14 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Sec. 18. There is hereby appropriated, annually, out of any money in the 
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars to each 
County Society which shall be organized under the provisions of this chapter. 
Sec. 19. The County Board of Supervisors of the different counties of this 
State are hereby authorized to levy a tax upon the taxable property of their 
respective counties annually, not exceeding the sum of four hundred dollars 
in any one year, for the purpose of encouraging and promoting agriculture and 
the mechanic arts. 
Sec. 20. Said tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other 
taxes are, and when collected shall be paid over to the treaaurer of the Agri¬ 
cultural Society of said county on his application for the same. 
Sec. 21. All money so received from the county shall be expended under 
the directions of the proper officers in the purchase of suitable grounds, erect¬ 
ing buildings, fencing, and improving the same for the use of said society, and 
for the purposes specified in section fourteen of this chapter. 
Chapter 53, Acts of a General Nature of 1858. 
As amended February 15th, 1859. 
Section 1. In all cases when the citizens of a county, or of two counties 
jointly, shall or may have organized a County Agricultural Society, not ex¬ 
ceeding one in each county, by the adoption of a constitution and the choice of 
the ordinary officers, they shall have all the power of a corporation and body 
politic, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, prosecute and de¬ 
fend, to final judgment and execution in any court of law or equity, and may 
purchase and hold any real and personal estate which shall be necessary to 
best promote the objects of such association, and vffiich estate shall be exclu¬ 
sively devoted to such objects. Said Societies shall also have power to sell and 
convey any and all such real estate, said conveyance being executed by the 
President and Secretary of such Society. All such land and property shall 
be free from taxation while used as aforesaid by such Societies. 
Sec. 2. All such Societies shall be open and free alike to all the citizens of 
of a county who may wish to become members thereof, and shall comply with 
the regulations and pay the prescribed fees. They shall hold annual elections 
for the election of their officers, and the same shall be duly notified by publi¬ 
cation of notice in some newspaper of the county, or some county adjoining, 
in the absence of any in the proper county. They may adopt such by-laws as 
may be required to carry out the purposes of the Society, and may adopt a 
corporate seal and change the same at pleasure. Their records shall be care¬ 
fully kept by their Secretary, and may be read in evidence in any court when 
the interests of such Society are concerned. 
Sec. 3. The principal officers of such Societies, and also of the State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, shall have full jurisdiction and control of the grounds on 
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