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bounds no persons shall be permitted to enter or pass, unless in con- 

 formity with the regulations of the officers of said societies, respectively. 



Sect. 9. If any person shall, contrary to the regulations of the said 

 officers, and after notice thereof, enter or pass within the bounds so 

 fixed, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered 

 in an action on the case, for the use of the society, by the treasurer 

 thereof 



Sect. 10. The foregoing provisions shall not authorize such so- 

 cieties to occupy, or include within the bounds which they shall fix for 

 the purposes aforesaid, the land of any person, without his consent, nor 

 to occupy any turnpike or public highway, in such a manner as to ob- 

 struct the public travel. 



Sect. 11. The officers of every such society may appoint a suffi- 

 cient number of suitable persons, inhabitants of the county, to act as 

 marshals, at cattle shows and exhibitions, and they shall have and exer- 

 cise all the powers of constables, iri relation to the preservation of the 

 public peace, and the service and execution of criminal process, within 

 the towns, respectively, where such shows and exhibitions may be held ; 

 and any such criminal process may be directed to them accordingly; 

 and they shall exercise their said office, from twelve o'clock at noon of 

 the day preceding the commencement of such shows and exhibitions, 

 until twelve o'clock at noon of the day succeeding the termination 

 thereof, and no longer. 



CHAPTER 31. — 1842. 



AN ACT RELATING TO RETURNS FROM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Section 

 1. Returns, in 1842, to be made on or 

 before April 1st, to entitle societies 

 to the allowance provided by law. 



Section 

 2. After 1842, returns to be made with- 

 in the month of January, to entitle 

 to allowance. 



Sect. 1. No agricultural society which, on the first day of April, 

 in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, shall have 

 neglected to make returns to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as 

 required by the first and fourth sections of the forty-second chapter of 

 the Revised Statutes, shall be entitled to receive the allowance from the 

 Commonwealth, as therein provided. 



Sect. 2. No agricultural society, which shall not have made returns 

 to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth within the month of 

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