APPENDIX. 



779 



CHAPTEK 69. — 1847 



AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Section 



1. Certificate of capital stock to be filed 

 I annually in the Secretary's office, 



by agricultural societies claiming 

 the bounty. Return of doings, ex- 

 penditures, &c., to be made at the 

 same time. 



2. How amount of bounty to be ascer- 



tained. 



3. Bounty forfeited by neglect. 



Section 



4. Abstract of returns to be published 



annually for distribution. 



5. Forfeitures incurred by R. S. ch. 42, 



§ 9, — how prosecuted for and paid 

 over. 



6. Secretary to transmit copies of this 



act to agricultural societies. 



7. Acts, &c., repealed. 



Sect. 1. Every agricultural society which shall claim the bounty 

 of the Commonwealih, according to the provisions of the first section of 

 the forty-second chapter of the Revised Statutes, shall, annually, on or 

 before the tenth day of January, file in the office of the Secretary of 

 the Commonwealth, 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, well secured, as a capital stock. 



Every such society shall, at the same time, make a full return of 

 its doings, signed by its president and secretary, embracing a statement 

 of the expenditure of all moneys, specifying the nature of the encour- 

 agement proposed by the society, the object for which its preminms 

 have been offered, and to whom they have been awarded, and including 

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

 vation, regarded by said president and secretary as worthy of publi- 

 cation. The return, whether in printed or manuscript form, shall be 

 marked in such manner, that those passages in the several reports and 

 statements deemed by such officers most worthy of public notice, study, 

 and application, may be easily distinguished. 



Sect. 2. The amount of bounty to which any agricultural society 

 may be entitled for the year one thousand eight hundred and forly- 

 seven shall be ascertained by the certificate to be filed in the month of 

 October, according to the provisions of law as heretofore existing; and 

 for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and each year 

 thereafter, by the certificate previously filed by such society, according 

 to the provisions of this act. 



Sect. 3, Any agricultural society which shall neglect, in any year, 

 to comply with the foregoing provisions, shall forfeit its claim to the 

 bounty of the Commonwealth the year next succeeding. 



