ADVERTISEMEINT. 



The Returns from Agricultural Societies required by the Act of 

 1845, chap. Ill, were all made for the year 1846 within the time 

 specified by that law. 



The General Court of 1847 has enacted the following law (Chap. 69): 



AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Sect. 1. Every agricultural society which shall claim the bounty of the 

 Commonwealth, according to the provisions of the first section of the forty- 

 second chapter of the Revised Statutes, shall, annually, on or before the tenth 

 day of January, file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth a cer- 

 tificate, signed by the president and treasurer of such society, specifying, un- 

 der oath, the sum actually contributed and put at interest, and then held, well 

 secured as a capital stock. 



Every such society shall, at the same time, make a full return of its doings, 

 signed by its president and secretary, embracing a statement of the expendi- 

 ture of all money, specifying the nature of the encouragement proposed by 

 the society, the object for which its premiums have been offered, and to whom 

 they have been awarded, and including all reports of committees, and all state- 

 ments of experiments and cultivation, regarded by said president and secretary 

 as worthy of publication. The return, whether in printed or manuscript form, 

 shall be marked in such manner, that those passages in the several reports and 

 statements, deemed by such officers most worthy of public notice, study and 

 application, may be easily distinguished. 



Sect. 2. The amount of bounty to which any agricultural society may be 

 entitled for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, shall be as- 

 certained by the certificate to be filed in the month of October, according to 

 the provisions of law as heretofore existing ; and, for the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and forty-eight, and each year thereafter, by the certificate pre- 

 viously filed by such society, according to the provisions of this act. 

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