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12 3

O AN ACT

/ -7

TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE,

AND TO

AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE

WS RELATING TO AaRICULTURE:

16 Vict. Cap. XI.

O TT E B F C •
PRINTED BY STEWART DERBISHIRE AND GEORGE DESBARAfST

Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

1852.

ANNO SEXTO-DECIMO

VICTORIiE REGINiE.

CAP. XI.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a Bureau of
Agriculture, and to amend and consolidate the Laws
relating to Agriculture.

[\Oth November J 1852.]

WHEREAS the improvement of Agriculture is an object Preamble,
of great importance to the people of this Province,
and whereas the erection of Central Boards and the organi-
zation of Local Societies have been found eminently useful in
promoting such improvement, but in the absence of a suitable
provision for the collection and dissemination in an authentic
form of facts and statistics relating to Agriculture, the full
benefit of these Associations is not attained, and it is therefore
expedient to provide for the establishment of a Bureau of
Agriculture in connection with one of the Public Departments ;
and it is also expedient to amend and consolidate the laws
now in force relating to Agriculture : Be it therefore enacted
by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted
and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act
passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Pro-
vinces of Upper and Lower Canada^ and for the ^Government
of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same. That from and after the passing of his Act, the Act Certain Act
passed in the Session held in the tenth and^ eleventh years of repealed.
Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to incorporate The lo & n Vict.
Lower Camda Agricultural Society, and the Act passed in the c. 60 & 6J.
same Session, and intituled, An Act for the incorporation of 13 & 14 vict.
The Agricultural Association of Upper Canada, and the Act c. 73.
passed in the Session held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years n^i^y .
ofHci* Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to establish a c,U7,

Board

Cap. U.

Bureau of Agriculture.

16 Vici.

Governor may
establish a
Bureau and
Minister of
Agriculture.

Board of Agriculture in Upper Canada^ and the Act passed
in tlie Session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her
Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to provide for the bet-
ter organization of Agricultural Societies in Upper Canada y
shall be, and the same are hereby repealed, but all Agricultural
Sooieties, Associations and Boards of Agriculture incorporated
or otherwise, which have been lawfully organized or estab-
lished under the said Acts, or any, or either of them, shall
continue as if the said Acts were still in force, except in so
far as such Societies, Associations or Boards may be altered
or affected by this Act.

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.

II. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to estab-
lish and organize a Bureau of Agriculture, which shall be
attached to one of the Public Departments, and the Head of
such Department shall be charged with the direction of the
said Bureau, and shall in respect thereof be known as the
Minister of Agriculture.

Such Minister III. The said Minister shall be ex officio Member of all
shall be ex Boards of Agriculture which now are or hereafter may be es-
tablished in this Province. It shall and may be lawful for the
Members of the Board of Agriculture to elect from among
themselves a President and Vice President at their first meeting
and every annua), meeting thereafter.

officio Presi-
<jent of all
Boards of
Agriculture.

records of Pa'
tents for In'
Tentions.

And keep the IV. The said Minister shall also receive all applications,
drawings, descriptions, specifications and models for or rela-
ting to Patents for Inventions in this Province, and shall keep
the records thereof ; and all Acts now in force relating to
Patents for Inventions and which direct any thing to be done
by or through the Provincial Secretary, shall be held to have
directed the same to be done by or through the said Minister.

And be Chair- V. The said Minister shall also be a Member of the Board
oTr °^ f ""'^ ^^ Registration and Statistics, in the place of the Inspector
tion, &c. " General and shall be the Chairman thereof, and shall under
the general direction of the said Board, have charge of the Cen-
sus and other Statistical Returns.

He shall col-
lect statistics
relating to
Agriculture.

VI. It shall be the duty of the said Minister to institute in-
quiries and collect useful facts and statistics relating to the
Agricultural interests of the Province, and to adopt measures
for disseminating or publishing the same in such manner and
form as he may find best adapted to promote improvement
within the Province, and to encourage immigration irom other
Countries ; and he shall annually prepare and submit to Par-
liament within ten days after the opening of each Session there-
of a detailed and succinct Report of his proceedings.

Agrl
publ
ex o\
the)

vir.

Vict.

1852.

Bureau of AgricuUurc.

Cap. 11.

of Her
Ihe bet-
'anada^
;ullural
porated
r estab-
1, shall

pt in sf»
altered

to estab-
shall be
Head of
on of the
n as the

)er of all
lay be es-
:ulfor the
m among
St meeting

iplications,
for or rela-
shall keep
relating to
to be done
leld to have
I Minister.

f the Board

[le Inspector

shall under

J of the Cen-

institute in-
bating to the
,pt measures
manner and
improvement

3n Irom other
ubmit to Par-
Session therc-
igs.

Yll.

munications
from the Bu«
reau.

VII. All Boards of A^ricu-ture, Agricultural Societies, As- All Toanis o/
sociations, Municipal Councils, Mechanics' Institutes, Public Agriculture,
Institutions, and Public OHicers in this Province, shall promptly official cn'm-^*^
answer official communications from the said Bureau of Ag-
riculture, and shall make diligent cfTorts to supply correct in-
formation on all questions submitted to them respectively ; and
any Officer of any such Board, Society, Association, Council,
or other Public Institution who shall refuse, or wilfully neglect

to answer any question, or to furnish any information relating
to the Agricultural interests, or the Statistics of this Province,
whenever required so to do, either by the said Minister, or by
any person duly authorized by such Minister in that behalf
shall for every such offence incur a penalty of ten pounds
currency, which penally shall be recoverable by any per!?on
suing for the same before any Court of competent jurisdiction
and sliall be paid to Her Majesty.

BOARDS OF AGRICULTURE.

VIII. Whereas a Board ot Agriculture has ])ocn established in Board of Agri-
Upper Canada under the authority of an Act of tiie Legislature [JtedTorK"
of this Province, intituled. An Act to establish a Board <?/^]3&i4Vc
Agriculture in Upper Canada, and it is expedient to provide 73.

for the establisimient of a similar Board in Lower Canada,
and to simplify and reduce into one Act all provisions for the
future operation and management of the said Boards respec-
tively — 13e it enacted. That it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council to constitute and appoint a Board of Agriculture
for Lower Canada, to be composed of eight Members, exclusive
of the ex officio members thereof ; and it shall be the duty of
the Lower Canada Agricultural Society established under and
by virtue of the Act tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapter sixty
hereby repealed, to take immediate steps to Vv'ind up its
affairs, and so soon as the said Board sliall be constituted, all
the property moveable and immoveable which may remain
and belong to the said Society after payment of its just debts.
shall be transferred to and become the property of tlie said
Board, and all actions or suits now pending or which may be
brought by or against the said Soeiety before the said Board
shall be constituted, shall proceed to termination as if the said
Act tenth and eleventh Victoria had not been repealed.

IX. The Presidents, for the time being, of the Agricultural Presidents of
Associations hereinafter mentioned, and all Professors of Agricultural
Agriculture in chartered Colleges, Universities and other to be ex officio
public educational institutions, shall respectively be Members Members of
ex officio of the Board for that section of the Province in which E^'^'ds.
they reside.

X. Four Members of each Board shall annually retire and Retirement
cease to be Members thereof, unless re-elected ; and the names ^'^om Office oi»
of the first four Members, who shall so retire, shall on or before S^iJJrT^*"

the

Cap. U.

Bureau of Agriculture.

16 Vict.

the First day of October, in tiie year of our Lord ono thousand
eight hundred and fifty-thn.'o, be ascortainod by lot in such
manner as the said Boards may respectively determine, and
the names of the r-'tiring Members shall forthwitii be published
in the Agricultural Journals of the section of the Province in
which they reside.

As to reinnin- XI. The remaining Members (except ex officio Members
in? Members viio shall b(? exempt from the operation of this and the
Office."'' previous section) shall vacate their seats at the expiration
of a year from the retirement of the said first four Members, and
so on in rotation, each seat being vacated every alternate year,
but retiring Members may continue to exercise all their func-
tions until their successors have been duly elected as herein-
after provided.

County A<?ri. XII. The Countv Agricultural Societies in Upper and Lower
cultuial Socie- Canada respectively,shall, at their annual Meetings in February,
uatVMeml'ers "^ ^'^® ^^^^ ^^ ^^^'^ Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fiffy-
of Boards of four, and at each annual Meeting thereafter, nominate four tit
Agriculture, and proper persons to be Members of the said Boards of Agri-
culture respectively, and shall forthwith transmit the names of
the persons so nominated to the Bureau of Agriculture, and the
four persons who shall have been nominated by the greatest
number of Societies shall be Members of the said Boards re-
spectively, in the place of the Members vacating their seats as
aforesaid. Vacancies which may at any lime happen through
death, resignation or otherwise, may be filled up by the Gover-
nor in Council.

Minister to XIII. In case of an equality of votes for one or more of the

<3ecide in case persons SO nominated, the Minister of Agriculture shall decide

votes." which shall be the Member, and he shall cause the persons so

nominated, and the Boards to which they are nominated

respectively, to be immediately notified of the result.

Members of XIV. It shall not be lawful for eitherof the said Boards to
Boards to re- pay or allow any sum to a Member thereof, for acting as such

Member, except the amount of his actual necessary expenses

in attending the regular meetings of the Board, but each of the
said Boards may appoint a Secretary from among themselves
or otherwise, and may pay him a reasonable salary for his ser-
vices.

ceive only
their ex-
pejises.

Holding of re-
gular Aleet-

«iigs»

XV.

The regular Meetings of the said Boards shall be held

pursuant to adjournment, or be called by the Secretary' at the
instance of the President or Vice-President, or upon the writ-
ten ret[uest of any three Members, and at least five days' notice
of such Meeting shall be given to each Member, and it shall
be lawful for the Board, in the absence of the President and
Vice-President, to appoint a Chairman 'pro tempore., and five
Members shall be a quorum.

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names of
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Boards re-
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re, and five

XVI.

1852.

Bureau of Agriculture.

Cap. 11.

XVI. It shall be the duly of llie said Boards to receive the DuUMor
Reports of Agricultural Societies, anl before granting the cer- B'^*>'J'»«
tilicates hereinafter mentioned, to see that they have complied

with the law ; to take measures, with the approbation of the
Minister of Agriculture, to procure and set in operation a mo-
del, illustrative or experimental farm or farms in their respec-
tive sections of the Province, and in connection with any public
school, college or university, or otherwise, and to manage
and conduct the same ; to collect and establish, at Toronto and
Montreal respectively, an Agricultural Museum and an Agri-
cultural and Horticultural Library ; to take measures to obtain
from other countries animals of new or improved breeds ; new
varieties of grain, seeds, vegetables or other agricultural pro-
ductions ; new or improved implements of husbandry or new
machines which may appear aaapted to facilitate agricultural
operations ; and to te^t the quality, value and usefulness of such
animals, grain, seeds, vegetables or other productions, imple-
ments or machines, and generally to adopt every means in their
power to promote improvement in the agriculture of this Pro-
vince ; and the said Boards shall keep a Record of their
respective transactions, and shall from time to time publish, in
such manner and form as to secure the widest circulation
among the Agricultural Societies and farmers generally, all
such Reports, Essays, Lectures and other useful information
as the said Boards respectively may procure and adjudge suit-
able for publication ; and, if the said Boards or either of them
shall publish a monthly Journal, or adopt as their channel of
communication with Agricultural Societies the Agricultural
Journals now published in Upper and Lower Canada respect-
ively, it shall be the duty of all Agricultural Societies receiving
any share of the Public Grant to give at least one month's notice
of the time and place of holding their Exhibitions in the Jour-
nals so published or adopted by the said Boards respectively.

XVII. The said Boards shall transmit to the Bureau of They shall
Agriculture a copy of all their resolutions. By-laws or other for- bSS Vop^s
mal proceedings, immediately after the adoption thereof, and of their By-
€very resolution, By-Law, or other proceeding of the said Boards ^^^^i *«<:.
respectively which may involve an expenditure of money to an

amount exceeding ten pounds, shall not be passed except with
the assent of a majority of the members thereof.

XVIII. Each of the said Boards shall be and become a Body And shall be
Corporate, and shall have power to acquire and hold land and ^fg,^""
personal property, and to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the

same.

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS.

XIX. Whereas an Agricultural Association has existed for Recital,
some time past in Upper Canada, and by means of annual
exhibitions of the productions of that section of the Province,

has effected much good and whereas it is expedient to organize

Cap. II.

Bureau of Agriculture.

IC Vict.

Agricultural
Affiociutions

tOI.tftltutl'll.

Direrfor* of
Agricultural
Aittiociutiuiis.

a similai' Assofitition in Lower Canada, andtomake provision
for the future support and rnanflgoinunt oltlio said Assiociationn :
Be it therefore enacted att follows :

The Members of the Boards of Agriculture, the Presidents and
Vice-Presidents of all lawfully organized County Agricultural
Societies, and all subscribers of Five Shillings annually, shall
in their respective sections of the Province, be and constitute
an Agricultural Association for that section.

XX. The Members of the Board of Agriculture and the
Presidents and Vice-Presidents of County Societies, (or any
two Members whom a Coimty Society may have appointed
Directors instead of its President and Vice-President) shall be
the Directors of such Agricultural Association, and it shall be
lawful for the Agricultural Association to elect a Treasurer.

Annual Fairs XXI. The said Associations shall each hold an Annual
or c.xhibitioas pajj qj Exhibition, which shall be open to competitors from any
*° * '* '• part of the Province, and the said Directors shall hold an annual
meeting during the week of the annual Exhibition, and may
at such meeting elect a President and Vice-Presidents, and
appoint the place for holding the next meeting and Exhibition
of the Association, and may make rules and regulations for the
management of such Exhibition, and may appoint a local
Committee at the place where such Exhibition is appointed to
be held, and prescribe the powers and duties of the said
Committee.

Board of Agri- XXII. The Board of Agriculture shall be the Council of the
culture to be Association, with full power to act for and on behalf of the
the Assoda-'* Association between the annual meetings thereof, and all
tion. grants of money, subscriptions, or other funds made or appro-

priated to or for the use of the Association, (except money
collected by or granted to any local Committee for the local
expenses of an Exhibition) shall be received by and expended
under the direction of the said Board, and the Secretary of the
Board shall be ex officio Secretary of the Association.

Contracts, XXIII. All contracts and all legal proceedings by, with, or

&c.,be najitle concerning the Association, shall be made and had with the

wjth Board m Board of Agriculture in its Corporate capacity, and no other
Its Corporate .. ° ^ . ' ^i-*^uiii--j

capacity. contracts, agreements, actions or proceedmgs shall bind or
affect the Association.

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whic
fjed,
and
out

Municipal!- XXIV. It shall be lawful for the Municipality of any City,
ties may grant Town, Village, County, Township or Parish in this Province,
of Agnc'uim- ^^ grant money in aid of the Agricultural Association for that
rai Associa- part of the Province to which the Municipality belongs,
tioos.

AGRICULTURAL

10 Vict.

provision
ciutioni* :

ilcnts and
ricullural
illy, Hhall
constitute

and the
I, (or any
appointed
»l) shall be
it shall be
jasurer.

in Annual
rs from any
I an annual
and may
idents, and
Exhibition
ions for the
int a local
ippointcd to
bf the said

uncilof the
rhalf of the
of, and all
le or appro-
cept money
)r the local
id expended
retary of the
on.

by, with, or
id with the
tid no other
lall bind or

of any City,
lis Province,

ition for that

[longs.

CULTURAL

127.

1653, Bureau of AgncuUurc. Cop. 11.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES, UPPER CANADA.

XXV. WlH'rrfiN tho Act to provid«^ for the belter organi- Act h fc i
znlion of AKfleultiirnl SocirtieM in Upprr Canada, pnf<sed ^^l**^ '• '*
(luring the now liiMt SeHMJon, re(|ulreNNome amendments, and it

in ex|M'dient to re*cnnet the Hame, and to embody therein the
HQjd umcndrnvnlM : He it therefore enacted ax follows :

COUNTY SOCIETIES.

A (>()unly Agrienltnnil Socitily may bo organized in each of County, Agri-
iho CounlieN of Upper (/anachi, whenev«!r fifty persons shall culiuial So-
bfcome MeiiiherN thereof, by signing n Deelaration in the form •^****"'
of the Heliediih; A to ihis Act annexed, and subscribing each
not IcM than Fiv(3 Shillings annually to the Funds of the said
Society, mid a true ropy <if tlm said Declaration shall within
one month after being so signed be transmitted to the Board of
Agriculture.

XXVI. TIm' object of the said Sociof .'s, and of the Town- Their object
ship or Branch Socielies in connection therewith, shall be to ami duties.
encourage Irriprovenient in Agri(;nlture, by holding Meetings

for dlseuNsion, and for hearing Le(;tureH on subjects connected
with the theory and practice of improved Husbandry, by pro-
moting the circulation of the Agricultural Periodicals published
in the Province ; by importing or otherwise procuring Seeds,
Plants and Animals of new and valuable kinds; by ofl'ering
prizes for Essays on Questions of Scientifu! En(|uiry relating to
Agriculture, arid by awarding Pr«'mlurns for Excellence in the
raising or introdu(!tion of Stock, the invention or improvement
of Agricultural Iniph'ments and Ma(^liines, the production of
grain and all kinds ol vegiitables, and generally for excellence
in any Agricultural Production or Operation; and it shall not
be lawful to expr-nd tho Funds of the Societies, derived from
subseriptlons ol Members, or lli<^ Public. Orant, for any object
inconsistent with those above mt^ntiomal ; and the Directors of
every sm-li C(»un1y So{!i(!ty at any meeting which shall be
called by wrilt' ' notice as lienMnafter mentioned, and in
which notM'C the ohjcel of the; mreting shall have been speci-
fied, shall have full power to make, alter and repeal By-laws
and Rules fj»r the regulatitm of such Society and the carrying
out of its objects.

XXVil. The said Societies shall hold their annual Meeting Annual Meet-
in the month of February in each year, and shall at such Meet- ji."|'^"~jj ^^
ing, elect a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and officers.
Treasurer, and not more than seven Directors.

XXVIII. The Prc»idcnt« of the several Township Agricultu- J^f^^S ''^'
ral Societlos, within the County, shall, in addition to those be- societies, &c.,
fore menlionetl, be ex officio Directors of the County Society, and to be Directors
the laid Officers and Directors shall and may for the year next Jleir"^^ ^"

following

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Meetings of
Officers and
Directors.

Annual
Reports of
proceedings.

following the Annual Meeting, and until the election of their
successors, exercise all the powers vested in the County-
Society by this Act.

XXIX. The Meetings of the Officers and Directors shall be
held pursuant to adjournment, or called by written notice to
and given by authority of the President, or in his absence
the Senior Vice-President, at least one week before the day
appointed ; and at any Meeting five shall be a quorum.

XXX. The said Officers and Directors shall in addition to
the ordinary duties of management, cause to be prepared, and
shall present at the Annual Meeting, a Report of their proceed-
ings during the year, in which shall be stated the names of all
the Members of the Society, the amount paid by each set op-
posite his name, the names of all persons to whom Premiums
were awarded, the amount of such Premiums respectively,
and the name of the Animal, Article or thing in respect of
which the same was granted, together with such remarks upon
the Agriculture of the County, the improvements which have
been or may be made therein, as the Directors shall be enabled
to offer ; there shall also be presented to the said Annual
Meeting, a detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements
of the Society during the year, which Report and Statement, if
approved by the meeting, shall be entered in the Society's
Journal, to be kept for such purposes, and signed by the Presi-
dent or a Vice-President, as being a correct entry, and a true
copy thereof certified by the President or Secretary for the time
being, shall be sent to the Board of Agriculture, on or before
the first day of April following.

Reports shall XXXI. The County Society shall receive the Reports of the
to Board?'"^'* Township or Branch Societies, and shall transmit them to the
Board of Agriculture, with such remarks thereon as may en-
able the said Board to obtain a correct knowledge of the pro-
gress of Agricultural Improvement in the County.

Duty of OiS- XXXII. It shall be the duty of the said Officers and Direc-
cers with res- tors to answer such queries, and give such information as the
fa^rs! &c.^from Board of Agriculture, or Minister of Agriculture may from
Board of Agri- time to time, by Circular Letter, or otherwise, require, touching
culture, &c. tj^g interests or condition of Agriculture in their County, and
generally to act as far as practicable upon the recommenda-
tions of the said Boar J.

TOWNSHIP SOCIETIES.

Branch Agri- XXXIII. A Township or Branch Agricultural Society may

cultural Socie- jjg organized in each Township of any County, or in any two

ships. " or "lore Townships together, whenever a sufficient number of

persons shall become Members, by signing a declaration in the

form of the Schedule A. to this Act annexed, and subscribing

each

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Board

ture, t

Reports

then las

other

Board

B toth

Justice

«ame, s

the Trej

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their
ounty

all be
tice to
bsence
le day

Ltion to
;d, and
roceed-
;s of all
set op-
3miums
jctLvely,
ispect of
•ks upon
ch have
enabled
Annual
rsements
iment, if
Society's
tie Preei-
d a true
the time
or before

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Cap. U.

•ts of the
em to the
may en-
the pro-

nd Direc-
ion as the
nciay from

touching
)unty, and

mmenda-

)ciety may
in any two
number of
tion in the
subscribing
each

each not less than Five Shillings annually to the funds thereof,
to raise an aggregate sum of not less than Ten Pounds, and a
true copy of the said Declaration certified by the President or
Vice-President of such Society, siiall be forthwith transmitted
to the County Society.

XXXIV. The said Societies shall hold their Annual Meeting Annual Meet-
in the month of January in each year, and shall elect a Presi- i^s^ thereof.
dent, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, and not fewer

than three or more than nine Directors.

XXXV. The said Officers and Directors shall prepare and Rejwris by
present to the Annual Meeting of the Society, a Report of their ^^'^"^ Officors.
proceedings during the year, in the same manner as herein-
before directed for County Societies, and containing information

under the same heads ; and shall transmit a true copy thereof,
certified by the President or Vice-President, to the Secretary of
the County Society, in time for the Annual Meeting thereof in
the month of February.

As to Holding
of Exhibitions
in cases where
there may be
a County So-
ciety and
Township
Societies in
the same
County.

Proviso.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

XXXVI. The Exhibition of the County Society shall be
held at the County Town, but it shall be lawful for the Direc-
tors of the County Society, from time to time if they think fit,
on the Petition of the Directors of the Society, of any Township
(or Townships united for the purposes of this Act) other than
the Township in which the County Town stands to appoint an
Exhibition of the County Society, to be held within such other
Township or United Townships, and in such case the Town-
ship Society so petitioning, shall not hold an Exhibition for
that year, but the same shall merge in the Exhibition of
the County Society, and the Funds of the Township or
Branch Society for that year's Exhibition, shall be paid over to
the Treasurer of the County Society : Provided that any
Township or Branch Society shall not forfeit any right to
a share of the Public Grant for not making a full Report
for such year ; Provided also, that the Directors of the Society
of the Township in which the County Exhibition shall be held,
fihall for that year be ex officio Directors of the County Society.

XXXVII. When the President and Secretary of the AstoGorem-
Board of Agriculture shall certify to the Minister of Agricul- mentgr^t to
ture, that any County Society has sent to the said Board ties!"*^ *^*^'
Reports and Statements as required by this Act, for the year

then last previous, and shall also certify that the Treasurer or
other Officer of the said Society, has transmitted to the said
Board an Affidavit, which may be in the form of the Schedule
B to this Act annexed, and may be sworn to before any
Justice of the Peace who is hereby authorized to receive the
same, stating the amount subscribed for that year, and paid to
the Treasurer of the County Society by the Members thereof,

and

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Proviso.
Proviso.

and by the several Township Societies of the said County, it
shall be lawful for the Governor of this Province to issue his
Warrant in favor of such County Society, for a sum to be taken
out of any unappropriated moneys in the hands of the Receiver
General, equal to three times the amount appearing by the said
affidavit to be in the hands of the Treasurer : Provided, that
no Grant shall be made unless Twenty-five Pounds be first
subscribed and paid to the Treasurer ; and provided that the
whole amount granted to any County Society shall not exceed
Two hundred and fifty pounds in any year ; and provided also
that it shall not be necessary that any County Society should
have sent Reports and Statements as above mentioned to the
Board of Agriculture, in order to obtain the Government allow-
ance under this section for the first year in which it shall be
established, but it shall be sufficient that such Society has
complied with the other requirements of this Act.

Proviso.

XXXVIII. Provided always. That in the case of Counties
united for judicial purposes, a County Society may be formed
As to Counties for the said United Counties, or for any one or two of such
Counties, but the amount granted from the Public Fund to the
Society for any two of such United Counties, shall not exceed
two hundred and fifty pounds, and the amount granted to the
Society for any one of the said United Counties, shall not
exceed one hundred and fifty pounds.

united for Ju
dicial pur-
poses.

Grant to

Township

Societies.

Proviso.

XXXIX. Every Township or Branch Society, organized ac-
cording to this Act, and sending a report of its proceedings to
the County Society, as hereinbefore required, shall be entitled
to a share of the grant to the County Society, in proportion to
the amount which shall have been subscribed by the Members
of such Township or Branch Society, and deposited with the
Treasurer of the County Society, on or before the first day of
May, in each year, as compared with the amounts so deposited
by the other Townsiiip and Branch Societies of the said County ;
and the sum so deposited by any Township or Branch Society
shall be repaid, along with its share of the Public Grant, so
soon as the said grant sliall have been received by the County
Society : Provided always, that not more than three fifths of the
sum so received by any County Society shall be subject to
division among Township or Branch Societies ; And provided
that the declaration mentioned in section thirty-four, shall be
deemed a sufficient report for the first year in which any Town-
ship or Branch Society may have been organized ; And pro-
vided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be constiTied as
admitting any Member of a Township Society in virtue of his
subscription thereto, and without further subscription to the
County Society to any of the privileges of a Member of such
County Society.

A^^'^^'it. ■^^' ^^^ Board of Agriculture shall receive from govem-

AgncuJtiire to j^^^.^^ ^^^ p^y over to the County Societies, the Public Grants

We,

selves
Legislat
" Count
tural So(
of
Treasure
(any mej
notice ii
annual

J his
aken
;eiver
! said
[, that
; first
at the
xceed
d also
should
to the
allow-
hall be
ty has

ounties
formed
jf such
d to the
. exceed
id to the
liall not

lized ac"
dings to
entitled
lortion to
^lembers
[with the
st day oi
Jeposited
[county ;
Society
Irant, so
County
Ihs of the
ibject to
Iprovided
1 shall be
ly Town-
Lnd pro-
*trued as
fue of his
to the
fr ol such

govem-
|ic Grants
to

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Cap. 11.

to which they are respootivoly enlitleJ, and it shall be lawful pay Public
for the said Board to retain, for the use of the Agricultural As- ^'^''"t'^
sociation, one tenth part of all such grants. oun y N)-

cieties.

XLI. AnyTh

)r or other Officer of any County, Town- Penalty on

ship or Branch S Jc^oty, who shall make affidavit that a sub- Treasurers ia
scription, or any sum ot money, has been paid to him for the
Society, when it has not bi.Mjii so paid, or who shall return any
such subscription, shall forfeit and pay to Her Majesty the sum
of Ten Pounds for every such offence, and shall be guilty of
perjury and be held liable to ail the penalties with which the
law may visit that crime.

XLII. The several County Societies organized according to County So-
the provisions of this Act, or of the said Act of the 14th and 15th cieties to be
Victoria, intituled, yl» Act to provide for the better organiza-z^^^l'
tion of Agricultural Societies in Upper Canada^ shall be and
become Bodies Corporate, with power to acquire and hold land
as a site for Fairs and Exhibitions, or for a School Farm, and
to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same ; and any Town-
ship or Branch Society lawfully organized as aforesaid, may at
any regular Meeting adopt a Resolution that the said Society
is desirous of being incorporated, and upon filiag the said resolu-
tion with the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, such
Society shall thenceforth be and become a Body Corporate, and
shall have like powers with County Societies.

XLIII. It shall and may be lawful for any County or Town- School-Fanns
ship Society, or the Municipal Council of any County or jjj^^^® ^***"
Township of Upper Canada, to purchase and hold land for the
purpose of establishing a School-Farm to instruct pupils in the
science and practice of Agriculture, and any Society and any
Municipal Council may purchase and hold such School-Farm
conjointly or otherwise, and may conjointly or otherwise make
all necessary rules and regulations lor the management thereof,
provided that not more than one hundred acres of land shall
be so held by any Society or Council, whether conjointly or
otherwise.

SCHEDULE A.

We, whose names arc subscribed hereto, agree to form our- gchedulo re-
selves into a Society, under tlu; provisions of the Act of the ferre'i to iu
Legislature, [title and date of this Act.,) to be called the s* 34.
"■ County (Township or Branch, as the case may be,) Agricul-
tural Society of the County of " (or Township
of ) ; and we hereby severally agree to pay to the
Treasurer yearly, while we continue Members of the Society,
(any member being at liberty to retire therefrom upon giving
notice in writing to the; Secretary, at any time before the
annual meeting, of his wish so to do,) the sums opposite our

respective

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respective names, and we further agree to conform to the Rules
and By-Laws of the said Society.

Schedule re*
ferred to in
8.38.

Names.

£.

SCHEDULE B.

County of )

to wit : 5

I, A. B., of the Township of , Treasurer of

the County Agricultural Society of , make oath and

say, that the sum of has been paid into my hands,

since the first day of February last, by the Township Agri-
cultural Societies of the said County, as and for the Members'
subscription for this year ; and that the sum of
has been paid into my hands, as subscriptions for this year, by
members of the said County Society ; and that the said sums,
making in the whole the sum of , now remain in

my hands, ready to be disposed of, according to law.

Sworn to before me
this day of

A. D. 185 .

A. B.
C. D.
Justice of the Peace for the
County of

Quebec : — Printed by S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats,

Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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