48 Transactions of the 



AN ACT 



SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY, APPROVED MAY THIRTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUN- 

 DRED AND FIFTY-FOUR, AND AMENDED MARCH TWENTIETH, 

 EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT. 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, 



do enact as follows: 



Section 1. The general prudential and financial affairs of the society 

 shall be intrusted to a Board of Agriculture, to consist of a President 

 and nine Directors, five of whom shall constitute a quorum. 



[Amended section.] 



Sec. 2. Said Board of Agriculture shall be elected at a general State 

 Agricultural Convention, to be held at the Capital of the State, in the 

 year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in the month of March, and in 

 the month of January every year thereafter, to consist of the life mem- 

 bers and annual members of the State Agricultural Society and four 

 delegates from each County Agricultural Society within this State, 

 incorporated under the general laws of this State for such corporations, 

 and an equal number from each District Agricultural Society, also incor- 

 porated under the general laws of this State for such purposes; said 

 delegates to be chosen at the annual Fair or annual meeting of each 

 such society next preceding the State Agricultural Convention; provided, 

 said Convention to be held in March, in the year eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-three, may admit any person or persons representing any of said 

 County or District Agricultural Societies, as the Convention may deter- 

 mine by a majority vote, whether such persons shall have been elected 

 by their respective County or District Societies, as provided in this Act, 

 or not. 



Sec. 3. The Board of Agriculture shall, at its first meeting after its 

 election, be divided by lot into three equal portions (omitting the Presi- 

 dent), one portion to continue in office one year, one portion two years, 

 and one portion three years; one third of the number, together with 

 the President, to be elected at the State Agricultural Convention annu- 

 ally thereafter; the Directors to hold office three years. 



Sec. 4. The Board of Agriculture may, in the absence of the Presi- 

 dent, choose one of its other members temporary Chairman. They 

 shall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not members of the Board, pre- 

 scribe their duties, fix their pay; and the said Treasurer and Secretary 

 shall lie subject to removal at any time by a majority of said Board. 



Sec. 5. The Board of Agriculture shall use all suitable means to 

 collect and diffuse all classes of information calculated to aid in the 

 development ol* the agricultural, stock raising, mineral, mechanical, and 

 manufacturing resources of the State; shall hold an annual exhibition 

 of the industry and products of the State; and, on or before the first 

 clay of January of each year in which the Legislature shall be in regu- 

 lar session, they shall furnish, to the Governor a lull ami detailed 

 account of all its transactions, including all the facts elicited, statistics 

 collected, and information gained on the subject for which it exists; and 

 also a distinct financial account of all funds received, from whatever 



