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CONSTITUTION. 



Section 1. This organization shall be known as the Farmers' State 

 Congress of Indiana, and its object shall be to advance the agricultural 

 interests of the State. 



Sec. 2. This Congress shall be composed of one delegate from each 

 county, one delegate from each congressional district and two delegates 

 from the State at large, the district and State at large delegates being the 

 regular credentialed delegates to the National Farmers' Congress; one dele- 

 gate from the State Horticultural Society, one delegate from the Depart- 

 ment of State Forestry and one delegate from the Purdue School of 

 Agriculture. 



Sec. 3. The officers of this organization shall consist of a President, 

 Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall serve for a term 

 of two years, and shall be elected viva voce or by ballot, as the Congress 

 may decide. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings 

 of the Congress, to communicate with them in regard to the objects in 

 view and advise with the other officials of the organization, so as to assist 

 them in their duties. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Vice-President to assume all the 

 duties of the President in case of his absence or Inability to preside. 



Sec. 6. The Secretary shall keep a complete record of all the pro- 

 ceedings of the Congress, keep all papers belonging to same and furnish 

 copies when requested to do so by the President. 



Sec. 7. The Treasurer shall take charge of all monies paid to him, 

 keep a true and perfect account of the same, and pay out only on orders 

 by the President, countersigned by the Secretary. 



Sec. 8. The chairman of each County Farmers' Institute of the State 

 shall be the regular delegate to represent his county. Each County and 

 Supplementary Institute is requested to select in open session one or more 

 "associate" delegates. Each county shall be entitled to only one vote, ex- 

 cept the district vote. If any regular delegate is unable to attend he 

 shall appoint his own alternate, who shall have all the rights and privi- 

 leges of the regular delegate. Any farmer in the State may be an asso- 

 ciate delegate with all the privileges of the regular delegate, excepting 

 the right of voting. 



Sec. 9. The annual dues to this Congress shall be one dollar for each 

 regular delegate. 



