184 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Laws and Resolves, 1866. 



[Chapter 189.] 



Sect. 1. No agricultural society, not drawing bounty from the 

 state, shall hereafter be entitled to such bounty as allowed in 

 chapter sixty-six, section first, of the General Statutes, in case 

 the grounds and buildings for holding exhibitions of said society 

 are within twelve miles of the grounds and buildings of any other 

 society now by law entitled to such bount}\ 



Sect. 2.* Any agricultural society publishing its transactions 

 and making its returns to the secretary of the board of agriculture, 

 as provided in chapter sixt} r -six, section fifth of the General Statutes, 

 shall be entitled to a delegate to said board, under the provisions 

 of chapter sixteen of the General Statutes ; and it shall be the duty 

 of the secretary of said board to notify any society which has com- 

 plied with the above requirements, that it is empowered to choose 

 the delegate aforesaid. 



Sect. 3. The state board of agriculture shall have power to 

 fix the days on which the agricultural societies shall commence their 

 annual exhibitions. 



Laws and Resolves, 1870. 



[Chapter 258.] 

 Chapter sixty-six of the General Statutes is hereby so altered 

 and amended that no agricultural society shall be entitled to receive 

 a larger amount from the treasury of the Commonwealth, in any 

 one year, than it shall have awarded and actually paid in premiums 

 during the year last preceding. 



Laws and Resolves, 1874. 



[Chapter 182.] 

 Section five of chapter sixty-six of the General Statutes is hereby 

 amended by striking out the word "December" in the second line 

 of said section, and inserting in place thereof the word " January." 



* Repealed 1869, chap. 128. Laws and Resolves, 



