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ARTICLK VI. — DONATIONS AND BRQUESTS. 



Section ^. All donations, boquests, and loj^acies to this Socifty, desij^nated l)y the donors for 

 any partimlar pur])o.so einbracod within the objects of the Society, shall be with strict fidelity 

 so applied ; ami the name of each donor, together with the amount and description of such 

 donation, and the object for which it was designated, shall be registered in a book kept exi)re3sly 

 for that purpose. 



ARTICLE VII. — MEETINGS AND EXHIIIITIONS. 



Section 1. Exhibitions. — The Society shall hold an annual fair and cattle show in the City 

 of Sacramento, and may, at its discretion, hold such other exhibitions as it may deem conducive 

 to the interests of agriculture. 



Sec. 2. Annual Meeting/. — The annual meeting shall be held at the Capital of the State, at 

 such time during the month of .January in each year as the Board may designate, at which 

 time all theotricers from whom rejwrts of the preceding year's service are required shall present 

 the same, and all oHicers for the ensuing year shall be elected by ballot; and all officers shall 

 continue in office until their successors are duly qualified. 



Sec. ."?. Special Meetings, how called. — No special meeting of the Society shall be called but 

 ujjon thirty days' notice in the columns of a newspaper published in each of the Cities of San 

 Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville, and Stockton ; nor without a request signed by at least ten 

 members. 



Sec. 4. Prn.ry Voting. — It shall not be admissible for any member to vote by proxy in any 

 meeting of this Society, or its Board of Managers. 



Sec. 5. Q(/or«»i of the Societi/. — At any meeting of this Society, fifteen members (a majority 

 of whom shall represent counties other than the one where the meeting shall be held) sliall 

 constitute a quorum. 



ARTICLE IX. — office AND ROOMS. 



Section 1. The office, rooms, library, and cabinet of the Society shall be permanently located 

 at the Capital of the State. 



article X. — AMENDMENTS. 



Section \. Amendments to this Cofistitution must be presented in writing at an annual 

 meeting, when, if unanimously agreed to, tlicy shall be adopted; but if there be objection, and 

 a majority consent thereto, they shall ))e spread upon the minutes and lie over until the next 

 annual meeting, when they shall be read, and if", after due di-scussion, two-thirds of all the 

 members present vote for the amendments, they shall be adopted and become a part and parcel 

 of this Constitution, 



article XI. — effect. 



Section 1. This Constitution shall take effect from and after its passage. 



I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Constitution of the California State Agricultural 

 Society, as amended by unanimous consent at the annual meeting of the Society, held on the 

 twenty-eighth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. 



ROBERT BECK, Corresponding Secretary. 



