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then the real estate held by it, together with all the buildings and appur- 

 tenances 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 the Legislature. 



AN ACT 



SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A STATE AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY, APPROVED MAY THIRTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED 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 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the month of March, 

 and in the month of January every year thereafter, to consist of the life 

 members 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 beheld in March, in the year one thousand eight hundred 

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

 said County or District Agricultural Societies, as the convention may 

 determine 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 annually 

 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, prescribe 

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

 be 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 devel- 



