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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY · Representa-
tion in Board of Agriculture - Bounty.
The right of an agricultural society to repre-
sentation in the Board of Agriculture in any year
depends on its title to receive a bounty that year.
A society's title to bounty and to representation
is to be determined by its returns between January
10 and the first Wednesday of February each year.

A society is not entitled to a bounty in any year
unless it has awarded and paid premiums to the
same amount during the preceding year.

The application of a bounty to the general en-
couragement or improvement of agriculture or
manufactures does not by itself entitle a society
to a bounty or to representation in the Board

The requirement of $1.000 invested capital in
order to be entitled to a bounty applies to all
societies, and means an actually existing invested
capital.

The title of a society to representation in the
Board accrues year by year, and the membership
of a representative of a society terminates when

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — Continued.
his society ceases to be entitled to representation,
though within three years from the time when he
took his seat, subject to reinstatement when the
society again acquires the right to representa-
tion.

Voting by Proxy

See CORPORATION. 10.

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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STA-
TION - Property - Transfer.

St. 1894, c. 143, is insufficient to authorize the
transfer of the property that is vested in the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station under
the provisions of St. 1887, c. 31

AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF - Repre-
sentation of Agricultural Society in
Bounty

See AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1.

May not incur Expense investigating
Existence of Gypsy Moth outside
Limits of Commonwealth

See GYPSY MOTH.

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382

ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTIL-
LERY COMPANY - Officers - Com-

mission-Governor.

The Governor has no authority to commission
the officers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company. He may at his discretion issue a cer-
tificate to the effect that he has inducted the off-
cers of the company into office in accordance with
ancient custom

ANCIENT ORDER OF

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UNITED

WORKMEN - Allegiance to For-
eign Corporation
See INSURANCE. 29.

APPROPRIATION - Legislative Intent.

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AUSTRALIAN BALLOT LAW - Inserting
Names of Candidates upon and Marking
Official Ballots Power of House of
Representatives

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Constitutional Law.
If a voter pastes on the official ballot at the end
of the list of candidates a printed slip bearing the
name of a candidate, and makes the X mark in
the space at the right of such name, the ballot
should be counted for the candidate whose name
is thus pasted on.

Where the official ballot bears only one name,
and some official ballots are cast bearing such
name and none other, but without the X or other
mark thereon, they are to be counted for such
candidate. So, also, if there is no X mark in the
proper place, but X marks are made in various
other places on the face of the ballot.

Where the official ballot bears only one name,
and a printed slip bearing another name is pasted
thereon, and no X or other mark is made on the
ballot, it cannot be counted for either candidate,
In case there are more candidates than one, the
voter must indicate his choice by the X mark.

Where the official ballot bears only one name,
and the printed name of another candidate is
pasted in the space with such name, but not
covering it, and the X mark is placed in the space
to the right of both names, such ballot can be
counted for either candidate, according to the
voter's choice, if that can be determined. If the
printed name pasted on covers the other name,
and the X mark is in the proper place, the ballot
can be counted for the candidate whose name is
thus affixed. If it only partially covers the other
name, the ballot can be counted for the voter's
choice, if that can be determined.

Affixing a name to a ballot is competent evi-
dence that the voter intended to vote for the person
whose name is thus affixed.

The House of Representatives has absolute
power under the Constitution to "judge of the
returns, elections and qualifications of its own
members."

It can count ballots found in the ballot box and
marked "cancelled," when it appears from the
marks upon the ballots that they have been through
the official registering ballot box

2.

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Registration of Voters - Right to vote -
Constitutional Law.

The Legislature cannot impose upon a voter any
qualifications as a condition of the right to vote
beyond those prescribed by the Constitution.

The Legislature may provide reasonable and
uniform regulations for the registration of voters,
and for the exclusion from the right to vote of any
not so registered.

An act favoring, in the convenience of registra-
tion, those who are assessed and have paid a tax,
but leaving all free to register without reference to
taxation, is not clearly unconstitutional. Whether
such a regulation is reasonable is largely a question
for the judgment of the Legislature
3.

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Registration of Voters - Residence - Re-
moval within Six Months- Constitutional
Law.

Prior to thirtieth constitutional amendment six
months' continuous residence in one place next
preceding the election was essential to the right

to vote.