SOUTHERxN CULTIVATOR. 
355 
application to be made only when autharized by said so- 
ciety, at annual meeting thereof, by a vote of not less than 
two-thirds of the legal members of said society present at 
such meeting, notice of the intention to vote for such ap- 
plication having been published in three of the newspa- 
pers printed in said county cnce a week for three months 
proceeding such annual meeting, 
^ 8. The officers of any society organized under the 
provisions of this Act, shall be jointly and severally liable 
for all debts due from said society contracted while they 
are officers thereof, provided a suit for the collection of the 
same be brought within one year after the debt shall be- 
come due and payable. 
^ 9. The President, Secretary and Treasurer of said 
society shall annually, on or before the first day of Feb- 
ruary, make out and transmit to the Secretary of the 
State Society at Albany, a statement of the trans- 
actions of said society for the year, giving a full de- 
tail of the receipts and expenditures thereof, with a list of 
premiums awarded, and to whom and for what purpose, 
and the same shall be subscribed and sworn to by said 
officers, before some person authored to take the acknow- 
ledgment of deeds, as being a just and true statement 
within the spirit, true intent and meaning of this act. 
^ 10. Every society formed under this Act shall pos- 
sess the power and be subject to the provisions and re- 
strictions contained in the third title of the 18th chapter 
of the revised statutes. 
§ 11. All societies formed under chapter three hundred 
and thirty-nine of session laws, passed June eighth, one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, are hereby de- 
clared to be as valid as if formed under this Act for the 
year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five and may 
recognize under this law at any time. 
^ 12. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
State of New York, ) 
Secretary’s Office. ) 
I have compared preceding with the original law on the 
file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is 
a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said 
original law. 
> Given under my hand and seal of office, at the 
city of Albany, this thirtieth day of April, in 
[l. s ] the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 
five. A, G. Johnson, 
Dep. Secretary of State, 
CIRCULARS FROM THE DEPARTMENT— FORM 
OF APPLICATION TO THE STATE, &c. 
State Agricultural Rooms, ) 
Albany, 18 . 5 
Sir ; — The Executive Committee have been much em- 
barrassed in preparing their Annual Report to the Legis- 
lature, by the neglect of the officers of many county so- 
cieties, in furnishing a statement of their proceedings, and 
of the state of agriculture in their respective counties. It 
is hoped that the officers will make their reports for the 
transactions, immediately after their Annual Fair, giving 
a full account of their proceedings and of the state of agri- 
culture generally ; and the proceedings of their annual 
meeting in a subsequent return, with a list of the officers 
chosen for the ensuing year. 
These return are in addition to those required to 
to be made to the Comptroller, as provided in the annex- 
ed circular from the Comptroller’s Office. 
The returns should be directed to the Secretary of the 
State Agricultural Society. 
Respectfully yours, 
B. P. Johnson, Cor, Secretary. 
To ) 
President County > 
Agricultural Society. ) 
Comptroller’s Office, ) 
Albany, Feb., 1859. 5 
gly . — The imperfect and insufficient manner in which 
many of the officers of the county agricultural societies 
have made the annual statements and accounts, required 
to be transmitted to this office, has induced the Comp- 
troller to forward to you for their information and guid- 
ance, the accompanying extracts from the laws of 1841 
and 1855. By the law of 1855, the President, Secretary 
and Treasurer of each Society are, on or before the first 
day of February, to make out and transmit to the Secre- 
tary of the State Agricultural Society a statement of the 
transactions of the Society for the year, giving a full detail 
of the receipts and expenditores thereof, with a list of the 
premiums awarded, and to whom and for what purpose, 
and the same shall be subscribed and sworn to by said 
officers. 
By the second section of the law of 1841, the manner 
in which moneys are to be drawn upon the affidavits of 
the President and Secretary is given : The Secretary of 
the State Agricultural Society will transmit to the Comp- 
troller the reports received by him in pursuance of the 
law of 1855, with his certificate that the said reports are 
in conformity with said act. 
The laws undoubtedly contemplate that the foregoing 
requirements should be fully complied with by each so- 
ciety, before the Comptroller will be authorized to draw 
his warrant in its favor for any further portion of the State 
appropriation ; and also, that the society shall havejaised, 
by voluntary subscription, independent of any previous 
balance or subscription, and to be expended for the bene- 
fit of the society in the same year, a sum at least equal to 
that to be received from the State. This must be made to 
appear by the affidavits of the President and Treasurer, 
which must accompany the draft of the President for the 
State appropriation— forms for each of which are append- 
ed. Very respectfully 
your obedient servant, 
FORM OF AFFIDAVIT OF PRESIDENT AND TREASURER, AND 
ORDER TO DRAW MONEY. 
County, ss: 
A. B., President, and C. D,, 
Treasurer of the County Ag- 
ricultural Sociely, being duly sworn, depose, and each for 
himself says, that during the present year and since the 
last annual account rendered to the Comptroller, there has 
been raised by voluntary subscription, for the use and 
benefit of said society, and actually paid in or secured to 
be paid, the sum of dollars, ex- 
clusive of any previous subscription, or unexpended bal- 
ance of any former year. Dated at the 
day of 185 . 
Subscribed and sworn ^ 
this day \ 
of 18 , r 
before me, J 
Treasurer of the State of New YorJct—Vay to the or- 
der of C. D,, Treasurer of the county 
agricultural society, pursuance of the Act, chapter 169, 
Laws of 1841. 
Dated at the day of 
18 . 
A. B,, 
President of the County Agricultural society. 
AN ACT TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURE, PASSED MAY 5tH, 1841. 
^ 2. When the New York State Agricultural Society, 
and any county agricultural society now formed, or which 
may hereafter be formed in this State, or the New York 
Instflite, in the city of New York, shall raise, by volun- 
