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article vi. 



ilKKTINOS AN'U KXHIBITIONS — MEKTINO. 



Sectiok 1. The next annual meeting of this Society sli:ill be hold at Stockton, California, on 

 the second Saturday in January, of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, an<i at the same time 

 and place each succeeding year, notice of which shall he given in a daily Stockton newsjiaper, at 

 least twenty days jirior Uj such meeting, at which time all the odicers and committees from 

 whom reports of the preceding year's services are required, shall present the same. All officers 

 required bv law for the ensuing year shall, at saicl meeting, be elected by ballot only. No 

 special meeting of the Society shall be called but ujion fifteen days' notice in the columns of one 

 or more daily'^newspapers published in Stockton — nor without a request signed by at least 

 fifteen members of tlie Society. At any meeting of the Society, twenty-one niembers shall con- 

 stitute a quorum. 



KXHIBITIOSS. 



Skc. 2. The Society shall hold (or not, at the discretion of its Board of Managers), an annual 

 fair and cattle show'm the City of Stockton and at the Society's grounds, and niay, by direc- 

 tion of the Board, hold such other exhibitions as it may deem conducive to the interests of the 

 Societv. 



ARTICLIO VII. 



AMENDMENTS. 



Section 1. An amendment to this Constitution must be presented in writing at an annual 

 meeting, when it shall be read; and if, after due discussion has been allowed, five-sixths or 

 more of all the votes present are in favor of the amendment, it sliall be adopted and become a 

 part of this Constitution. If less than five-sixths, but one-half or more, of all the votes pres- 

 ent are favorable to the amendment, it shall be spread upon the minutes of the meeting and 

 lay over until the next annual meeting, at which time it shall be considered, and if two-thirds 

 of all the members i)resent vote for the amendment, it shall be adopted and become a part and 

 parcel of this Constitution. 



ARTICLE VII r. 



ekfect. 



Skctio.n 1. This Cousuiuliou sluvll be iu force froui and nfler its adoption. 



I hereby certify tliat the fore^iioing is a full, true, and correct copy 

 of the Constitution of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society, 

 as adopted at the annual meeting of said Society, held at Stockton, 

 California, on the seventh day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-eight. 



Attest: J. M. LaRUE, Secretary. 



OFFICERS ELECTED. 



Stockton, December 14th, 1878. 



Honorable Robert Beck, Secretary State Board of Agriculture: 



Dear Sir: Please take notice that the officers elect of the San 

 Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society, for the year eighteen hundred 

 and seventy-nine, are as follows: 



President — L. U. Shippee. 



Directors— .]o\\\\ E. Moore, R. C. Sargent, J. A. Shephard, Fred. Arnold, H. W. Weaver, J. A. 

 Louttit. 



Officers of the Board of Managers— A. W. Simpson, Treasurer; J. M. LaRue, Secretary. 

 Address— F. 0. Box 1*88, Stockton, California. 



Respectfully, 



J. M. La RUE, Secretary. 



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