Vlll ■ CONSTITUTION. 



The Treasurer shall keep the funds of the Society, and dis 

 burse them on the order of the President or a Vice President 

 countersigned by the Recording Secretary, and shall make a 

 report of the receipts and expenditures at the annual meeting in 

 February. 



The Executive Committee shall take charge of and distribute 

 or preserve all seeds, plants, books, models, &c., which may be 

 transmitted to the Society ; and shall have also the charge of all 

 communications designed or calculated for publication, and so far 

 as they may deem expedient, shall collect, arrange and publish 

 the same in such manner and form .as they shall deem best calcu- 

 lated to promote the objects of the Society. 



The General Committee are charged with the interests of the 

 Society in the counties in which they shall respectively reside, 

 and will constitute a medium of communication between the 

 Executive Committee and the remote members of tlie Society. 



Sec. 4. There shall be an annual meeting of the Society on the 

 second Wednesday of February, in the city of Albany, at which 

 time all the officers shall be elected by a plurality of votes and 

 by ballot, with the exception of the General Committee for the 

 counties, which may be appointed by the Executive Committee, 

 who shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in 

 the officers of the Society during the year. Extra meetings may 

 be convoked by the Executive Committee, Fifteen members 

 shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. 



Sec. 5. The Society shall hold an Annual Cattle Show and Fair 

 at such time and j)lace as shall be designated by the Executive 

 Committee. 



Sec. 6. This Constitution may be amended by a vote of two- 

 thirds of the members attending any annual meeting, upon one 

 year's previous notice in writing. 



State Agricultural Rooms, ) 

 February, 1857. ^ 



I certify the above to be a true copy of the Constitution of the 



New- York State Agricultural Society. 



B. P. JOHNSON, 



Cor. Secretary. 



