STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[Revised and adopted by the State Board of Agriculture, April 20, 1886.] 



NAME. 



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 comforts of home life. 



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



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 life member of this 

 society, shall be furnished with a personal badge for his separate use, which shall entitle 

 him to admission to all the exhibitions of the society, the quarter-stretch, the Grand Stand 

 at Park, during his lifetime, and a separate ticket for the use of his wife and minor chil- 

 dren only, which will entitle them to admission to all the exhibitions of the society, each 

 day, as follows : a coupon for the Park (morning), a coupon for the Park (afternoon), a 

 coupon for Pavilion afternoon and evening, and shall be permitted to compete for pre- 

 miums in any and all departments. 



Annual members will be furnished with a ticket that will entitle him, accompanied by 

 a lady, and one child under fifteen years of age, or, if purchased in the name of a lady, 

 will admit the owner and lady, and one child under fifteen years of age, twice daily at 

 Park and Pavilion, and permission to compete for premiums in any and 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 toward 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 days 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 financial 

 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 indus- 

 tries 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 Presi- 

 dent 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 miner- 

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



