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form, and with the customary rights and powers ; and after such incor- 

 poration, the society shall have all the privileges, secured to other agri- 

 cultural societies, on complying with the terms and provisions herein 

 contained; provided, that no agricultural society shall have the benefits 

 of this section, unless the same be formed in a county, or in an asso- 

 ciation of counties, including a population of not less than twenty-five 

 thousand inhabitants. 



Sect. 3. Every agricultural society, which shall claim the said 

 allowance out of the public treasury, shall, in the month of October, 

 annually, file in the office of the Secretary of State, a certificate signed 

 by the president and treasurer of such society, specifying under oath 

 the sum actually contributed, and put at interest, and then held by them 

 well secured as a capital stock ; and a warrant shall be drawn for the 

 sum to which such society may be entitled. 



Sect. 4. Every agricultural society, which shall receive the said 

 allowance from the public treasury, shall offer annually, by way of 

 premiums, or shall apply otherwise, at their discretion, for the encour- 

 agement or improvement of agriculture or manufactures, a sum not less 

 than the amount annually received, as aforesaid, out of the public trea- 

 sury ; and they shall also transmit to the office of the secretary, in the 

 month of January, annually, a statement of their proceedings in relation 

 to the expenditure of such moneys, specifying the nature of the en- 

 couragement proposed by the society, and the objects for which their 

 premiums have been ofl^ered, and to whom they were awarded ; and 

 shall accompany the same with such general observations, concerning 

 the state of agriculture and manufactures, in the State, as they may 

 deem important or useful. 



Sect. 5. All moneys offered for premiums, which shall not bo 

 awarded or paid, shall be put out at interest, and added to the capital 

 stock of each agricultural society. 



Sect. 6. Every agricultural society, which shall receive the said 

 public allowance, shall offer, annually, such premiums and encourage- 

 ment, for the raising and preserving of oaks, and other forest trees, as 

 to them shall seem proper, and best adapted to perpetuate, within the 

 State, an adequate supply of ship timber. 



Sect. 7. The foregoing provisions shall not extend to any agricul- 

 tural society, which has been, or hereafter may be, incorporated for 

 any territory less than a county. 



Sect. 8. All incorporated agricultural societies may, by their offi-* 

 cers, define and fix bounds of sufficient extent, for the erection of their 

 cattle pens and yards, and for convenient passage ways to and about 

 the same, on the days of their cattle shows and exhibitions, and also 

 for their ploughing matches, and trials of working oxen ; within which 



