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the execution of the duties that shall be required of him ; and to pay the same 

 to him, not exceeding the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per 

 annum." 



Mr. Henry Colman, the Agricultural Surveyor appointed under this author- 

 ity, published four Reports, which had a wide circulation in the country, and 

 attracted favorable attention abroad. The Resolves were repealed, and the 

 office discontinued, by a Resolve of 1841 (chap. 14). 

 The laws now in force, relating to the subject, are the following ; viz. 



[Revised Statutes, Chap. 42.] 

 OF AGRICULTURAL CORPORATIONS. 



Section 1. Every incorporated agricultural society, which shall have raised or may 

 hereafter raise, by contribution of individuals, and put out at interest, on public or private 

 security, the sum of one thousand dollars, as a capital slock appropriated for the uses of 

 such society, shall be entitled to receive, iu the month of October, annually, out of the treas- 

 ury of the Commonwealth, the sum of two hundred dollars, and in that proportion annually 

 for any greater sum so contributed and put at interest, as a capital stock; provided, that no 

 agricultural society shall receive from the treasury more than six hundred dollars in any one 

 year. 



Sect. 2. Any agricultural society, formed within any county or counties, wherein there 

 is no incorporated society for the same purpose, and which shall raise and put out at inter- 

 est, as a capital stock, not less than one thousand dollars, for the uses of such society, shall 

 receive, on application to the Legislature, an act of incorporation, iu the usual form, and 

 with the customary rights and powers; and, after such incorporation, the society shall have 

 all the privileges, secured to other agricultural societies, on complying with the terms and 

 provisions herein contained : provided, that no agricultural society shall have the benefits of 

 this section, unless the same be formed in a count}', or in an association of counties, includ- 

 ing a population of not less than twenty-five thousand inhabitants. 



Sect. 3. Every agricultural society, which shall claim the said allowance out of the 

 public treasury, shall, in the month of October, annually, file in the office of the Secretary 

 of State a certificate signed by the president and treasurer of such society, specifying under 

 oath the sum actually contributed, and put at interest, and then held by them well secured 

 as a capital stock ; and a warrant shall be drawn for the sum to which such society may be 

 entitled. 



Sect. 4. Every agricultural society, which shall receive the said allowance from the 

 public treasury, shall offer annually, by way of premiums, or shall apply otherwise, at their 

 discretion, for the encouragement or improvement of agriculture or manufactures, a sum not 

 less than the amount annually received, as aforesaid, out of the public treasury; and they 

 shall also transmit to the office of the Secretary, in the month of January, annually, a state- 

 ment of their proceedings in relation to the expenditure of such moneys, specifying the 

 nature of the encouragement proposed by the society, and the objects for which their pre- 

 miums have been offered, and to whom they were awarded ; and shall accompany the same 

 with such general observations, concerning the state of agriculture and manufactures, in the 

 State, as they may deem important or useful. 



Sect. 5. All moneys offered for premiums, which shall not be awarded or paid, shall be 

 put out at interest, and added to the capital stock of each agricultural society. 



Sect. G. Every agricultural society, which shall receive the said public allowance, shall 

 offer, annually, such premiums and encouragement, for the raising and preserving of oaks, 

 and other forest trees, as to them shall seem proper, and best adapted to perpetuate, within 

 the State, an adequate supply of ship timber. 



