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distribution, the expense of such pubhcation to be met out of the appro- 

 priation for printing the report. 



Section 2. Section eight of said chapter nine, as amended by chapter 

 four hundred and twentj^-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 

 eight, is hereby further amended Dy striking out lines eleven to thirteen, 

 inclusive, and inserting in place thereof the following. — - Each member of 

 the general court and the clerk of each branch thereof shall also be entitled 

 to receive, upon application, not more than twenty-five copies each of such 

 parts of the annual report of the state board of agriculture as may be pub- 

 lished separately in accordance with the preceding section, — ^ so that the 

 last paragraph of said section eight will read as follows • — Each member 

 of the general court and the clerk of each branch thereof shall also be en- 

 titled to receive, upon application, not more than twenty-five copies each 

 of such parts of the annual report of the state board of agriculture as may 

 be published separately in accordance with the preceding section, seven 

 additional copies of the report of the board of health, and of the report of 

 the bureau of statistics of labor; five additional copies of the report of the 

 secretary of the board of education, and of the report of statistics of manu- 

 factures. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 April 3, 1914. 



POULTRY PREMIUM BOUNTY. 



Chapter 298. 



An Act to encourage and improve the breeding op poultry. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1 . Section one of chapter four hundred and twenty-eight of the 

 acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter five 

 hundred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, 

 is hereby further amended by striking out said section, and inserting in 

 place thereof the following new section : — Section 1 . The sum of two 

 thousand dollars shall be paid annually from the treasury of the common- 

 wealth to the board of agriculture, which shall be known as a poultry 

 premium bounty, and shall be used by the said board to encourage and im- 

 prove the breeding of poultry. Said bounty shall be distributed by said 

 board among the poultry associations hereinafter designated, during the 

 month of August in each year, in proportion to the total amounts paid out 

 by such associations, respectively, during the year ending June thirtieth, 

 as hereinafter provided, in state premiums for such breeds and strains of 

 poultry as the said board shall consider most worthj- of encouragement, 

 and the sum so distributed shall be used bj^ such associations for the pur- 

 pose of enabhng them to hold annual exhibitions of poultry and for the pay- 

 ment of premiums only. The board may make such rules as it may deem 

 suitable for carrying out the provisions of this act; and am' part of said 



