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Sec. 3. Visiting Committee. — The Visiting Committee shall consist of 

 three, whose duty it shall be to visit and examine all farms, orchards, 

 vineyards, nurseries, field crops, mining claims, ditches, mills, etc., which 

 may be entered for competition, and which shall require examination at 

 other times and places than the annual fair; to award premiums for the 

 same, according to the schedule, and recommend such gratuities as they 

 may deem proper, and make a full report to the Board at least one day 

 previous to the annual meeting. 



Sec 4. Committee of Publication. — The Committee of Publication shall 

 consist of three (the President and Secretary being two), whose duty it 

 shall be to contract for and superintend, under the direction of the Board, 

 all printing and publishing necessarj' for the prosperity of the society. 



ARTICLE VI. — DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS. 



Section 1. All donations, bequests and legacies to this society, desig- 

 nated by the donors for any particular purpose embraced within the 

 objects of the society, shall be with strict fidelity so applied; and the 

 name of each donor, together with the amount and description of such 

 donation, 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 agri- 

 culture. 



Sec 2. Annual Meeting. — The annual meeting shall beheld at the Capi- 

 tal 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 continue 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, Marys- 

 ville and Stockton ; nor without a request signed by at least ten mem- 

 bers. 



Sec 4. Proxy Voting. — It shall not be admissable 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 thau the one 

 where the meeting shall be held) shall constitute a quorum. 



ARTICLE VIH. 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 IX. 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, 



