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Relating to Agricultural and 



Ten or more 

 persons may 

 become a 

 corporation. 



Powers and 

 privileges. 



Associations for Encouraging Agriculture, etc. 



Sect. 18. Ten or more persons in any county, city, 

 or town, who by agreement in writing associate for the 

 purpose of encouraging agriculture or horticulture, or 

 for improving and ornamenting the streets and public 

 squares of any city or town by planting and cultivating 

 ornamental trees therein, may become a corporation by 

 such name as they assume therefor upon calling their 

 first meeting and organizing in the manner provided in 

 sections twelve and thirteen of chapter forty ; and shall 

 thereupon during the pleasure of the general court have 

 for their purposes all the rights, powers, and privileges 

 given by sections twelve to fifteen, inclusive, of said 

 chapter, and may hold real and personal estate not 

 exceeding ten thousand dollars in value. 



Farmers' 

 clubs to re- 

 ceive publica- 

 tions, etc. 



Farmers' Clubs. 

 Sect. 19. Farmers' clubs properly organized and 

 holding regular meetings shall, upon application made 

 annually in November to the secretary of the state 

 board of agriculture, receive copies of its report and of 

 its other publications, in proportion to the number of 

 their members and to the applications so made. Every 

 club receiving such copies shall annually in October 

 make returns to said secretary of its agricultural experi- 

 ments and of the reports of its committees. 



Societies, etc., 

 may make 

 regulations 

 for preserva- 

 tion of pence 

 at fairs, etc. 



Booths, etr., 

 for sale of 

 goods, not to 

 be eBtablished 



Good Order at Fairs, etc. 



Sect. 20. Any agricultural society or farmers' club 

 may establish such regulations, not repugnant to law, 

 as it may deem necessary and expedient for the preser- 

 vation of peace and good order or for the protection of 

 its interests at its regular or annual meetings, shows, 

 fairs, or exhibitions, and shall cause at least five copies 

 of such regulations to be posted in as many public 

 •places on its grounds not less than forty-eight hours 

 before the time of holding each meeting. 



Sect. 21. No person during the time of holding a 

 cattle show, fair, or exhibition, or meeting of a farmers' 



