the necessary fee — a sure evidence of their faith and courage. Eighty 

 odd, with their wives and little ones, assembled on the first limited notice 

 and made themselves members. We hope much of our works. You 

 will receive some accounts hereafter, from 



Your most obed't serv't, 



TIMO. EASTMAN, 

 Secretary Ottawa Co. Ag'l Society. 



ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of the Ottawa County Ag- 

 ricultural Society. 



Art. 1. Henry Pennoyer, Timo. Eastman, Simeon Hazleton, Gros- 

 venor Reed, L. M. S. Smith, Geo. Luther, Perley Lawton, Allen Stod- 

 dard, Geo. Baxter, Charles Buck, Geo. Parks, and Alfred B. Sumner, 

 their associates and successors, inhabitants of Ottawa county, Michigan, 

 are hereby associated and organized under act No. 80, of Session Laws 

 of 1855, into a Society for the advancement of agriculture, horticulture, 

 the mechanic and domestic arte, to be designated and known in law as 

 the " Ottawa County Agricultural Society." 



Art. 2. Ite officers shall be a President, Vice President, Secretary, 

 Treasurer, and seven Directors, who shall together constitute an Execu- 

 tive Board for the management of the concerns of said Society, a ma- 

 jority whereof shall be a quorum, and they shall so manage the prop- 

 erty and concerns of said Society as will best promote its interests 

 and professed objects ; and there shall be a Corresponding Secretary in 

 each town in the county ; all which officers shall hereafter be elected 

 annually by the stockholders of said Society, on the last day of holding 

 the annual fair, at such time and place as shall be notified in the pre- 

 mium list or exhibition bill. The officers for the current year are here- 

 by appointed and named in section seven of these articles of associa- 

 tion. 



Art. 3. The annual meetino; of the Executive Board shall be held 

 on the first Monday of December, at the place of holding the last an- 

 nual fair, when and where the officers shall make their requisite reports, 

 and which shall be the close of the Society's fiscal year aud of the offi- 

 cial term of its officers, and upon its adjournment shall commence the 

 term of the officers elect ; but all officers shall continue to discharge 



