780 APPENDIX. 



Sect. 4. The Secretary of tlie Commonwealth is hereby directed 

 to cause to be made and published, in each year, for distribution, as full 

 an abstract as, in his judgment, will be useful, from the returns afore- 

 said of the agricultural societies. 



Sect. 5. Any person who shall incur the forfeiture mentioned in 

 the ninth section of the forty-second chapter of the Revised Statutes, 

 may be prosecuted, by complaint before any justice of the peace, who 

 shall have jurisdiction thereof; and all forfeitures so recovered shall be, 

 by said justice of the peace, paid over to the county treasurer, for the 

 use of the county. 



Sect. 6. The Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby directed to 

 transmit a copy of this act to the secretary of every incorporated agri- 

 cultural society in the Commonwealth, on or before the first day of 

 September next. 



Sect. 7. The thirty-first chapter of the acts of the year eighteen 

 hundred and forty-two, also, the one hundred and eleventh chapter of 

 the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and all 

 parts of acts heretofore passed, inconsistent with the provisions of this 

 act, are hereby repealed. [March 11, 1847.] 



CHAPTER 215. — 1851. 



AN ACT TO EXEMPT AGHICULTURAL SOCIETIES FEOM TAXATION. 



Be it enacted, 8j-c.^ as foUoirs : 



From and after the passage of this act, the property, both real and 

 personal, of all agricultural societies, which are now or may hereafter 

 be incorporated, shall be exempted from taxation. [May 21, 1851.] 



CHAPTEE 246. — 1852. 



AN ACT CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Be it enacted, 4*c., as folloios : 



So much of the funds of incorporated agricultural societies as shall be 

 invested in real estate, buildings and appurtenances, for the use and 

 accommodation of said societies, shall be held to be so invested as to 

 entitle them to receive the bounty of the Commonwealth, in the same 

 manner as if put at interest, as provided in the first section of the forty- 

 second chapter of the Revised Statutes. [May 18, 1852.] 



