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their cattle-pens and yards, and for convenient passageways to and 

 about the same, on the days of their cattle shows and exhibitions, 

 and also for their ploughing matches and trials of working oxen ; 

 within which bounds no person shall be permitted to enter or pass 

 unless in conformity with the regulations of the officers of such 

 societies. 



Sect. 12. "Whoever, contrary to the regulations, and after notice 

 thereof, enters or passes within the bounds so fixed, shall forfeit a 

 sum not exceeding five dollars. 



Sect. 13. The foregoing provisions shall not authorize a society 

 to occupy or include within such bounds the land of any person 

 without his consent, nor to obstruct the public travel on any turn- 

 pike or public highway. 



Sect. 14. The officers of each society may appoint a sufficient 

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

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

 cise all the powers of constables in relation to the preservation of 

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

 within the respective towns where such shows and exhibitions are 

 held, and which process may be directed to them accordingly ; and 

 they shall exercise their office from twelve o'clock at noon of the 

 day preceding the commencement of such shows and exhibitions, 

 until twelve o'clock at noon succeeding the termination thereof, and 

 no longer. 



Sect. 15. No incorporated agricultural society shall award a 

 premium for a field crop, without satisfactory evidence under oath 

 presented to its committee or other officers, that the whole mer- 

 chantable crop entered for premium was weighed when harvested, 

 if a grass or root crop, and when threshed or husked if a grain or 

 corn crop ; but such society may require further modes of ascer- 

 taining the merchantable amount of product, either at the time of 

 harvesting or at other times. 



Acts and Resolves, 1861. 



[Chapter 127.] 



Sect. 1. Any agricultural society or farmers' club shall have 

 power and authority to establish such regulations as it may deem 

 necessary and expedient for the preservation of peace and good 

 order of said society at its regular or annual meetings, shows, fairs 

 or exhibitions, or for the protection of the interests of the same 

 during such shows, fairs or exhibitions : provided, that such regu- 

 lations shall not be repugnant to the laws of the Commonwealth ; 

 and provided, also, that said society shall cause at least five copies 



