CONSTITUTION 



OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE I. — NAME. 



Section 1. This society shall be called " The California State Agri- 

 cultural Society." 



ARTICLE II. — OBJECT. 



Section 1. It shall be the object of this society to encourage the cul- 

 tivation 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 cal- 

 culated to increase the happiness of home life. 



Sec. 3. To extend and facilitate the various branches of mining and 

 mining interests. 



article hi. — 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 dol- 

 lars, 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 assess- 

 ments. 



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 mem- 

 ber 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 exhi- 



