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article 'iii. 



DISTRICT. 



Section 1. This Agricultural District shall embrace the Counties of San Joaquin, Calaveras, 

 Tuolumne, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare, Stanislaus, Fresno, and Kern; provided, such Counties 

 shall voluntarily unite in forwarding the olijects for which this Society organized. 



ARTICLE IV. 



MKMBERSHIP — ANNUAL MEMBERS. 



Section 1. Any person, by paying to the Secretary the sum of five dollars, may become a 

 member for the current year, aiul all annual memberships shall expire on the thirty-first day 

 of December of that year. 



life MKMIiKKS. 



Sec. 2. Any person may become a member for life, by Paying to the Secretary the sum of 

 fifty dollars. 



HONOUAKY MEMBERS. 



Sec. 'i. The Society, or its Board of Managers, may elect two or more honorary or corres- 

 ponding members from each county in the district, wlio shall enjoy all the privileges of the 

 Society, except voting and holding otfice. 



PRIVILEGES OK MEMBERS. 



Sec. 4. Any citizen of this district, being a member of this Society, shall be entitled to one 

 vote and no more, and it shall not bo admissable for any member to vote by proxy in any 

 meeting of the Society, or its Board of Managers; shall Ite elligible to office; shall have free 

 admission, accoinj)ani"ed by his wife and minor cliildren, to all the exhibitions of the Society; 

 shall be permitted to compete for premiums in any or all departments — all under the rules of 

 the Society or its Board of Managers. 



EXPULSION OF MEMBERS. 



Sec. 5. Any member who shall present for exhibition, any article or animal which he is not 

 entitled by the rules of the Society to exhibit, or who shall attempt to deceive, or be guilty of 

 a breech of good faith toward the Society, may be expelled by a vote of two-thirds of the mem- 

 bers presentat any meeting of the Society ; provided, that no member shall be expelled unless 

 written notice of the alleged oflense, shall have been in person, served on, or left at the usual 

 place of residence of such member, at least twenty days previous to the action. 



ARTICLE V. 



OFFICERS. 



Section 1. The officers of this Society shall consist of a President and six (6) Directors, (to 

 be elected in accordance with the law), all of whom shall be members of the Society, and resi- 

 dents of the District, during all their term of office, and they shall each liold office until their 

 successor is elected and ([ualilied. 



BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



Sec. 2. The said ofiicers shall constitute the Board of Managers of the Society. In such 

 Board shall be vested (except as otherwise herein provided), all the powers and duties of this 

 Societv. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum to do and transact business. It 

 shall, "at its lirst meeting after the annual meeting of the Society, elect a Treasurer and Secre- 

 tary, not members of the Board, prescrii^e their duties, and fix their pay for the current year. 



DUTIES OF THE BOARD. 



Sec. 3. The B.ianl of Managers shall have the general and fiiiaiici;il management of all the 

 affairs of the Society in the interim of annual meetings, but it shall not create any liability or 

 liabilities which in 'the aggregate exceeds one thousand doUai's, after the financial transactions 

 of each annual fair have been closed. It shall fill all vacancies occurring between elections, 

 and make the necessary preparations and arrangements U)\- all meetings, fairs, etc. The B(wnl 

 shall also have power to make its own by-laws, rules, and regulations (not inconsistent with 

 this Constitution), and arrange the time aiid place of its own meeting. It shall appoint all such 

 standing committees, including a finance committee, as it may deem expedient; and such stand- 

 ing committees shall consist of three or more members of the Board. 



DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Sec. 4. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Board or of the Society; have 

 power to call special meetings of the Board, and at the written request of fifteen members, shall 

 call extra meetings of the Society; shall ai)point all other meetings not otherwise provided for; 

 shall vote only at the elections'of ofiicers, and in case of a tie, and shall sign all documents 

 emanating from the Board or Society not otiierwise ]irovided for by the Board of Managers and 

 this Constitution. In the absence of the President from any meeting of the Board or Society ,_ 

 any Director may be called to the chair, and during sucli meeting and for the completion of 

 any business transacted at the same, shall have the same ])owers as the President. 



