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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. [ART. 29.

ture, all abuses, or irregularities, which he may find to exist in any department
of public affairs, with which his office is connected

When office to
expire.

SEC 7 The office hereby established shall continue for four years from the
date of the qualification of the first incumbent thereof; and shall then expire,
unless continued by the General Assembly.

The act of 1868, c. 300, entitled an act to organize and regulate
the department of labor and agriculture, pursuant to the tenth article
of the Constitution, expired by limitation in 1872; not having been
continued under the seventh section of said article.

ARTICLE XXIX.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

Organization of agricultural societies in the counties, payments by State treasurer.

1872, c 282, s 2
Organization of
agricultural
societies in the
counties

When any number of individuals shall organize themselves into
an agricultural society, or any agricultural society now organized
within any counties of this State, shall have adopted a constitution
and by-laws for their government, elected their officers, and raised
annually by the voluntary contribution of its members, any sum of

Payment by
State treasurer
of sum of money
not exceeding
$500 per annum

money which shall have been actually paid into their treasury, for
the purpose of being disbursed for the promotion of agricultural
knowledge and improvements, and that fact be attested by the affi-
davit of their president and treasurer, and filed with the comptroller
of the State, the said county society shall be entitled to receive an-
nually a like sum from the State treasurer; provided, that said
annual payment to said county society shall not exceed five hundred

Provisos.

dollars; provided further, that but one such society in any county
shall be entitled to receive such appropriation in any one year under
this section.