first annual meeting ; and if a vacancy happen it may be filled by ap- 

 pointment of the Executive Committee. 



Art. 3. The duties of the President, Vice Presidents, Recording 

 and Corresponding Secretaries, shall be such as usually peitain to their 

 respective offices, and such also as may be prescribed by the order of 

 the Executive Committee, as hereinafter provided. 



Art. 4. The Treasurer shall receive and keep an accurate account of 

 all moneys belonging to the Society ; he shall pay out its moneys only 

 on the order of the Executive Committee, and at each annual meeting 

 of the Society he shall make a full report of its financial transactions 

 and condition. 



Art. 5. The Executive Committee shall determine the place for 

 holding each annual meeting and fair of the Society, and it shall call 

 that meeting and fair at such time as it shall judge best, between the 

 first Monday in September and the third Monday in October, giving at 

 least sixty days public notice thereof. 



Art. 6. The Executive Committee shall direct the money appropria- 

 tions of the Society, and have the control of its property; it shall make 

 the necessary preparations for the annual fair, and issue all proper public 

 notices and circulars in relation thereto, or to the general object of the 

 Society ; it shall prepare the necessary by-laws of the Society, and may 

 prescribe such duties to the other officers of the Society as are not in- 

 consistent with the usual business of their respective offices ; it shall 

 itself obey the instructions which may be given to it, at the annual 

 meeting of the Society, and at the expiration of its term of service, it 

 shall make a full report of its proceedings. It shall be competent for 

 the Executive Committee, or a majority of them, to appoint a Chair- 

 man and Secretary, who may transact all such business as they may be 

 authorized to do by said committee; and said Secretary shall sign, and 

 said Chairman shall countersign all orders on the Treasurer for the pay- 

 ment of any money directed by said committee to be paid for any pur- 

 pose, and said Secretary shall keep an accurate account of all orders so 

 drawn. 



Art. 7. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee annually 

 to regulate and award premiums on such articles, productions, and im- 

 provements, as they may deem best calculated to promote the agricul- 

 tural and household manufacturing interests of the State, having special 



