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with the Secretary their awards, and the same shall be preserved in the 

 archives of the Society. 



Art. 13. The Executive Committee shall audit the accounts of the 

 Treasurer and Recording Secretary, and if found correct shall certify to 

 the same, prior to its submission to the Annual Meeting of the Society. 



Art. 14. No person shall be entitled to vote either at the Annual 

 Meeting or meetings of the Executive Committee, unless he be a mem- 

 ber of the Society. 



Art. 15. Premiums may be offered and awarded for such foreign' 

 sEock and articles as the Executive Committee shall designate, but such 

 premiums shall be distinct from the premiums awarded for articles and 

 stock owned in the county ; and stock and articles owned in the county 

 shall have the right to compete with all such premiums. 



Art. 16. These by-laws may be altered or amended at any meet- 

 ing of the Executive Committee, by a majority of the members there 

 present, voting so to do. 



Art. 17. No article or animal offered for exhibition, can be taken 

 from the ground before the close of tlie Fair, without the permission of 

 the Executive Committee, and any violation of this rule will forfeit all 

 claim to a premium on the article so removed. 



Art. 18. All persons competing for premiums on field crops, must 

 furnish a written statement of the amounts of their products, with full 

 particulars of the mode of cultivation, and the judges shall require of 

 them satisfactory evidence of the correctness of such statement. 



Art. 19, A quorum of five at any of the meetings of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, shall be sufficient to transact any business which may 

 come before said committee. 



L. H. ION, 

 JAMES GALLERY, 

 HARVEY WILLIAMS, 



Commiltce. 



Reiolved, That the Recording Secretary is hereby requested to pro- 

 cure, as soon as practicable, one thousand cards or certificates of mem- 

 bership, to be distributed to the Corresponding Secretaries and other 

 officers in each organized township, with instructions to procure as many 

 members as possible, and report to the Corresponding Secretary the 



