STATE AGRICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 523 



A BILL for the government of the Michigan State Agricultural Society. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the corporation created 

 by act approved March 31, 1849, by the name of The Michigan State Agricultural Soci- 

 ety, shall possess the powers and rights and shall be governed by the regulations pre- 

 scribed in this act. 



Sec. 2. The object of said Society shall continue to be the promotion of agricultu- 

 ral, mechanical, and kindred arts in this State, and said Society shall possess the 

 powers and privileges, and be subject to the liabilities contained in chapter 130 of 

 the compiled laws of 1871, so far as the same may be applicable. 



Sec. 3. Said Society is authorized to take, hold, and convey, in addition to its library 

 and its scientific and agricultural collections, real and personal property in value not 

 exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. 



Sec. 4. The said Society shall transmit an annual report to the Secretary of State 

 on or before the 31st day of December in each year. Such report shall contain an 

 account of the general operations of the Society and such matters of general interest 

 to agriculturists as the Executive Committee of said Society may order to be placed 

 therein, and shall also contain an exact statement of the receipts and disbursements 



of tiie Society for the time embraced in said report, and copies of such report shall 



bo printed and bound annually, under the supervision of the Secretary ot State, in the 

 same manner and form as the report of the Board of Agriculture of the State, and when 



completed the Secretary of State shall deposit copies with the State Librarian, for 



the use of the State Library, and he shall send to the county clerks each a sufficient 

 number of copies so that one may be placed in each township and public school library, 

 and the remaining copies shall be sent to the Secretary of the Mighigan State Agri- 

 cultural Society, for the use of said Society, subject to the control of its Executive 

 Committee. 



Sec. 5. The office and library of said Society shall be at the city of Lansing, and the 

 Board of State Auditors are authorized and required to designate suitable rooms in 

 the capitol building for the use of said Society, provided that the rooms so designated 

 may also be used by the Michigan State Pomological Society for like purposes. The 

 said Society and its Executive Committee may hold their meetings at such place or 

 places within the State as the Executive Committee shall order. 



Sec. G, The Executive Committee and officers of said Society now in office shall 

 continue in office until the close of the year 1877, At the annual meeting and fair to 

 be held in the month of September or October next, there shall be elected by ballot 

 an Executive Committee of eighteen members, to be selected, two from each Con- 

 gressional district in this Stated one of whom from each of said districts shall hold his 

 office for one year and one for two years, to be determined by lot at the first meeting 

 of tlie Executive Committee held after January 1, 1878. The members so elected 

 shall enter upon the performance of their duties on the first day of January, 1878, 

 and thereafter the business and afl:airs of said Society shall be managed by tlie Ex- 

 ecutive Committee elected pursuant to the provisions of this act. Said Executive 

 Committee shall choose by ballot from among their own number one President, one 

 Vice President, one Secretary, and one Treasurer, who shall hold their offices as 

 such for one year, and until their successors shall respectively be elected: Provided, 

 That the Executive Committee maj^, on notice and hearing, remove any officer 

 from office for misfeasance or malfeasance in office. At each annual meeting and 

 fair after January 1st, 1878, there shall be elected by ballot nine members of the 

 Executive Committee, each to hold his office for the term of two years, to be selected 

 one from each Congressional District in this State : Provided, That should the number 

 of Congressional Districts in this State at a;iy time be increased or diminished, the 

 Executive Committee shall be increased or diminished accordinglj\ Within ten days 

 after any election of members of the Executive Committee, the Secretary shall give 

 written notice to the persons so elected, and each of the persons so elected shall there- 

 upon, within thirty days after the date of such notice, file with the Secretary a written 

 acceptance of the office. In case of neglect or refusal to do so, the office to which he 

 Avas elected shall, from the time its duties would commence, be deemed vacant. 



Sec. 7. All ex-Presidents of said Society are hereby made honorary members of 

 such Executive Committee, and may attend' its meetings and have a right to speak on 

 all matters but shall have no vote. 



Sec. 8. The officers and members of said Executive Committee shall receive no 

 compensation whatever for their services (except the Secretary and Treasurer), but 

 all members of the Executive Committee, except honorary members, shall be entitled 

 to have their actual necessary expenses, while engaged in the performance of their 

 •duties as such, paid from the treasury of the Society. The Secretary and Treasurer 



