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§§ 184-189 § 184. The district boards of agriculture shall hold an annual meeting on the first Tuesday in December, and within ten days thereafter make and deliver to the governor a report of their acts and doings, as required by law, and no other annual report shall be made by said boards.

§ 185. 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 the said board the interests of the territory require, said annual report and appended essays not to exceed seven hundred printed pages; and one thousand copies of said report shall be published annually in pamphlet form by the public printer of the territory at the contract rates, and the same shall be distributed jointly by the presidents of the respective 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.

§ 186. It shall be lawful for the district boards of agriculture or other agricultural society at or before the time for holding its annual fair or fairs, to select and appoint as many persons to act in the capacity, of special police as are by said societies deemed requisite to insure peace and good order on or about the grounds or place of holding such fair, for and during the holding of the same; provided, that such person before entering upon the duties of special police shall receive his authority from, and take the oath of office before, any judge or justice of the peace or other officer authorized to administer oaths, residing or holding his office in the town or municipal corporation most contiguous to the fair grounds or place of holding such fair, and shall receive from such judge or justice of the peace a certificate under seal of his appointment and authority to act as such special police, which shall be indicated by some appropriate badge of office, and when so authorized he shall be clothed with full police powers.

§ 187. Whoever trespasses on any fair grounds to commit any depredations upon the property of any agricultural society, by cutting or destroying any timber or trees, breaking or carrying away any box, trough, stall, bench, fence, lock, door, gate, lumber or other appurtenances to any fair grounds, whether within or without the inclosure thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor exceeding two hundred dollars, and shall be liable civilly for all damages sustained by such unlawful acts.

§ 188. 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 boards of agriculture, shall for each offense be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars; provided, this section shall not affect tavern keepers, distillers or others exercising their calling at their usual place of business.

§ 189. Any person viol 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 the booth, tent, wagon, vessel