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ARTICLE VI. 



It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to exercise a general super- 

 vision of the alikirs of the Society ; to appropriate the funds of the same in 

 such manner as shall best subserve the interests, and forward the objects of the 

 Society; to offer premiums, and to appoint Committees to award them; and to 

 distribute all seeds, plants, books, &c., received for the Society, and to make their 

 Annual Report at the Annual Meeting. 



ARTICLE VIL 



The Executive Committee shall determine the time and place, and make the 

 necessary preparations for an Annual Fair, and give sufficient previous notice of 

 the Premiums to be awarded thereat, and shall establish such By-Laws to regu- 

 late the deposit of Premiums as they shall deem proper. 



ARTICLE VIII. 

 All competitors for Premiums must be members of the Society. 



ARTILCE IX. 



This Constitution may be altered at any Annual Meeting, by a vote of two- 

 thirds of the members present. 



Charles Burchard. John W. Boyd. 



Moses Meeker. Asa Kinney. 



James Gilmore. James Duane Doty. 



Edward H. Janssen. William C. Greene. 

 Andrew E. Elmore. 



STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 1849. 



Madison, December 25th, 1851. 



Dear Sir — As we have now a State Agricultural Society in successful opera- 

 tion, the first yearly " Transactions" of which are about to be published, it may 

 not be considered inappropriate to embody in that work the unsuccessful attempts 

 in previous years to establish and put in operation a Society of this kind. 



It is well known that at almost every session of oui' State Legislature, some fern 

 individuals, actuated by a laudable desire to do something to build up and 

 encourage industrial pursuits, have succeeded in raising — not an excitement, for 



