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appoint some committee to work with the other committees in helping 

 quell the troubled waters if possible. 



Mr. Brown: I understand that it is the wish entirely of the 

 State Board of Agriculture that we here apTicint a member of that 

 committee. I do not think there is a memoer of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society, but what has the utmost confidence in the officers 

 and members of the State Board of Agriculture. We believe 



thoroughly that they are working in the very best interests of the 

 folate as they see it, and I think we should accede to their wishes 

 and I place in nomination the name of Mr. Duncan our secretary, as 

 a member of that committee. That committee will probably hold 

 lengthy sessions here in the city of Lincoln, and Mr. Duncan has his 

 office and residence in this city, and will be ready at all times to do 

 tliat. I move therefore that this society accode to their wishes and 

 appoint Mr. Duncan as a member of the committee. 



Seconded. Carried. 

 Mr. Pollard: I have been looking over our constitution, and with 

 particular reference to the duties of the vice-president, and it occurred 

 to me that we should amend article six of orr constitution, and 

 I wish to give notice, — I believe under our constitution it was. 

 necessary to give notice, — at one meeting, or the meeting (preceding 

 the meeting in which action was taken, in amending the constitution. 



Article six as it now stands, reads as follows: "The vice-presi- 

 dent shall superintend all exhibits of the society and in case of 

 vacancy in the office of president at any meeting of the society, 

 the board of directors, shall perform all the functions of that office, 

 in order of their rank." Now I know that a number of years ago, 

 I served on the Executive Board of Directors of the Horticultural 

 So'ciety and I know at times it was impossible for one of the vice- 

 presidents to be at the fair. And it was rccessary for the board 

 to appoint somebody. There is no provision made for that in the 

 constitution at all. Now it occurred to me it would be better to 

 leave that open. Now often it so happens that the vice-presidents are 

 tied up in a business wav, and for that reason somebody else should 

 be appointed in their place, and it might be that someone else, — 

 tfike in my own case, — I happen to be elected as one of the vice- 

 presidents, — it might be that someone who has for a number of years 

 acted as a superintendent of one of the buildings or halls, at the 

 State Pair, and I could not be there all the week and he could 

 be there all the week. And so I move to amend aritcle six of the 

 Constitution by striking out the following "The vice-president shall 

 superintend all of the exhibits of the state fair." 



The Chairman: This motion will come up at the next session. 

 The by-laws call for submission at one session and that it lie over 

 until the next session, so that the members v.'ill have notice of such 

 a change in the laws. 



