596 BOARD OK AGRICULTURE. 



Article III— Mauagemeiit and Officers. 



Section 1. The affairs of this association shall be managed by a board 

 of five directors. Such directors shall be elected by ballot at the annual 

 meeting of the Association to serve for the term of one year. The Dean 

 of the College of Agriculture of the State of Illinois shall be an ex-officio 

 member of the Board of Directors in addition to the five directors above 

 provided. 



Sec. 2. At the close of the annual meeting the Board of Directors 

 shall immediately convene, and from their number shall elect by ballot 

 one President, one Vice-President, and one Secretary-Treasurer to serve 

 for one year. 



Sec. 3. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association 

 and of the Board of Directors, shall appoint all special and standing 

 committees to be approved by the Board of Directors. He shall make 

 an annual report to the Association at the annual meeting, which closes 

 the term for vphich he vs^as elected, and shall in said report make such 

 recommendations to the Association as may seem to him expedient. 



The Secretary shall attend the annual meeting and all meetings of 

 the Board of Directors. All books, records and certificates and seals shall 

 be in his custody and shall be open to inspection of any member of the 

 Association at any reasonable time. He shall give due notice of all 

 meetings, both of the Association and of the Board of Directors; shall 

 notify all members of their election; shall conduct the correspondence 

 of the Association, and shall make an annual report. 



The Treasurer shall collect all initiation fees and dues and give re- 

 ceipts for same to members; he shall keep all such moneys safely and 

 shall pay out such money only upon order of the Board of Directors, 

 properly countersigned by the President, and shall make an annual report 

 of his receipts and disbursements, and reports at other times, as may be- 

 required by the Board of Directors. 



Sec. 4. The location of the office of the Association shall be desig- 

 nated each year by the Board of Directors, and shall be announced at 

 the closing session of the annual meeting for that year. 



Sec. 5. The Board of Directors shall meet as often as the manage- 

 ment of the affairs of the Association may require, not to exceed four 

 times each year, including the annual meeting. And the Board of Di- 

 rectors shall select a competent person as inspector of the breeding of 

 corn, whose duty it shall be to carefully inspect and record the variety, 

 the type and breed, and the number of bushels of the corn grown by 

 each member of the Association who desires to enter such corn for sale 

 for seed. The compensation for such inspector to be determined by the 



