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entitled to the same rights uiul privileges in all respects as other members of the 

 Society. To entitle such life members to the privilege of voting, the certificates of 

 life membership now held should be surrendered to the Secretary, who will furnish 

 them with new certificates of the form herein provided, and tlie Secretary shall 

 make a careful registry of certificates of life membership so issued, with number of 

 certificate, date of issue and name of member, which register shall at all elections 

 be placed in the hands of the inspectors of election, and shall be sufticient evi- 

 dence of membership and right to vote, without the production at the polls of the 

 Life Membership Certificate. 



Certificates of life membership so issued and registered, shall be in the following 

 form: 



This certifies that is a Life Member of the Michigan 



State Agricultural Societj'. 



Attest. 

 I --^ — ■ ) Secretary President. 



■| SEAL. [- 



( . — , — ) [Endorsement on Back.'] 



This certificate when duly registered by the Secretary, entitles the person named 

 therein to all the rights and privileges of a member of the Michigan State Agricul- 

 tural Society. 



Duly registered this day of , 18. 



Secretary. 



Amend Knle 7, Article 2, ofticers, by adding to said rule as follows: Such Super- 

 intendents of each division shall be provided with a suitable oftice in the department 

 of the hall and grounds assigned them, which shall be designated by appropriate and 

 conspicuous signs. 



Superintendents of departments requiring an assistant may appoint such assistant 

 by and with tiie advice and consent of the President. Each superintendent of a 

 department may also appoint a messenger, and if more than one messenger is con- 

 sidered necessary in any department, additional messengers may be appointed by and 

 with the advice and consent of the President. Each superintendent of a depart- 

 ment shall in person or by his assistant and messenger be present at his office during 

 hours of exhibition. 



Amend list of Executive Superintendents by striking out after "• police," the words, 

 '•and gates," and add at end of list as follows: 



" The gates and gate keepers, and the tickets taken up at the gates, shall be under 

 the direction and control of the Finance Committee, who may make and cancel 

 appointments of gate keepers, and shall have an office at the grounds convenient to 

 the gates during the fair, etc." Gate keepers shall not be appointed from persons 

 residing nearer the place of holding the fair than fifty miles. 



Amend Article 2, clause 4, election of officers, by inserting after the word " mem- 

 ber " in first line "other than life member," by adding between the words "shall" 

 and "present" in the first line, the words " in person," so that said clause sliall read, 

 "each member, other than life members, desiring to vote, shall in person present a 

 membership ticket, and adding a life member shall vote in person. 



Amend Article 2, of same rules and regulations, by adding a new section to stand 

 as section 12, page 22, 



Section 12. No obligations against this society shall be created by any ofiicers of 

 the society or member of the excecutive comnuttee, without the written consent of 

 the President or Chairman of the Business Committee. 



Amend Article 1, general rules and regulations, exhibitors, rule 4, as amended in 

 1878 (page 18, premium list 1878), so that the same will read as follows: " All entric^^ 

 in the division of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, sliall be made on or before Tues- 

 day evening of the week preceding the fair, and in divisions E, H, and G, up to and 

 including class 39, on or before Thursday evening of the week preceding the fair 

 (the rest of the rule as amended 1S7S, page 18). 



Amend Rule 12, Article 4, exhibitors, so that same shall read as follows: 



12, The name and residence of the exhibitor and number of exhibit in the class, 

 will be entered in Secretary's books upon entry cards and upon the books of the 

 Viewing Committee. 



Amend Rule 15, Article 4, Exhibited, hy adding the following: 



Superintendents will procure such attendants tickets at the office of the President, 

 and each Executive Superintendent shall personally be at his office from 4 to 5 o'clock 

 P. M,, during each d a j' of the fair, during which time exhibitors entitled to such 

 attendant's tickets shall personally apply for the same, and tlie Superintendent shall 

 keep a record of the names of such exhibitors and the number of tickets daily sup- 

 plied to each. 



