Page:1889 Territory of Dakota Session Laws.djvu/65

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AGRICULTURE.

§ 9. Reports of kindred associations.] Said district boards of agriculture shall append to and publish with their respective reports the annual report of the Territorial Entomologist and such other reports or essays connected with agriculture, horticulture, manufactures or the domestic arts, as in the judgment of said board the interests of the Territory require; said annual reports and appended essays not to exceed seven hundred printed pages, and one thousand copies of said report shall be published annually in pamphlet form, and the same shall be distributed jointly by the presidents of the district boards, and the President of the Territorial, Horticultural and Forestry Association, and a sufficient amount of money is hereby appropriated out of the Territorial Treasury to pay for publishing the same.

§ 12 Sale of liquor prohibited.] Whoever shall keep any shop, booth, tent, wagon, vessel, boat, or other place for the sale of spirituous liquors, or expose for sale, sell or otherwise dispose of any spirituous liquors, or engage at gaming at or within one-half mile of the place where any agricultural, horticultural or mechanical fair is being held, under the auspices of the district or county boards of agriculture, shall for each offence be fined not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars; Provided, 'This section shall not affect tavern keepers, distillers or others actually exercising their calling at their usual place of business, six months immediately preceding the holding of the fair.

§ 13. Arrest of violators.] Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section may be arrested upon view, or upon warrant, by any sheriff, coroner, constable, or other officer authorized to make arrest, and such officer may seize and destroy such articles of gaming or liquors, and hold the booth, tent, wagon, vessel or boat and upon a judgment being rendered against the offender, the same may be sold upon the execution issued upon such judgment. And if sufficient property is not found to satisfy such fine, the offender may be committed to the county jail until the fine and costs are paid, or the prisoner discharged according to law.

§ 15. Compensation.] The officers and members of the district boards of agriculture, except the Secretary and Treasurer, shall serve without pay, but shall receive mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile one way from their home to the place of meeting of the society, and their necessary expenses while in the discharge of their duties, which shall be paid by the Territorial Treasurer, upon a warrant issued and certified to, by the president of the district boards of agriculture.

§ 2. Repeal.] Аll acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 3. Effect-when.] This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

BISMARCK, D. T., March 5, 1889.

I hereby certify that on the 5th дау of March, 1889, this act was returned to the House of Representatives the House in which it originated without the approval of bis Excel-