STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE FOR 1880. GENERAL BOOKBINDING CO. QUALITY CONTROL MARK CONSTITUTION OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Sacramento. San José. Nord, Butte County. Sacramento. ARTICLE 1.--NAME. SECTION 1. This Society shall be called "The California State Agricultural Society.” ARTICLE II-OBJECT. SECTION 1. It shall be the object of this Society to encourage the cultivation of the soil, and the general development of all the agricultural resources of this State. SEC. 2. To foster every branch of mechanical and household arts calculated to increase the happiness of home life. SEC. 3. To extend and facilitate the various branches of mining and mining interest. ARTICLE 111.-MEMBERSHIP. SECTION 1. Annual Members.-Any person who has, during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or who shall, during this year, or any subsequent one, pay into the funds of this Society the sum of five dollars, may become a member of the same; such membership to expire on the thirty first day of the following December. SEC. 2. Life Members.-Auy person may become a member for life by the payment of fifty dcllars; or, if already a member, by the payment of forty dollars, and shall thereafter be exempt from all dues and assessments. SEC. 3. Honorary and Corresponding Members. Any person whom the Board shall propose may be elected an honorary or corresponding member, and shall enjoy, free of charge, all the privileges of the Society, except voting aud holding office. SEC. 4. Privileges of Members.-Any citizen of this State, being a member of this Society, shall be eligible to office, entitled to vote, and enjoy the free use of the library, under the rules Yolo (P. O. Sacramento). of the same, and have free admission, accompanied by his wife and minor children, to all the exhibitions of the Society, and shall be permitted to compete for premiums in any or all depart Sacramento. ments. SEC. 5. Expulsion of Members. Any member who shall present for exhibition any article or animal which he is not entitled by the rules of the Society to exhibit, or who shall attempt to deceive, or be guilty of a breach of good faith toward the Society, may be expelled by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any meeting of the Society; provided, always, that no Sacramento. member shall be expelled unless written notice of the alleged offense shall have been served on him, or lest at his usual place of residence, at least twenty days previous to the action. Sacramento. ARTICLE IV.-OFFICERS. SECTION 1. The officers of this Society shall consist of a President and nine Directors, who shall constitute a State Board of Agriculture, five of whom shall constitute a quorum. They shall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not members of the Board. They may also appoint, annually, as officers of the Board, a chemist, a botanist, a meteorologist, a geologist, a metallurgist, an ornithologist, and an etomologist, and define the duties of each. They may appoint such committees on the various departments of agriculture, mining, and manufactures, either generally, or for specifie purposes, as they may deem important for the best interests of the State, and require such committees to report the results of their investigations to the Board at such times as may be named by them. SEC. 2. Duties of President.-The President shall preside at all meetings of the Board and of the Society; shall have power to call special meetings of the Board when necessary, and at the written request of ten members may call extra meetings of the Society; shall appoint all meetings not otherwise provided for; shall vote only at the election of officers, and in case of a tie; and shall sign all financial and official documents emanating from the Society, and not otherwise provided for. In the absence of the President from any meeting of the Board or Society, any Director may be called to the chair, and during such meeting, and for the completion of any business transacted, or ordered at the same, shall have the same powers as the President. |