CONSTITUTION 



OP THE 



CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE I. NAME. 



Section 1. This society shall be called "The California State Agricultural 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 agricultural 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 interest. 



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 assessments. 



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

 may be elected an honorary or a corresponding member, and shall enjoy, free of charge, all the 

 privileges of the society, except voting and holding office. 



Sec. 4. 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 depart- 

 ments. 



Sec. 5. 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 society; 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. 



ARTICLE IV. — OFFICERS. 



Section 1. The officers of this society shall consist of a President and nine Directors, who- 

 shall constitute a State Board of Agriculture, five of whom shall constitute a quorum. They 

 shall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not members of the Board. They may also appoint, 

 annually, as officers of the Board, a chemist, a botanist, a meteorologist, a geologist, a metallur- 

 gist, an ornithologist, and an entomologist, and define the duties of each. They may a]3point 

 such committees on the various departments of agriculture, mining, and manufactures, either 

 generally, or for specific purposes, as they may deem important for the best interests of the 

 State, and require such committees to report the results of their investigations to the Board at 

 such times as may be named by them. 



