TRANSACTIONS OP THE 



A COMPILATION 



OF ALL THE LAWS NOW IN FORCE RELATING TO OR AFFECTING THE STATE 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AND APPROPRIATE MONEY 



FOR ITS SUPPORT. 



The People, of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. There is hereby established and incorporated a Society to be known and designated 

 by the name and style of the " California State Agricultural Society," and by that name 

 and style shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power to contract and be contracted 

 with, to sue and be sued, and shall have authority to have and use a common seal, to make, 

 ordain, and establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations as- 

 shall be necessary for the good government of said Society, and the prudent and efficient man- 

 agement of its affairs; provided, that said laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations shall not be 

 contrary to any jrjrovisioii of this charter, nor the laws and Constitution of this State or of the- 

 United States. 



Sec 2. In addition to the powers above enumerated, the Society shall, by its name aforesaid,, 

 have power to f)urchase and hold any quantity of land not exceeding four sections, and may sell 

 and dispose of the same at pleasure. The said real estate shall be held by said Society for the 

 sole purpose of establishing a model experimental farm or farms, erecting inelosures, buildings,, 

 and other improvements calculated and designed for the meeting of the Society, and for an 

 exhibition of the various breeds of horses, cattle, mules, and other stock, and of agricultural, 

 mechanical, and domestic manufactures and productions, and for no other purjDOses. 



And be it further enacted. That if, from any cause, said Society shall ever be dissolved, or fail 

 to meet within the period of two consecutive years, then the real estate held by it, together with 

 all the buildings and appurtenances belonging to said estate, shall be sold as lands are now sold 

 by execution, and the proceeds deposited in the State treasury, subject to the control of the 

 Legislature. 



AN ACT 



SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 

 APPROVED MAY THIRTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR, AND 

 AMENDED MARCH TWENTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT. 



The People of the Slate of California, rep)resented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :, 



Section 1. The general prudential and financial affairs of the Society shall be intrusted to a 

 Board of Agriculture, to consist of a President and nine Directors, five of whom shall constitute 

 a quorum. 



Sec. 2. Said Board of Agriculture shall be elected at a general State Agricultural Conven- 

 tion, to be held at the Capital of the State, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in the 

 month of March, and in the month of January every year thereafter, to consist of the life mem- 

 bers and annual members of the State Agricultural Society and four delegates from each County 

 Agricultural Society within this State, incoi'j)orated under the general laws of this State for such 

 corporations, and an equal number from each District Agricultural Society, also incorporated 

 under the general laws of this State for such purposes; said delegates to be chosen at the annual 

 fair or annual meeting of each such Society next preceding the State Agricultural Convention; 

 provided, said convention to be held in March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three. 



