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APPENDIX. 



January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and 

 within the month of January in each succeeding year thereafter, as 

 required by the sections of the Revised Statutes mentioned in the pre- 

 ceding section, shall be entitled to receive any aid from the Common- 

 wealth. [February 25, 1842.] 



CHAPTER 111.-1845. 



AN ACT REQUIRING ADDITIONAL RETURNS FROM AGRICULTURAL 



SOCIETIES. 



Section 



1. Agricultural societies to make certain 



returns annually to the Secretary of 

 the Commonwealth. 



2. Passages in reports, &c., worthy of 



public notice, &c., to be marked. 



3. Copy of this act to be transmitted by 



Sectiox 



the Secretary. 



4. Abstract to be annually published by 



the Secretary. 



5. Penalty for neglect tO' comply with 



this act. 



6. Repeal of inconsistent provisions. 



Sect. 1. Every pgricultural society entitled to receive money from 

 the treasury of the Commonvk^ealth, shall, in addition to the return of 

 premiums paid, now required to be made in the month of January, 

 make full returns of their doings into the office of the Secretary of 

 State, on or before the first day of January, in every year, embracing 

 all reports of committees, and all statements of experiments and culti- 

 vation, deemed by the officers of the several societies worthy of publi- 

 cation. 



Sect. 2. The secretary of each society, whether his return be m 

 printed or manuscript form, shall mark, in a manner to be easily dis- 

 tinguished, those passages in the several reports and statements which 

 he regards as most worthy of public notice, study and application. 



Sect. 3. The Secretary of State is directed to transmit a copy of 

 this act to the secretary of every incorporated agricultural society in 

 the Commonwealth, on or before the first day of September, 1845. 



Sect. 4. The Secretary of State is hereby directed to cause as full 

 an abstract from said returns to be made and published in each year, 

 for distribution, as in his judgment will prove useful. 



Sect. 5. Any agricultural society which shall neglect, in any year, 

 to comply with the provisions of this act, shall forfeit its claim to bounty 

 from the Commonwealth the succeeding year. 



Sect. 6. Any parts of passed acts inconsistent with the provisions 

 of this, are hereby repealed. [March 7, 1845.] 



