CONSTITUTION 



OF THK 



CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE I. — NAUK. 



Section 1. This Society shall be called "The California State Agricultural Society." 



ARTICLK II. — OBJKCT. 



Skctiox 1. It shall be the object of this Society to encourage the cultivation of the soil, and 

 the general devclojinient of all tlie agricultural renourccs of this State. 



Skc. 2. To foster eveiy branch of mechanical and household arts calculated to increase the 

 happiness of home life. 



Skc. 3. To extend and facilitate the various branches of mining and mining interest. 



ARTICLE III. — MEMBERSHIP. 



Section 1. Annual Meinbers. — Any person who has, during the year eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-five, or wlio shall, during this year, or any subsequent one, pay into the funds of this 

 Society the sum of five dollars, may become a member of the same; such membership to expire 

 on the thirty-first day of the following December. 



Sec. 2. Life Members. — Any person may become a member for life by the i)ayment of fifty 

 doUans: or, if already a member, by the payment of forty dollars, and shall' thereafter be 

 exempt from all dues and assessments. 



Sec 3. Honorary and Corresponding Members. — Any person whom the Board shall propose 

 may be elected an honorary or corresponding member, and shall enjoy, free of charge, all the 

 privileges of the Society, except voting and holding oHice. 



Skc. 4. Privileges of Members. — Any citizen of this State, being a member of this Society, 



shall be eligible to oflice, entitled to vote, and enjoy the free use of the library, under the rules 



of the same, and have free admission, accompanied by his wife and minor diildren. to all the 



exhibitions of the Society, and shall be jicrmitted to com])ete for premiums in aiivor all de]>art- 



'ments. 



Sec. 5. Expulsion of Members. — An_v member who shall present for exhibition any article 

 or animal which ho is not entitled by the rules of the Society to exhibit, or who shall attempt 

 to deceive, or be guilty of a breach of good faith toward the Society, may be exjiclled by a vote 

 of two-thirds of the members present at any meeting of the Society; provided, a I wai/s^ that no 

 member shall be exjKdled unless written notice of the alleged oliense shall have been .served on 

 him, or left at his usual place of residence at least twenty days previous to the action. 



ARTICLE IV. — OFFICERS. 



Section 1. The ofhcers of this Society shall consist of a President and nine Directors, who 

 shall constitute a State Board of Agriculture, five of whom shall constitute a quorum. Tlu-v 

 shall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not members of the Board. They may also appoint", 

 annually, as officers of the Board, a cbemist, a botanist, a meteorologist, a geologist, a metallur- 

 gist, an ornithologist, and an entomologist, and define the duties of each. They may a])]>oint 

 such committees on the various do])artMients of agriculture, mining, and manufactures, either 

 generally, or for specific ]>uriioses, as they may deem important for the best interests of the 

 State, aii<l require .such committees to report the results of their investigations to the Board at 

 sucii times as may be named by them. 



Skc. 2. Duticf of I'resiilenl.— The President shall preside at all meetings of the Board, and 

 of the Society; shall have ])ower to call sjKH'ial meetings of the Board when necessary, and at 

 the written request of ten members may call extra meetings of the Society; shall appoint all 

 meetings not otiierwise provided for; shall vote only at the election of officers, and in case of a 

 tie; and shall sign all financial and official documents emanating from the Society, and not 

 otherwise j)rovided for. In the absence of the President from aiiv meeting of the Board or 



