196 ARTICLE 2A.

and the Secretary of the State is hereby directed to transmit a certified
copy of this Act to the Treasurer of the United States and to the Secretary
of Agriculture of the United States.

Agricultural Fair Associations.1

An. Code, sec. 12. 1904, art. 23, sec. 17. 1892, ch. 670. 1894, ch. 420. 1906, ch. 746.

12. With the view of promoting, encouraging and fostering agricul-
ture in this State, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated
annually for the purpose of aiding the agriculture fairs now existing, or
those which may hereafter be organized in this State, to be equally divided
among said fair associations, and to be paid them by the Treasurer upon
the warrant of the Comptroller of the Treasury, by said associations com-
plying with the provisions of this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1904, art. 23, sec. 17. 1892, ch. 670. 1894, ch. 420. 1906, ch. 746.

1918, ch. 293.

13. Any county in this State, which or whose citizens shall subscribe
fer and pay up a capital stock of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars,
or shall acquire and pay for real estate and improvements thereon to the
said value of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars, and shall be duly
incorporated under the laws of this State as a fair association, upon filing
a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation, and the affidavit of the
president of such association that the stock has been fully paid up or the
property acquired and paid for the amount herein required with the Comp-
troller, shall be entitled to the benefits of this sub-title; provided, that but
one association in each county shall be entitled to the benefits derived
under this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1904, art. 23, sec. 17. 1892, ch. 670. 1894, ch. 420. 1906, ch. 746.

14. Any existing association in this State or which may be hereafter
organized desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this sub-title, is hereby
required to forward to the Comptroller of the Treasury, on before the first
Monday in December of each year, a statement, under the hand of
its president, attested by the treasurer and the corporate seal of such asso-
ciation, giving in detail the financial condition of said association for the
year immediately preceding such application.

1 The act of 1918, ch. 293, repeals and re-enacts sec. 2 of the act of 1906, ch. 746, which
in turn repealed and re-enacted the act of 1894, ch. 420, which latter was codified in the
Code of 1904, as art. 23, sec. 17. The act of 1908, ch. 240, which revised the corporation
law of the state, repealed sec. 17 of art. 23, without, however, mentioning the act of
1906, ch. 746, but on the theory that the act 'of 1908 repealed the act of 1906, the latter
was not codified in the An. Code of 1912. In view of the repeal and re-enactment of sec. 2
of the act of 1906, ch. 746, by the act of 1918, ch. 293, and of the decision of the Court of
Appeals in Baltimore v. German-American Fire Ins. Co., 132 Md. 380, it is thought
best to here codify the act of 1906 as amended by the act of 1918, appending this ex-
planation, so that those interested may reach their own conclusions.