Horticultural Societies. 13 



in real estate, buildings, and appurtenances for its use 

 and accommodation, one tliousand dollars, as a capital 

 appropriated for its uses, shall, except when otherwise 

 determined by the state board of agriculture as pro- 

 vided in section three, be entitled to receive in the 

 month of October annually, out of the treasury of the 

 commonwealth, two hundred dollars, and in that pro- 

 portion for any greater sum so contributed and put at 

 interest or invested ; but no society shall receive a 

 larger amount in one year than it has awarded and paid 

 in premiums during the year last preceding, nor more 

 than six hundred dollars. 



Sect. 2. Every society which claims bounty shall g,ai|^ijfg 

 annually, on or before the tenth day of December, file fl°e""ertmcate 

 in the office of the secretary of the board of agriculture 

 a certificate signed by its president and treasurer, speci- 

 fying under oath the sum so contributed and put at 

 interest or invested, and then held so invested or well 

 secured as a capital stock. 



Sect. 3. The amount of bounty to which a society Amount of 



bounty. 



is entitled for any year shall be ascertained by the cer- state board 



„, , , . T T . may -withhold 



tificate last filed by it under the preceding section, same. 

 But a society shall not receive bounty in any year, if 

 the state board of agriculture, having first given such 

 society full opportunity to be heard in relation to its 

 financial affairs and general management, so determines 

 by a two-thirds vote of the whole number of its mem- 

 bers present at its annual meeting, and by its secretary 

 notifies the treasurer of the commonwealth thereof on 

 or before the first day of September in such year. 



Sect. 4. Every society receiving bounty shall make Societies may 



1 • /. 1 T •! • i? make rules, 



such rules and regulations for the distribution thereof etc., for dis- 

 as shall, in its opinion, best pi'omote the improvement bounty. 

 of agriculture ; subject, however, to the restrictions of 

 sections six to ten inclusive. 



Sect. 5. Every such society shall annually, on or to make 

 before the tenth day of January, make a full return of turns, with 



. .,,. .Til passages, etc., 



its doings, signed by its president and secretary, to the marked, 

 secretary of the board of agriculture, embracing a 

 statement of the expenditure of all money, specifying 

 the nature of the encouragement proposed by the 



