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shall be entitled to such annual salary as the Executive Committee shall from time to 

 time fix. 



Sec. 9. Should any officer or member of the Executive Committee neglect to per- 

 form his duties as such, he may, after due notice, be removed from office by a two- 

 thirds vote of the remaining members of the Executive Committee. All vacancies in 

 the Executive Committee, however occasioned, may be filled by appointment from 

 the proper district, by the Executive Committee, until the next election. Should any 

 member of tlie Executive Committee remove his residence outside tlie district for 

 wliich he is chosen, such removal shall terminate his said office. 



Sec. 10. The Executive Committee are authorized to malve by-laws for tlae govern- 

 ment of the Society and prescribing the powers and duties of tlie several officers, and 

 providing for such sub-committees and assistants, with their powers and duties, as to 

 said Executive Committee shall seem proper. Such by-laws may be altered or amend- 

 ed at any time by a unanimous vote of the members of the Executive Committee 

 present at a regular meeting, but no alteration shall be made therein (except by a 

 unanimous vote) until such alteration or amendment shall have been proposed at a 

 meeting of the Executive Committee, been published in one or more newspapers in 

 the State, and laid over for consideration at least sixty days after the first publication, 

 and again submitted to a vote of the Executive Committee, when, if it shall receive 

 a majority vote, it shall be adopted. 



Sec. 11. A majority of said Executive Committee shall be a quorum for the trans- 

 action of business. 



Sec. 12. The Executive Committee shall determine the place for holding each 

 annual meeting and fair of this Society, and shall call sucli meeting and fair at such 

 time in the month of September or October in each year as it may determine, giving 

 at least sixty days' public notice thereof. 



Sec. 13. The Executive Committee shall direct the money appropriations of the 

 Society, and shall have the control of its finances and property, and may direct its 

 investments, and sliall make the necessary appropriation for the annual fair, and issue 

 all proper public notices and circulars in relation thereto. The Executive rjommittee 

 shall be bound by the provisions of this act and by the by-laws of tlie Society, and also 

 by such instructions as may be given to it at the annual meeting and fair of the Soci- 

 ety in matters not herein or in said bj'-laws specially provided for; and it shall be 

 the duty of the Executive Committee to see that the annual report is prepared for 

 the Secretaiy of State, as herein provided. 



Sec. 14, Said Executive Committee may annually regulate and award premiums on 

 sucli articles, productions, and improvements as they may deem best calculated to 

 promote the objects of the Society. 



Sec. 15. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the Societj', and keep 

 an accurate account thereof, showing from what source received by items; and he 

 shall pay the same out only by order of the Executive Committee, certified b.y the 

 Secretary and countersigned by the President, and at tlie meeting of the Executive 

 Committee next after each annual meeting and fair of the Society, he shall make a 

 full report by items of its financial transactions and condition. He shall give bonds 

 to the Society as securitj'" for the faithful performance of his duties in such amount 

 and with such sureties as the Executive Committee shall prescribe and approve. 



Sec. 16. The Secretary shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received by him, 

 showing by items the source from whence received, and such moneys shall be paid over 

 by hi nV without abatement to the Treasurer. The Secretarj^ shall make a report to 

 the Society, at the meeting of the Executive Committee next after each annual meet- 

 ing and fair of the Society, which report shall state by items all moneys received by 

 him, and shall also state the dates at which the same are paid over to the Treasurer, 

 and the amount paid at each time. Such report shall also show all Avarrants drawn on 

 the Treasurer, and the specific purpose for which each warrant is drawn. The Secre- 

 tary shall give a bond to the Society in such amount and with such sureties as the 

 Executive Committee shall prescribe and approve. 



Sec. 17. The bonds to be given by the Secretary and Treasurer, as provided by this 

 act, shall by the Executive Committee be deposited with the State Treasurer, at 

 Lansing, for safe keeping. 



Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee anmiallj', or oftener, to 

 settle with the Treasurer and the Secretary. The Treasurer shall deposit or invest 

 the moneys of the Society in such place or manner as the Executive Committee shall 

 order, and he shall, while such moneys are in his hands, keep the same separate from 

 his own moneys, and the moneys of any other person or corporation. He shall not 

 use nor permit them to be used, except in pursuance of authority given him in accord- 

 ance with tliis act. 



