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under the direction of the Board, all printing and publishing necessary for the prosperity of the 

 society. 



ARTICLE VI. DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS. 



Section 1. All donations, bequests, and legacies to this society, designated by the donors for 

 any particular purpose embraced within the objects of the society, shallbe with strict fidelity so 

 applied; and the name of each donor, together with the amount and description of such dona- 

 tion, and the object for which it was designated, shall be registered in a book kept expressly for 

 that purpose. 



ARTICLE VII. MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS. 



Section 1. Exhibitions. — The society shall hold an annual fair and cattle show in the City 

 of Sacramento, and may, at its discretion, hold such other exhibitions as it may deem conducive 

 to the interests of agriculture. 



Sec. 2. Annual Meeting. — The annual meeting shall be held at the Capital of the State, at 

 such time during the month of January in each year as the Board may designate, at which time 

 all the officers from whom reports of the preceding year's service are required shall present the 

 same, and all officers for the ensuing year shall be elected by ballot; and all officers shall con- 

 tinue in office until their successors are duly qualified. 



Sec. 3. Special Meetings, how called. — No special meeting of the society shall be called but 

 upon thirty days' notice in the columns of a newspaper published in each of the Cities of San 

 Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville, and Stockton; nor without a request signed by at least ten 

 members. 



Sec. 4. Proxy Voting. — It shall not be admissible for any member to vote by proxy in any 

 meeting of this society, or its Board of Managers. 



Sec. 5. Quorum of the Society. — At any meeting of this society, fifteen members (a majority 

 of whom shall represent counties other than the one where the meeting shall be held) shall con- 

 stitute a quorum. 



ARTICLE IX. — OFFICE AND ROOMS. 



Section 1. The office, rooms, library, and cabinet of the society shall be permanently located 

 at the Capital of the State. 



ARTICLE X.— AMENDMENTS. 



Section 1. Amendments to this Constitution must be presented in writing at an annual 

 meeting, when, if unanimously agreed to, they shall be adopted ; but if there be objection, and 

 a majority consent thereto, they shall be spread upon the minutes and lie over until the next 

 annual meeting, when they shall be read, and if, after due discussion, two-thirds of all the 

 members present vote for the amendments, they shall be adopted and become a part and parcel 

 of this Constitution. 



ARTICLE XI. EFFECT. 



Section 1. This Constitution shall take effect from and after its passage. 



I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Constitution of the California State Agricultural 

 Society, as amended by unanimous consent at the annual meeting of the society, held on the 

 twenty-eighth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. 



ROBT. BECK, Corresponding Secretary. 



