180 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



[General Statutes, Chapter 66.] 

 Section 1. Every incorporated agricultural society which has 

 raised by contribution of individuals and put out at interest on 

 public or private security, or invested in real estate, buildings and 

 appurtenances for its use and accommodation, the sum of one thou- 

 sand dollars, as a capital appropriated for the uses of the society, 

 shall be entitled to receive, in the month of October annually, out of 

 the treasury of the Commonwealth, the sum of two hundred dollars, 

 and in that proportion annually for any greater sum so contributed 

 and put at interest or invested ; but no society shall receive from 

 the treasury more than six hundred dollars in one year. 



Sect. 2. Every society which claims said bounty shall annually, 

 on or before the tenth day of December,* file in the office of the secre- 

 tary of the board of agriculture a certificate signed by its president 

 and treasurer, specifying under oath the sum so actually contributed 

 and put at interest or invested in real estate, buildings or appur- 

 tenances for its use and accommodation, and then held so invested 

 or well secured as a capital stock. 



Sect. 3. The amount of bounty to which a society is entitled 

 for any year shall be ascertained by the certificate last filed by it 

 under the preceding section. 



Sect. 4.| No society receiving the bounty shall distribute any 

 part thereof for an animal or article for which a premium is awarded, 

 unless it was produced within the limits of the society, or the animal 

 has been owned and kept within its limits, by the person to whom 

 the premium is awarded, for three months next preceding the 

 award. And no animal or article for which a premium has been 

 awarded to the owners by any such society shall be considered a 

 subject for any further premium of the society, except for qualities 

 different from those for which the former premium was awarded, or 

 for a higher premium, and no animal or article shall be offered for a 

 premium at more than one such society in the same }"ear ; but 

 nothing in this chapter shall affect, restrain or limit a competitor for 



* Changed in 1874 to January 10. 



t This section was repealed in 1865. See Laws and Resolves, 1865, chapter 90. 



