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of the district during their term of office; and they shall each hold office until their successor 

 is elected and qualified. 



BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



Sec. 2. The said officers 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 

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

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

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



DUTIES OF THE BOARD. 



Sec. 3. The Board of Managers shall have the general and financial management of all the 

 aflTairs 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 dollars, 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 for all meetings, faii-s, etc. The Board, 

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

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

 standing committees, including a Finance Committee, as it may deem expedient, and such 

 standing 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 appoint all other meetings not otherwise pro- 

 vided for; shall vote only at the election of officers, and in case of a tie; and shall sign all doc- 

 uments emanating from the Board or Society, not otherwise provided 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 such meeting and for 

 the completion of any business transacted at the same, shall have the same powers as the 

 President. 



ARTICLE VI. 



meeting and EXHIBITIONS — MEETINGS. 



Section 1. The next annual meeting of this Society shall be held at Stockton, California, on 

 the second Saturday in January of the year 1880, and at the same time and j^lace each succeed- 

 ing year, notice of which shall be given in a daily Stockton newspaper, at least twenty days 

 prior to such meeting, at which time all the officers and committees from whom reports of the 

 preceding year's services are requii-ed shall present the same. All officers required by law for 

 the ensuing year shall, at said meeting, be elected by ballot only. No special meeting of the 

 Society shall be called but upon fifteen days notice in the columns of one or more daily news- 

 papers published in Stockton, nor without a request signed by at least fifteen members of the 

 Society. At any meeting of the Society, twenty-one members shall constitute a quorum. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



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

 fair and cattle show in the City of Stockton and at the Society's grounds, and may, by direction 

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

 Society. 



ARTICLE 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 shall be adopted and become part of 

 this Constitution. If less than five-sixths, but one-half or more, of all the votes present, 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 present vote for the amendment, it shall be adopted and become a part of this 

 Constitution. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



effect. 

 Section 1. This Constitution shall be in force from and after its adoption. 



I hereby certify that the foregoing 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, 

 December 7th, 1878. 



Attest: J. M. LaRUE, Secretary. 



