OFFICERS OF WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1887. President. CASPER M. SANGER, MILWAUKEE, A. A. ARNOLD, GALESVILLE, Ex-Pres. W. S. A. S. Vice-Presidents. SETH FISHER, CENTER. A. W. VAUGHN, LODI. J, M. TRUE, BARABOO. W. A. JOHNSTON, GALESVILLE. J. G. J. CAMPBELL, MILWAUKEE. Secretary. T. L. NEWTON, BEAVER DAM. (P. O. Address-Wisconsin State Agricultural Rooms, Madison, Wis.) Treasurer. CYRUS MINER, JANESVILLE. Additional Members of the Board. C. M. CLARK, WHITEWATER. H. C. ADAMS, MADISON. A. LUDLOW, MONROE. F. C. CURTIS, ROCKY RUN. N. D. FRATT, RACINE. S. D. HUBBARD, MONDOVI. GEO. J. SCHOEFFEL, MILWAUKEE. PROF. T. C. CHAMBERLAIN, BELOIT, Pres. Wis. Academy Sciences, Arts and Letters. PROF. E. A. BIRGE, MADISON, Sec. Wis. Academy Sciences, Arts and Letters. LAWS RELATING TO THE SOCIETY. The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society was organized March 8, 1851, and incorporated by CHAPTER 5, LAWS OF 1853. Section 1. The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society is hereby declared a body politic and corporate, and by that name it shall be known in all courts and places whatsoever. Section 2. The objects of the society being to promote and improve the condition of agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical, manufacturing and household arts, it shall be allowed for those purposes only, to take, hold, and convey real and personal estate; the former not exceeding ten thousand dollars. Section 3. The said corporation shall possess all the powers and privileges conferred, and be subject to all the liabilities imposed upon corporations by the revised statutes of this state, so far as the same may be applicable. Section 4. For the purpose of organizing said society under this charter and for the transaction of such other business as may come before it, the executive committee of the society may call a meeting of the same at such time and place as they may deem proper; first giving due notice thereof. CHAPTER 40, LAWS OF 1854. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the executive committee of said Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, 'to keep an accurate account of the manner of expenditure of said sum of money hereby appropriated and transmit the same together with the vouchers therefor to the governor of this state, in the month of January in each year, to be by him laid before the legislature. Section 3. It shall be the duty of said executive committee of the]Wisconsin State Agricultural Society to collect, arrange and collate all information in their power, in relation to the nature, origin, and preparation of soils; the cultivation and growth of crops; the breeding and management of stock; the application and character of manures and fertilizers; the introduction of new cereal and other grains; and other agricultural subjects; and report the same, together with a statement of their own proceedings, to the governor of this state, in the month of January in each year, to be by him laid before the legislature. CHAPTER 53, LAWS 1958. Section 3. The principal officers of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, shall have full jurisdiction and control of the grounds on which the society may exhibit, and all of 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 the 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 arresting 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 shall 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, or under, or through said fence, or by fraudulently receiving and using the tickets or badge of another, or passing the gate-keeper 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. JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 7, SESSION LAWS OF 1866. Resolved by the assembly, the senate coneurring, That the icoms on the north side of the west wing of the capitol, to-wit: The rooms just made vacant by the removal of the attorney general, and the superintendent of public instruction, be prepared by the superintendent of public property, for the use of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, and that the said society be and hereby is allowed the use of the same until otherwise ordered by the legislature. CHAPTER 95, LAWS OF 1870. Section 1. Joint stock associations formed under the laws of this state for the encouragement of industry by agricultural and industrial fair and exhibitions, may purchase and hold such real and personal property as shall be necessary for fair grounds, and such property while used exclusively for such fairs and exhibitions, shall be free from taxes. Provided that the quantity of land so exempt shall not exceed forty acres. CHAPTER 159, LAWS OF 1875. Section 2. The superintendent of public property is hereby authorized to furnish the office of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society with stationery upon the order of the secretary of said society, the same as other officers in the capitol are supplied. CHAPTER 65, LAWS OF 1877. Section 1, provides: That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any citizen of any other state from becoming a member or officer of any agricultural society or industrial association which is now organized or may hereafter be organized under or by virtue of any law of this state CHAPTER 219, LAWS OF 1877. AN ACT to donate the cereals and other centennial exhibits made by the state, to the State Agricultural Society. Section 1. The cereals and other seeds and glass globes in which said cereals and seeds were exhibited by the state at the centennial exposition; one agricultural map of the state; one case samples fine wool; one picture of the state capitol, and three pictures of centennial buildings, are hereby donated to the above named society, to be by them kept in the agricultural rooms in the capitol. CHAPTER 199, LAWS OF 1880. Section 1. The secretary of the State Agricultural Society is hereby authorized to procure for the use of his office the necessary amount of postage stamps or stamped envelopes for the payment of the postage of the official correspondence of his department. The account therefor shall be audited by the secretary of state upon the presentation thereof in the manner hereinbefore provided, and paid out of the state treasury. CHAPTER 194, LAWS OF 1885. Section 1. There is hereby annually appropriated to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society the sum of four thousand dollars. Provided, that no warrant shall be drawn by the secretary of state for the payment of the sum of money hereby appropriated, except upon the presentation of a sworn statement, signed by the president and secretary of the said Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, certifying that the sale of intoxicating liquors has been prohibited and prevented upon the fair grounds of said society during the year for which the appropriation is made. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the several agricultural societies entitled to the state aid of one hundred dollars in this state, to send their president or other representative to the state fair, where the annual election of officers is held, there to act on committee of award, and to cast the vote for the county in the aforesaid election. Section 3. On arrival of the president or other representative at the state fair he shall report to the secretary thereof, and on the certificate of the secretary of his attendance and performance of the duties named in section 2 of this act, the treasurer shall pay to him two dollars per day for the time he has been in attendance, not exceeding five days, and six cents per mile, one way, over the nearest traveled route from his home to the place where the state fair is held. Section 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 435, LAWS OF 1885. AN ACT to amend chapter 320 of the general laws of 1883, "an act to provide for the printing and distribution of the reports of state officers, departments and institutions." Section 1. Sections 7, 8 and 9, of chapter 320 of session laws of 1883, are hereby severally amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. There shall be printed annually by the state printer, and on the order of the commissioner of public printing, the following documents: 1. Thirteen thousand copies of the transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, together with abstracts of the reports of the county and other agricultural societies, and such other matter pertaining to the industry of the state as shall be deemed important; provided, the number of pages shall not exceed five hundred. 2. Sixteen thousand five hundred copies of the transactions of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, together with such other abstracts of reports of county and other horticultural societies, and such other matters pertaining to fruit growing and other horticultural interests of the state as shall be deemed important; provided the number of pages shall not exceed three hundred. 3. Eighteen thousand copies of the transactions of the State Dairymen's Association, and such other matters pertaining to the dairy interests of the state as shall be deemed most important; provided the number of pages shall not exceed two hundred and fifty. 4. Eighteen thousand copies of the report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University; provided the number of pages shall not exceed two hundred. Section 8. Thirteen thousand volumes of said report shall be bound in cloth, uniform in style with volumes previously published, each volume to contain such part of one copy of each of the reports designated in the preceding section as the compiler shall select, the size of said joint report not to exceed one thousand pages; and shall be distributed as follows: Thirty copies to each member of the legislature; one hundred copies to the State Historical Society; twenty-five copies to each county agricultural society and district industrial association which embraces two or more counties, and furnish the state agricultural society a report of its proceedings; one |