ment within the spirit, true intent, and meaning of this act. 24. General powers. § 10. Every society formed under this act shall possess the power and be subject to the provisions and restrictions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 25. Former societies ratified. § 11. All societies formed under chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of session laws, passed June eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, are hereby declared to be as valid as if formed under this act for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and may reorganize under this law at any time. 26. Managers may appoint policemen; their powers. (Laws of 1859, ch. 36.) SECTION 1. The board of managers or executive committee of any agricultural or horticultural society of this state, is hereby authorized to appoint as many citizens of this state policemen, as shall be necessary for their exhibitions, whose duty it shall be to preserve order within and around the grounds of said society, to protect the property within said grounds, to eject all persons who shall be improperly within the grounds of said society, or who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay the fee or observe the rules prescribed by the society. Said policemen shall have the same power, during the time said exhibitions shall continue, that a constable may have by law, in serving criminal process and making arrests, and in addition may arrest any person for the commission of any offence mentioned in section two. 27. Penalty for wilful injury to property of exhibitors. § 2. Any person who shall wilfully injure or destroy the property of exhibitors, visitors or lessees on the fair grounds, or shall hinder or obstruct the officers or police in the discharge of their duties, or shall wrongfully or maliciously gain admission to the fair grounds contrary to the rules of said society, or without paying the established fees, during any fair of such society; or any person who shall enter into or upon said grounds without permission from a "general superintendent" duly appointed by the board of managers of such society, and having such grounds in charge by its authority; or who shall break through, injure or deface the fence or buildings constituting the enclosure to such fair grounds when not in use for exhibitions; or who shall deface, break into or enter any building or buildings upon such fair grounds or forming a part of the enclosure thereto, when not in use for exhibitions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace of the county in which the crime shall have been committed, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or to imprisonment in the jail of such county for a term not exceeding sixty days, or to both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court before whom the offender may be tried; and all fines imposed and collected under this section shall be immediately paid into the treasury of such agricultural or horticultural society for its use and benefit. [Thus amended by Laws of 1869, ch. 326.] 28. County and town not liable to police. §3. No town or county shall be liable to pay said policemen for services rendered under this act. 29. Managers may prohibit trade and performances. (Laws of 1862, ch. 284.) SECTION 1. In addition to the powers now vested by statute in the board of managers of any agricultural or horticultural association, the officers of such association shall have power to regulate and prevent all kinds of theatrical, circus or mountebank exhibitions and shows, as well as all huckstering or traffic in fruits, goods, wares and merchandise of whatever description, for gain, on the fair days, and within a distance of two hundred yards of the fair grounds of said association, if in the opinion of said officers, the same shall obstruct or in any way interfere with the free and uninterrupted use of the highway around and approaching such fair grounds; and the police employed by any such association shall possess the same power for a space of two hundred yards from said grounds, as is now vested in them by law within said grounds and be under the same control of the officers of the association within that space; and the same fines and penalties shall be incurred for any violation of the rules and regulations of said officers of any such association within two hundred yards of the fair grounds, as is now by law incurred for any violation of the rules and regulations within the grounds of any such association. III. CULTIVATION OF GRAPES, COTTON, ETC. 30. Manner of formation. (Laws of 1865, ch. 234.) Any three or more persons may organize and form themselves into a corporation in the manner specified and required in and by the act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes," passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the purpose of propagating, cultivating and developing the different varieties of the grape, and the manufacture of wines and brandies therefrom, and cultivating sugar-cane, cotton, rice, tobacco, indigo and other products of the earth, for preparing the same for market, and for transporting and disposing of the same. Every corporation so formed shall be subject to all the provisions and obligations contained in the aforesaid act, and the several acts amendatory of the same, so far as they are or may be applicable, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges conferred by said act and amendatory acts; except that such corporations shall not be confined in their operations to the counties in which their certificate shall be filed. IV. FORMATION OF AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, 31. Title changed of ch. 40, Laws of 1848. (Laws of 1866, ch. 838.) SECTION 1. The title of the act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes," passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred an forty-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical, chemical, agricultural, horticultural, medical or curative, mercantile or commercial purposes. 32. What certificate shall state. § 2. At any time hereafter, any three or more persons may form a corporation for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacturing, mining, mechanical, chemical, agricultural, horticultural, medical or curative busi ness, may make, sign and acknowledge, before some officer competent to take acknowledgment of deeds, and file the same in the office of the clerk of the county in which the business of the company shall be carried on, and a duplicate in the office of the secretary of state, a certificate in writing in which shall be stated the corporate name of said company and the objects for which it shall be formed, the amount of its capital stock, the number of shares of which said stock shall consist, the term of its existence not exceeding fifty years, the number of its trustees and the names of those who shall manage the concerns of the company for the first year, and the names of the town or city and county in which the operations of said company shall be carried on. 33. May hold stock in certain companies. §3. It shall be lawful for any company heretofore or hereafter organized under the provisions of this act, or the act hereby amended, to hold stock in the capital of any corporation engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing or transporting such materials as are required in the prosecution of the business of such company so long as they shall furnish or transport such materials for the use of such company and for two years thereafter, and no longer; and also to hold stock in the capital of any corporation which shall use or manufacture materials, mined or produced by such company; and the trustees of such company shall have the same power with respect to the purchase of such stock and issuing stock therefor as are now given by the law with respect to the purchase of mines, manufactories and other property necessary to the business of manufacturing, mining and other companies. But the capital stock of such company shall not be increased without the consent of the owners of two thirds of the stock to be obtained as provided by |