STATE A<;WU TLTIRAL SOCIETY. 



CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[Revised and adopted by the State Board of Agriculture, May 18, 1880.] 



N \ M E. 



Section 1. This society shall be called ''The California State Agricultural Society.'' 



OBJECT. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the object of this society to encourage the cultivation of the soil, and 

 the general development of all the agricultural resources of this State. 



Sec. 3. To foster every branch of mechanical and household arts calculated to increase 

 the happiness of home life. 



Sec. 4. To extend and facilitate the various branches of mining and mining interests. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



Sec. 5. Annual Members. — Any person who shall pay into the funds of this society the 

 sum of five dollars, may become a member of the same; such membership to expire at 

 the end of the current fiscal year. 



Sec. 6. Life Members. — Any person may become a member for life by the payment of 

 fifty dollars; or, if already a member, by the payment of forty-five dollars, or by serving 

 a full term as a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and shall thereafter be exempt 

 from all dues and assessments. 



Sec. 7. Honorary and Corresponding Members. — Any person whom the Board shall pro- 

 pose may be elected an honorary or corresponding member, and shall enjoy, free of 

 charge, all the privileges of the society, except voting and holding office. 



Sec 8. Privileges of Members. — Any citizen of this State being a member of this society, 

 shall be eligible to office, entitled to vote, and enjoy the free use of the library, under the 

 rules of the same, and have free admission, accompanied by his wife and minor children, 

 to all the exhibitions of the society, and shall be permitted to compete for premiums in 

 any or all departments. 



Sec. 9. Expulsion of Members. — 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 breach of good faith towards the society, may be 

 expelled by a vote of two thirds of the members present at any meeting of the Board ; 

 provided, always, that no member shall be expelled unless written notice of the alleged 

 offense shall have been served on him, or left at his usual place of residence at least twenty 

 clays previous to the action. 



OFFICERS. 



Sec. 10. The officers of this society shall consist of twelve Directors, to be appointed 

 by the Governor, who shall constitute a State Board of Agriculture, seven of whom shall 

 constitute a quorum. The Board shall be charged with the exclusive management and 

 control of the State Agricultural Society as a State institution ; shall have possession and 

 care of its property, and be intrusted with the direction of its entire business and finan- 

 cial affairs ; shall have power to make all necessary changes in the Constitution and rules 

 of the society ; shall provide for an annual Fair or exhibition by the society of all the 

 industries and industrial products of the State, at the City of Sacramento, and such other 

 exhibition as they may deem important. They shall elect one of their members as Pres- 

 ident of the Board and society, and a Treasurer and Secretary, not members of the Board. 

 They may also appoint, annually, as officers of the Board, a chemist, a botanist, a mineral- 

 ogist, a geologist, a metallurgist, an ornithologist, and an entomologist, and define the 

 duties of each. They may appoint such committees on the various departments of agri- 

 culture, mining, and manufactures, either generally or for specific purposes, as they may 



