STATE AGRICULTCRAL SOCIETY. 



DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS. 



AN ACT 



TO FORM AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION 

 OF AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS THEREIN, AND FOR THE MANAGEMENT 

 AND CONTROL OF THE SAME BY THE STATE. 



[Approved April 15th, 1880.] 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Suction 1. The Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco, shall constitute 

 Agricultural District No. 1. 



Sec. 2. The Counties of San Joaquin, Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Merced, Mariposa, Stanis- 

 laus, Tulare, and Tuolumne, shall constitute Agricultural District No. 2. 



Sec. 3. The Counties of Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Colusa, Tehama, Yolo, and Sacramento, shall 

 constitute Agricultural District No. 3. 



Sec. 4. The Counties of Sonoma, Marin, Solano, Napa, and Lake, shall constitute Agricul- 

 tural District No. 4. 



Sec. 5. The Counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo shall constitute Agricultural District 

 No. 5. 



Sec. 6. The Counties of Los Angeles, Sarr Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Ventura, 

 and Inyo, shall constitute Agricultural District No. 6. 



Sec. 7. The Counties of Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and San Benito, shall con- 

 stitute Agricultural District No. 7. 



Sec. 8." The Counties of Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Alpine, and Mono, shall con- 

 stitute Agricultural District No. 8. 



Sec. 9. The Counties of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte, shall constitute Agricultural 

 District No. 9. 



Sec. 10. The Counties of Siskiyou, Trinity, and Shasta, shall constitute Agricultural Dis- 

 trict No. 10. 



Sec. 1 1 . The Counties of Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, and Sierra, shall constitute Agricultural 

 District No. 11. 



Sec. 12. Any fifty or more persons representing a majority of the counties within any one 

 of the districts above constituted, may form an association for the improvement of the material 

 industries within such district, and, when so formed, the association shall be known and desig- 

 nated by the name of ■ Agricultural Association, and by such name and style shall have 



perpetual succession, and shall have power and authority to contract and be contracted with, to 

 sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, to purchase and hold and lease real estate, 

 with such buildings and improvements as may be erected thereon, and may sell and lease and 

 dispose of the same at pleasure. The said real estate shall be used by such association for the 

 purposes of holding exhibitions of horses, cattle, and other stock, of the agricultural, horti- 

 cultural, viticultural, mechanical, manufacturing, and domestic products of such district, with 

 view to the improvement of all the industries in the same. 



Sec. 13. The officers of such association shall consist of eight Directors, who shall constitute 



a District Board of Agriculture for District Number , a President, who shall be one of their 



number, and a Secretary and Treasurer, not of their number. 



Sec. 14. Within ten days after the formation of an agricultural association within any of 

 the districts above constituted, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and notice of such 

 formation to the Governor, the Governor shall appoint eight resident citizens of such districts as 

 members of a District Board of Agriculture for said district, whose term of office shall be four 

 years, except as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 15. Within ten days after their appointment, the persons so appointed shall qualify as 

 required by the Constitution, and shall meet at a place within the district, and organize by the 

 election of one of their number as President of the Board and association, who shall hold said 

 office of President one year, and until his successor is elected ; they shall also elect a Secretary 

 and Treasurer. 



Sec. 16. At the same meeting the members of the Board shall, by lot or otherwise, classify 

 themselves into four classes of two members each. The terms of office of the first class shall 

 expire at the end of the first fiscal year; of the second class, of the second fiscal year ; of the 



