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which the Society may exhibit, and of all the streets, and alleys, and other 
grounds adjacent to the same, during all such exhibitions, so far as may be 
necessary to preserve and keep good order, and so far as may be necessary to 
exclude therefrom all other exhibitions, booths, stands, or other temporary 
places for the retail or sale of any kind of spirituous or fermented liquors, or 
other article or articles that they might deem objectionable or offensive to said 
exhibition. The President of any such Society, or in his absence, any Vice- 
President acting in his stead, shall have the power to appoint any necessary 
policemen to assist in preserving the peace, quelling any disturbance or arrest¬ 
ing offenders and conveying them to jail for trial; and all such policemen thus 
appointed shall be vested during the continuance of such exhibition with the 
ordinary powers and authority of common constables, and be entitled to similar 
fees for any services rendered or duty performed. Any person or persons who 
willfully, and without leave, enter any fair ground during an exhibition, that 
are duly enclosed with a proper fence not less than six feet high, either by 
climbing over, under, or through said fence, or by fraudulently receiving and 
using the tickets or badge of another, or by passing the gate-keepers without 
the proper payment and compliance with the rules of said grounds, shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court, 
shall be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars; 
and, in case of non-payment, to imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
one nor more than ten days. Any such offender may be tried before any justice 
of the peace or police justice, most convenient to be found. 
Sec. 4. That all properly organized County Agricultural Societies as afore¬ 
said, shall be entitled to an annual appropriation of one hundred dollars each 
from the State treasury ; Provided , They have complied with the following con¬ 
ditions :—1st. That they have held an annual fair or exhibition during the year 
in question.—2d. That an amount of not less than one hundred dollars has 
been received by said Society during the year by the sale of memberships and 
admission tickets, subscriptions, &c., and bona fidely paid into their treasury 
in cash.—3d. That they have, through their Executive Committee or Secretary, 
made up and published in some newspaper in the county, or county adjacent, 
a condensed report of their principal acts and doings for the year, setting forth 
their official organization, their principal meetings, a report of their fair, 
showing the number of entries, the amount of money received and from what 
source, together with the amount paid out for premiums and for other purposes. 
Also a full statement of the entire receipts and disbursements of the Society 
for the year, showing from whence all sums were received, and to whom paid, 
and the correctness of the same verified by the oath of the Secretary, two 
certified copies of which report to be deposited, the one with the Secretary of 
State, and the other with the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, by 
the thirty-first day of December in each year. 
Sec. 5. It shnll be the duty of the Secretary of State, within ten days after 
the said thirty-first day of December, to issue an order upon the State Treas- 
