STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



LAWS RELATING TO DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS. 



AN ACT 



TO FORM AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZA- 

 TION OF AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS THEREIN, AND FOR THE 

 MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SAME BY THE STATE. 



[Approved April 15, 1880.1 



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



Section 1. The Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco shall constitute 

 Agricultural District No. 1. 



Sec. 2. The Counties of San Joaquin, Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Merced, Mariposa, Stan- 

 islaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne shall constitute Agricultural District No. 2. 



Sec 3. The Counties of Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Colusa, Tehama, Yolo, and Sacramento 

 shall constitute Agricultural District No. 3. 



Sec 4. The Counties of Sonoma, Marin, Solano, Napa, and Lake shall constitute Agri- 

 cultural District No. 4. 



Sec 5. The Counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo shall constitute Agricultural Dis- 

 trict No. 5. 



Sec 6. The Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Ven- 

 tura, and Inyo shall constitute Agricultural District No. 6. 



Sec 7. The Counties of Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and San Benito shall 

 constitute Agricultural District No. V. 



Sec 8. The Counties of Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Alpine, and Mono shall 

 constitute Agricultural District No. 8. 



Sec. 9. The Counties of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte shall constitute Agri- 

 cultural District No. 9. 



Sec 10. The Counties of Siskiyou, Trinity, and Shasta shall constitute Agricultural 

 District No. 10. 



Sec 11. The Counties of Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, and Sierra shall constitute Agricult- 

 ural District No. 11. 



Sec 12. Any fifty or more persons representing a majority of the counties within any 

 one of the districts above constituted, may form an association for the improvement of 

 the material industries within such district, and when so formed the association shall be 



known and designated by the name of Agricultural Association, and by such name 



and style shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power and authority to contract 

 and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, to purchase 

 and hold and lease real estate, with such buildings and improvements as may be erected 

 thereon, and may sell and lease and dispose of the same at pleasure. The said real estate 

 shall be used by such association for the purpose of holding exhibitions of horses, cattle, 

 and other stock, of the agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, mechanical, manufactur- 

 ing, and domestic products of such district, with view to the improvement of all the 

 industries in the same. 



Sec 13. The officers of such association shall consist of eight Directors, who shall con- 

 stitute a District Board of Agriculture for District Number , a President, who shall 



be one of their number, and a Secretary and Treasurer, not of their number. 



Sec 14. Within ten days after the formation of an agricultural association within any 

 of the districts above constituted, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and 

 notice of such formation to the Governor, the Governor shall appoint eight resident citi- 

 zens of such district as members of a District Board of Agriculture for said district, 

 whose term of office shall be four years, except as hereinafter provided. 



Sec 15. Within ten days after their appointment, the persons so appointed shall qual- 

 ify, as required by the Constitution, and shall meet at a place within the district, and 

 organize by the election of one of their number President of the Board and association, 

 who shall hold said office of President one year, and until his successor is elected ; they 

 shall also elect a Secretary and Treasurer. 



Sec 16. At the same meeting the members of the 'Board shall, by lot or otherwise, 

 classify themselves into four classes of two members each. The terms of office of the 

 first class shall expire at the end of the first fiscal year; of the second class, of the second 

 fiscal year; of the third class, of the third fiscal year; and of the fourth class, at the end 



