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Relating to Agricultural and 



Forfeiture of 

 bounty. 



Premiums to 

 be ofl'ered by 

 societieB, etc. 



for trees for 

 ship timber. 



All citizens of 

 county may 

 be members, 

 etc. 



Surplus to be 

 at interest. 



To what 

 societies pro- 

 visions apply. 



society, the objects for which its premiums have been 

 offered, and the persons to whom they have been 

 awarded, and inchiding all reports of committees and 

 all statements of experiments and cultivation regarded 

 by the president and secretary as worthy of publica- 

 tion, and with such general observations concerning the 

 state of agriculture and manufactures in the common- 

 wealth as it may deem useful. 



The return shall be marked in such manner that the 

 passages deemed by such officers most worthy of pub- 

 lic notice, study, and application may be easily distin- 

 guished. 



Sect. 6. A society which neglects in any year to 

 comply with the laws relating thereto, or with the regu- 

 lations of the board of agriculture, shall not be entitled 

 to bounty in the year next succeeding. 



Sect. 7. Every society which receives said bounty 

 shall offer annually by way of premiums, or shall other- 

 wise apply for the encouragement or improvement of 

 agriculture or manufactures, a sum not less than the 

 amount so annually received, and shall offer such pre- 

 miums for agricultural experiments and in such man- 

 ner as the state board of agriculture requires. 



Sect. 8. Every society shall annually offer such 

 premiums and encouragement for the raising and pre- 

 serving of oaks and other forest trees as to it seems 

 proper and best adapted to perpetuate wnthin the com- 

 monwealth an adequate supply of ship timber. 



Sect. 9. Every such society shall admit as mem- 

 bers, upon equal terms, citizens of every town in the 

 county in which it is located, and all premiums offered 

 shall be subject to the competition of every citizen of 

 such county. 



Sect. 10. All money offered for premiums which 

 is not awarded or paid shall be put out at interest and 

 added to the capital stock of the society. 



Sect. 11. The foregoing provisions, except the pro- 

 viso in section three authorizing the state board of 

 agriculture to withhold bounty, shall not, except by 

 special enactment, extend to an agricultural society 

 incorporated for any territory less than a county. 



