the trustees of Cornell university and the board of control of the agricultural experiment station at Geneva, in pursuance of said act of congress, which said moneys are hereby appropriated for the purposes herein stated.

§ 310. Receipt and apportionment of moneys for the promotion of agriculture. All the moneys already appropriated, or hereafter appropriated, for the promotion of agriculture in any one year, and all the revenues which have been, or shall be received by the comptroller, and all the moneys received by him from the tax collected from racing associations pursuant to article twenty of the membership corporations law, or hereafter otherwise collected from racing associations, corporations or clubs, shall constitute a fund, which shall be annually disbursed on behalf of the state for the promotion of agriculture and domestic arts, for the promotion of education along agricultural lines and for the promotion of the improvement of the breeding of cattle, sheep, horses and other domestic animals at the various fairs throughout the state, and shall be apportioned and distributed as hereinafter prescribed, among all the various county agricultural societies, the American institute of the city of New York, and among the other various town or other agricultural societies, or agricultural fair associations, or agricultural expositions, or agricultural clubs which have received moneys from the state and disbursed moneys for the state for such promotion, during either one of the three years, nineteen hundred and five, nineteen hundred and six, or nineteen hundred and seven, under and by virtue of section eightyeight or eighty-nine of the agricultural law as it then existed. Such apportionment and distribution shall be made by the commissioner of agriculture in the following manner: Of such moneys already appropriated, or hereafter appropriated, there shall be apportioned and distributed to such county agricultural societies, American institute of the city of New York, and such various town or other agricultural societies, or agricultural club, or agricultural fair associations, or agricultural expositions, hereinbefore mentioned, in proportion to the actual premiums paid during the previous year by such agricultural societies, agricultural fair associations, agricultural expositions, agricultural club, and the American institute of the city of New York, exclusive of the premiums paid for trials and tests of speed, skill and endurance of man or beast. No such American institute of the city of New York, or such county agricultural society, or such town or other agricultural society, or such agricultural fair associations, or such agricultural exposition, or such agricultural club shall receive any more moneys under the provisions of this article in any one year, than it

actually paid out in premiums the next preceding year, exclusive of the premiums paid for trials, or tests of speed, skill *endurance of man or beast, and in no event shall any such American institute of the city of New York, or such county agricultural society, or such town or other agricultural society, or such agricultural fair association, or such agricultural exposition, or such agricultural club receive under the provisions of this article, in any one year for premiums hereafter to be paid by any society, association, club or exposition, any sums of money exceeding four thousand dollars. Any such county agricultural society, town or other agricultural society, or agricultural club or fair association, or agricultural exposition, organized under the laws of the state of New York, which shall fail or neglect to hold an annual fair, and file its annual report as provided by this article, with the commissioner of agriculture, as herein provided, for two consecutive years, shall forfeit all of its chartered rights, including any privileges or moneys it might thereafter otherwise be entitled to under the provisions of this article. All agricultural clubs, societies, agricultural fair associations, agricultural expositions, or the American institute of the city of New York, entitled to receive any portion of the moneys appropriated by the state, must hereafter on or before the fifteenth day of December, in each year, file a statement, duly verified by the president and treasurer or secretary, showing the amount of premiums paid at the last annual fair, exclusive of premiums paid for trials or tests of speed, skill or endurance of man or beast, which statement together with vouchers for moneys paid as premiums shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of agriculture, otherwise such society, fair association, exposition, club, or the American institute of the city of New York, shall forfeit its right to participate in the distribution of such moneys for premiums paid for such year. No other agricultural society now or hereafter organized which is not entitled to receive moneys under this section, except a county agricultural society, shall be entitled to receive any moneys under the provisions of this article, until it shall have first filed annual reports in the office of the commissioner of agriculture, as herein before provided, and paid in actual cash premiums for agricultural, mechanical and domestic products at least fifteen hundred dollars a year for three successive years, exclusive of the premiums paid for trials, or tests of speed, skill or endurance of man or beast. When any such other agricultural society has filed such annual reports and paid such premiums for three successive years as herein provided and to the satisfaction of the commissioner of agriculture, then the said commissioner of agriculture may thereafter allow such society to draw moneys under and by

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virtue of the provisions of this article. All such county agricultural societies, town or other agricultural societies, or fair associations, or agricultural expositions organized under the laws of the state of New York which have received moneys from the state for premiums paid for the promotion of agriculture and domestic arts, for the promotion of education along agricultural lines, or for the promotion of the improvement of the breeding of cattle, sheep, horses and other domestic animals, shall be deemed as agents for the state in disbursing such moneys and shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such moneys paid as provided in this article, from an annual appropriation which shall not be less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Any agricultural society, agricultural club or agricultural exposition which shall knowingly permit any immoral, lewd, obscene indecent show or exhibition, use, or ingly permit the use of, any gambling device, device, instrument or contrivance in the operation of which bets are laid or wagers made, wheel of fortune, or the playing or carrying on of any game of chance, upon the grounds used by it for, or during, an annual meeting, fair or exhibition, shall thereupon forfeit its rights to any moneys it would or might be entitled to receive under the provisions of this article; and it shall be the duty of the president and secretary or treasurer of every agricultural society, agricultural club, or agricultural exposition entitled to receive money under the provisions of this article, to certify, in its annual report to the commissioner of agriculture, executed under oath, on or before the fifteenth day of December, in each year, that at the last annual meeting, fair or exhibition held by or under the direction of such society, club or exposition, it did not knowingly permit any immoral, lewd, obscene or indecent show or exhibition by whatever name known, or use or knowingly permit the use of, any gambling device, device, instrument or contrivance in the operation of which bets were laid, or wagers made, any wheel of fortune, or the playing or carrying on of any game of chance, upon the grounds used by it for, or during such last annual meeting, fair or exhibition, which report shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of agriculture. If the president and secretary or treasurer of any agricultural society, agricultural club or agricultural exposition, entitled to receive moneyз under the provisions of this article, shall neglect or refuse to make and file such certificates, such society, club or exposition shall thereupon be deemed to have forfeited all its rights to any moneys it might otherwise be entitled to receive under this article for such year, but this shall not be construed to prohibit horse racing, or tests or trials of skill.

8 311. Distribution of moneys appropriated for

certain agricultural societies. Of all moneys appro priated in the regular appropriation bill during any one year by the legislature for distribution among the agricultural societies by the commissioner of agriculture, the said commissioner may distribute to the agricultural societies entitled to partake thereof an amount to each one, on or after the first day of October, in the said year, from the moneys due said society not to exceed fifty per centum of the amount of premiums paid by the said society at its annual fair held during said year. Any balance or balances shall be distributed as provided by section three hundred and ten of this chapter.

§ 312. Annual report to the commissioner of agriculture and state society. The president and treasurer of any agricultural society which receives any money of the state or acts as the agent of the state in the distribution of money of the state as premiums, shall annually before the fifteenth day of December, transmit to the commissioner of agriculture a detailed account of the expenditure or distribution of all such moneys as shall have come into their hands during the preceding year, and of such other moneys as they may have received from voluntary contributions for distribution as premiums, stating to whom, and for what purpose paid, with the vouchers therefor. The presidents of the several county societies and of the American institute shall annually transmit in the month of December, to the executive committee of the New York state agricultural society, all such reports or returns as they are required to demand from applicants, for premiums, together with an abstract of their proceedings during the year, which shall be examined by such executive committee, and they shall condense, arrange and report the same, with a statement of their own proceedings, to the legislature on or before the first day of March in each year.

§ 313. Lease of grounds of agricultural societies and corporations. Any agricultural society or corpora tion, owning or possessing grounds in a county of this state having a population of more than three hundred thousand and less than six hundred thousand may lease such grounds for any lawful purpose except running races not inconsistent with the use thereof for the purposes of the society or corporation, for such time or times as said grounds may not be needed by any such agricultural society or corporation for its own purposes.

§ 314. Manufacture and sale of imitation maple sugar and syrup prohibited. 1. No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer or expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance of maple syrup, which is not pure maple syrup, nor shall any per

son manufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup as and for maple syrup which is not pure maple syrup.

2. For the purpose of this article the term "maple sugar shall be deemed to mean sugar made from pure maple sap or pure maple syrup, and the term "maple syrup" shall be deemed to mean syrup made from pure maple sap.

§ 315. Branding and labeling of maple sugar and syrup mixtures. No person shall manufacture, sell or expose for sale, any compound or mixture as and for sugar which shall be made up of maple sugar mixed with any other sugar or any other substance without branding or labeling the said sugar with a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made up. No person shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale or offer for sale any compound or mixture as syrup which shall be made up of maple syrup mixed with any other syrup or ingredient without branding or labeling said syrup with a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made up. This shall not be construed to apply to a syrup or syrups manufactured and sold for medicinal purposes only.

§ 316. Association of farmers; powers of. Any association of farmers, residing in any neighborhood, town or county in this state, now, or hereafter to be organized, and acting under a constitution and by-laws adopted by themselves for their guidance, which shall be filed in the clerk's office of such town or county and which are not inconsistent with the laws of this state, is hereby authorized to lease and maintain grounds and structures for the exhibition and sale of the products of their farms or their skill, and for the instruction and recreation of its members and visitors. Any such association shall have authority to let, for rent, locations on their leased grounds to shopmen and persons wishing to furnish suitable refreshments for victualing members and visitors; to license peddlers to sell on their grounds articles of merchandise, not forbidden to be sold by any law of this state without license from the state; and in the name of such association and upon the action and direction of its officers, to sue for and collect the stipulated sums for such rentals and licenses, and to enforce the observance of its rules and regulations by the several members of its association. And such association is hereby empowered to issue certificates of indebtedness in amounts of five dollars each, providing that the whole amount shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, which they may sell at a price not below the par value thereof, for the purpose of raising money for the erection of buildings, or for such other improvements as may be deemed necessary by a majority of the members of such association.