Nebraska advertiser., 1858-11-11

ding section curing the continuance OF
this act, annually to offer and award pre-
miums for the Improvement of soil, crops,
Iillages, manures, implements, stocks, ar
ticIes Of domestic Industry, and such 9TH
er articles, productions and improvements
as they may deem proper, and 70 perform
all such acts a. they may deem best cal
culated 10 promote the agricultural and
manufacturing interests of the county and
Of the Territory. And it shall also be
their duty so to regulate the an cunt OF
premiums and the different grade of the
same as to enable farmers of small as
well as large means to compete therefor,
and in making their awards special refer
ence shall be had 10 the profits which
may accrue or be likely to accrue from
improved modes of raising the crops. or
of improving the soil, or stock, or of the
fabrication of the articles thus offered
with the intention that the premiums
shall be given for the most economical
mode of improvement. And all persons
offering to compete for premiums or i'm
proved modes of tillage, or the production
of any crops or other articles, shall be
required before such premiums are adj
Judged, to deliver to the awarding COM
mittee a full and correct statement of the
process Of such mode of tillage or produc-
ton, and the expense and value of the
same, with a view of showing accurately
the profits derived or expected to be deri-
we'd therefrom.
SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of each
county society TO publish annually a list Of
the awards, and an abstract of the Trea-
surer's account in a newspaper in the
county if there be one. and if none then
in the nearest newspaper to said county,
and to make a report Of their proceedings
during the year and a synopsis of the
awards for the improvement in Agricul-
ture and Manufactures, together with an
abstract OF the several descriptions of
these improvements, and also to make a
report of the condition of agriculture in
their county, which report shall be made
out in accordance with the rules and re-
gulations of the Territorial Board of
Agriculture, and shall be forwarded to
the Territorial Board at their annual
meeting in each year, and no subsequent
payment shall be made from the county
treasury unless a certificate is presented
to the clerk from the President of the
Territorial Board showing that such re-
ports have been duly made.
SEC. a. That Thomas Gibson, Harrison
Johnson, A. d. Jones, e. Estabrook, J..
M. Thayer, Christian Bobst, Robert w.
FuTnas, Jesse Cole, S. A. Chambers.
Jerome Hoover, Mills S. Reeves, Broad
Cole, j. G. Lincoln, Harlan Baird, Joel
T. Griffin. and Z. H. Chaplin. be, and
they are hereby created a body corporate
with perpetual succession In the manner
hereinafter described, under the name
and style of the Territorial Board of Agri-
culture.
SEC. S. 1t shall be the duty of said
Board or a majority of them to meet at
Omaha city as soon after the passage of
this act as a majority of them may agree
upon, and organize by elecling a Presi-
dent, Secretary and Treasurer, and such
other officers as they may deem necessa-
ry; also to determine by lot the time that
each member shall serve, so that the term
Of service of one half of the members
shall expire annually on the day of the
annual meeting. And the President
shall have power to call meetings of the
Board whenever he may deem it expe-
, dient.
SEC. 6. There shall be held at some
central point in the Territory, to be agreed
upon by the board at their session, an an
nual meeting of the board, together with
the President of each county society or
delegate therefrom duly authorized. who
shall for the time being be ex-oficio
members Of the Territorial Board of
Agriculture, for the purpose of deliberat-
il G and consulting as to the wants, pros
poets and condition of the agricultural in
r terests throughout the Territory; and at
: such annual meeting the several reports
from the subordinate societies shall be
delivered to the President of the Terrific
o rial Board. and the said President and
> delegate shall at this meeting elect suit
= able persons to fill all vacancies in the
= Territorial Board of Agriculture.
SEC. z. And it shall be the duty of
said board to make an annual report to
the General Assembly of the Territory,
embracing the proceedings Of the board
: for the past year and an abstract of the
proceedings of the several subordinate
: societies, SO as to give a general view of
the condition of agriculture Throughout
q the Territory, accompanied by such re-
commentators as they may deem impor-
tant and useful.
Sec. 8. That all county agricultural
societies which may be organized under
! this act, be and the same are hereby de.
clared bodies corporate and polite, and
as such shall be capable of suing aud be.
ing sued, and capable of holding in fee
simple such real estate as they NAV pur.
chase OF receive by donation, not to ex.
coed eighty acres Of land and the build
ings thereon.
SEC 9. That all deeds, conveyances
and other agreements made 10 and By
such county agricultural societies for th,
purchase of real estate, shall be good ant
valid in law and equity. and shall vest il
y a title in fee simpl3 in such societies t
a said real estate.
l. SEC. 10. In all cases when such coun