 



