APPENDIX. 



LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETIES, UP TO IVIAY 10, 1853, INCLUSIVE. 



CHAPTER 42/ 



OF AGRICULTURAL CORPORATIONS. 



Section 



1. Incorporated agricultural societies 



may be entitled to an annual sum 

 from the treasury, by, &c. 



2. When unincorporated societies shall 



be entitled to a charter. 



3. Previous duty of societies claiming 



allowance from the treasury. 



4. Premiums to be offered by societies, 



&c. 



Sectiox 



5. Surplus money, to be put at interest. 



6. Premiums for raising trees for ship 



timber. 



7. To what societies the preceding 



provisions extend. 



8. Cattle shows regulated. 



9. Penalty for violating regulations. 



10. Extent of foregoing provisions. 



11. Marshals to be appointed, to exe- 



cute regulations. 



Section 1. Every incorporated agricultural society, which shall 

 have raised or may hereafter raise, by contribution of individuals, and 

 put out at interest, on public or private security, the sum of one thou- 

 sand dollars, as a capital stock appropriated for the uses of such society, 

 shall be entitled to receive, in the month of October, annually, out of 

 the treasury of the Commonwealth, the sum of two hundred dollars, 

 and in that proportion annually, for any greater sum so contributed and 

 put at interest, as a capital stock ; provided, that no agricultural society 

 shall receive from the treasury more than six hundred dollars in any 

 one year. 



Sect. 2. Any agricultural society, formed within any county or 

 counties, wherein there is no incorporated society for the same purpose, 

 and which shall raise and put out at interest, as a capital stock, not less 

 than one thousand dollars, for the uses of such society, shall receive, 

 on application to the legislature, an act of incorporation, in the usual 



* Revised Statutes. 



