TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



A COMPILATION 



OF ALL THE LAWS NOW IN FORCE RELATING TO OR AFFECTING THE STATU 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AND APPROPRIATE 



MONEY FOR ITS SUPPORT. 



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



-noN 1. There is hereby established and incorporated a society to be known and desig- 

 nated by the name and style of the "California State Agricultural Society," and by that 

 name and style -hall have perpetual succession, and -hall have power to contract and be con- 

 tracted with, to sue and be sued, and shall have authority to have and use a common Bei 

 make, ordain, and establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, rules, and regula- 

 tions as shall be necessarj for th< good government of said society, and the prudent and efficient 

 management of its affairs; provided, that said laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations shall not 

 be contrary to any provision of this charter, nor the laws and Constitution of this Slate, or of 

 the United Si 



Sec. 2. In addition to the powers above enumerated, the society shall, by its name aforesaid, 

 have power to purchase and hold any quantity of land, not exceeding four sections, and may 

 and dispose of the same at pleasure. The said real estate shall be held by said society for 

 the sole purpose of establishing a model experimental farm or farms, erecting inclo uild- 



. and other improvements calculated and designed for the meeting of the society, and for an 

 exhibition of the various breeds of horses, cattle, mules, anil other stock, and of agricultural, 

 mech ad domestic manufactures and productions, and for no other purp 



And be it further enacted, That if, from any cause, said society shall ever be dissolved, or fail 

 to meet within the period of two consecutive years, then the real estate held by it, together with 

 all the buildings and appurtenances belonging to said estate, shall be sold as lands are now sold 

 by execution, and the proceeds deposited in the State treasury, subject to the control of 

 Legislature. 



AN ACT 



SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCI- 

 ETY, APPROVED MAY THIRTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR, 

 AND AMENDED MARCH TWENTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY- 

 EIGHT. 



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



Section 1. The general prudential and financial affairs of ety shall he intrusted to a 



Board of Agriculture, to consist of a President and nine Directors, five of whom shall constitute 

 a quorum. 



c. 2. Said Board of Agriculture shall be elected at a general State Agricultural Conven- 

 tion, to be held at the i ear eighteen hundred and sixty- three, in the 

 month of March, and in the month of .Ian nary every year thereafter, to consist of the life mem- 

 bers and annual n of the State Agricultural Society and lour delegates from each County 

 Agrii ty within this State, incorporated under the general laws of this State for such 

 eorpo , and an equal number from each District Agricultural Society, also incorpor 

 under the general laws of this Stale for such purp at the annual 

 fair or annual meetiDg of each such society next pn the State Agricultural Convention 



