STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CONSTITUTION 



OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



ARTICLE I. — NAME. 



Section 1. Thi.g society shall be called " The California State Agri- 

 cultural Society." 



ARTICLE II. — OBJECT. 



Section 1. It shall be the object of this society to encourage the 

 cultivation of the soil, and the general development of all the agricul- 

 tural resources of this State. 



Sec. 2. To foster every branch of mechanical and household arts 

 calculated to increase the happiness of home life. 



Sec. 3. To extend and facilitate the various branches of mining and 

 mining interests. 



ARTICLE III. — MEMBERSHIP, 



Section 1. Annual Members. — Any person who has, during the year- 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or who shall, during this year or any 

 subsequent one, pay into the funds of this society the sum of five dollars, 

 may become a member of the same; such membership to expire on the 

 thirty-first day of the following December. 



Sec. 2. 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 dollars, and shall thereafter be exempt from all dues and assess- 

 ments. 



Sec 3. Honorary and Corresponding Members. — Any person whom the 

 Board shall propose, may be elected an honorary or a corresp(|^iiding 

 member, and shall enjoy, free of charge, all the privileges of the society, 

 except voting and holding office. 



Sec. 4. Friuller/es of Members — x'\ny citizen of this State, being a mem- 

 ber 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 



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