Chap. 71.—An ACT to establish and incorporate the Augusta County Fair.

Passed J anuary 15, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, The court of
Augusta county, when the justices thereof are next assem-
bled to lay the county levy, shall choose ten citizens of the
county to be “directors of. the Augusta county fair,” and
shall divide them by lot into five classes, one of which* shall
go out of office at the expiration of each year. At the same
term in each year thereafter the said court shall fill all vacan-
cies in the said directory. Ifa vacancy occurs by expira-
‘ion of a term, the appointment shall be for five years, but
in all other cases for the unexpired term, so as to keep up the
regular succession by classes.

2.. The directory so appointed, shall be a corporation by
he name of The Augusta County Fair, for the purpose of
sstablishing and conducting fairs and other exhibitions of the
natural and industrial products of Augusta county, as a means
of developing the resources of the county and,of promoting
enterprise, industry, economy and thrift among the people.

3. The directory shall, from their own number, choose a
president of, the cor poration. They shall pr escribe rules
whereby citizens of Augusta county, on contributing one
hundred dollars each to the spermanent endowment of the
corporation, may become for life corporators of “the Au-
gusta county fair.” Whenever there shall bé at least one
such corporator for every two hundred inhabitants of the
county, as shown by the next preceding census, the lists shall
be certified by the directory to the court of Augusta county,
who shall cause the same to be entered of record; whereupon
elections of directors by the court shall cease, and thereafter
the said corporators shall be the constituent body from whom
and by whom shall be chosen the directors of the corpora-
tion to fill vacancies and to keep up the succession as herein-
before provided. —
_ 4. Elections for directors by the corporators shall be held
at the regular annual fair. The voting shall be viva voce,
and a plurality of votes shall elect in any case. In all other
respects the elections shall be conducted, certified and deter-
mined as the rules shall prescribe.

do. The court of Augusta county, in laying the county levy
for any year, may provide a fund, not exceeding five cents
for each inhabitant of the county, as shown by the next pre-
ceding census; and the council of the town of Staunton
may, in the same manner, provide a fund, subject to a like
limitation, to be paid over in each case to the Augusta county
fair, and to be expended in suitable prizes to be offered at
the fairs or other exhibitions conducted by the corporation.

6. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to modification or repeal, at the pleasure of the gene-
ral assembly.

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