Xo. 4.] AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION. 331 



]May in the j-ear eighteen hundred and sixty-six", in the third and fourth 

 hnes, and inserting in place thereof the words: — thirty-first day of Decem- 

 ber in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, — by striking out the word 

 "twelve", in the sixth line, and inserting in place thereof the word: — 

 twentj^-five, — by striking out the word "October", in the fourteenth line, 

 and inserting in place thereof the word : — August, — and by striking out 

 the word "twelve", in the twenty-fifth hne, and inserting in place thereof 

 the word: — twenty-five, — so as to read as follows: — Section 1. Every 

 incorporated agricultural society which was entitled to bounty from this 

 commonwealth before the thirty-first day of December in the year nineteen 

 hundred and thirteen, and every other such society whose exhibition 

 grounds and buildings are not within twenty-five miles of those of a society 

 which was then entitled to bounty, and which has raised by contribution 

 of individuals and holds, as a capital appropriated to its uses, one thousand 

 dollars, invested in an interest bearing pubUc or private security or in real 

 estate, buildings and appurtenances for its use and accommodation, shall, 

 except when otherwise determined by the state board of agriculture as 

 provided in section four, be entitled to receive annually in August from the 

 commonwealth, two hundred dollars, and in that proportion for any greater 

 amount 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 pre- 

 miums during the j^ear last preceding, or otherwise expended for the en- 

 couragement and improvement of agriculture, with the approval of the 

 state board of agriculture, nor, in any event, more than six hundred dollars. 

 If there is only one incorporated agricultural society in any county, it shall 

 be entitled to receive said bounty notwithstanding its exhibition grounds 

 and buildings are within twenty-five miles of a society entitled to said 

 bounty; and, after having received said bounty, it shall not be deprived of 

 the right to receive the same bj'- reason of the subsequent incorporation of 

 another society within the same county. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [A-pproved 

 April 2, 19U. 



ANNUAL REPORT "AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS." 



Chapter 291. 



An Act relative to the printing and distribution of the annual 

 report of the state board of agriculture. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section seven of chapter nine of the Revised Laws as 

 amended is hereby further amended by striking out Unes thirty-four to 

 forty, inclusive, and inserting in place thereof the following: — Of the state 

 board of agriculture, not more than ten thousand copies. Such parts of 

 said report as the secretary of said board may deem best adapted to pro- 

 mote the interests of agriculture may be pubhshed separately, for general 



