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Sect. 7. The foregoing provisions shall not extend to any agricultural society, whici 

 has been, or hereafter may be, incorporated for any territory less than a county. 



Sect. 8. All incorporated agricultural societies may, by their officers, define and fix 

 bounds of sufficient extent, for the erection of their cattle pens and yards, and for conve- 

 nient passage ways to and about the same, on the days of their cattle shows and exhibi- 

 tions, 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 said societies, respectively. 



Sect. 9. If any person shall, contrary to the regulations of the said officers, and after 

 notice thereof, enter or pass within the bounds so fixed, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 

 five dollars, to be recovered in an action on the case, for the use of the society, by the 

 treasurer thereof. 



Sect. 10. The foregoing provisions shall not authorize such societies to occupy, or in- 

 clude, within the bounds which they shall fix for the purposes aforesaid, the land of any per- 

 son, without his consent, nor to occupy any turnpike or public highway, in such a manner as 

 to obstruct the public travel. 



Sect. 11. The officers of every such society may appoint a sufficient number of suitable 

 persons, inhabitants of the county, to act as marshals, at cattle shows and exhibitions, and 

 they shall have and exercise all the powers of constables, in relation to the preservation of 

 the public peace, and the service and execution of criminal process, within the towns, res- 

 pectively, where such shows and exhibitions may be held ; and any such criminal process 

 may be directed to them accordingly ; and they shall exercise their said office, from twelve 

 o'clock at noon of the day preceding the commencement of such shows and exhibitions, 

 until twelve o'clock at noon of the day succeeding the termination thereof, and no longer. 



[Act of Feb. 25, 1842, Chap. 31.] 

 AN ACT RELATING TO RETURNS FROM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Sect. 1. No agricultural society which, on the first day of April, in the year one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and forty-two, shall have neglected to make returns to the Secretary of 

 the Commonwealth, as required by the first and fourth sections of the forty-second chapter 

 of the Revised Statutes, shall be entitled to receive the allowance from the Commonwealth, 

 as therein provided. 



Sect. 2. No agricultural society, which shall not have made returns to the office of the 

 Secretary of the Commonwealth within the month of January, in the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and forty-three, and within the month of January in each succeeding year 

 thereafter, as required by the sections of the Revised Statutes mentioned in the preceding 

 section, shall be entitled to receive any aid from the Commonwealth. 



[Act of March 7, 1845, Chap. 111.] 

 AN ACT REQUIRING ADDITIONAL RETURNS FROM AGRICULTURAL SOCIE- 

 TIES. 

 Sect. 1.* Every agricultural society entitled to receive money from the Treasury ol the 

 Commonwealth, shall, in addition to the return of premiums paid, now required to be made 

 in the month of January, make full returns of their doings into the cilice of the Secretary of 



* It has been made a question whether this section provides for an additional return, into the Sec- 

 retary's office, to that required in the fourth section of chapter 42 of the Revised Statutes, or whether 

 the incorporation, into the old form of return, of the information >\ ecified in tin- 1 tw, is a si flxiei t 

 compliance with the law. The former appears to be the correct interpretation of the recert statute. 

 The return under the old law must be made in the month of January, and may be made on any day of 

 that month. The return under the new law may be made at any time before January, but cannot be 

 made later than the first day of that month. 



