680 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



meeting and to perform such other duties as may properly devolve upon 

 an executive committee. 



2. Each club shall be entitled to send two delegates to the meetings 

 of the Association, who, before being seated, shall present proper cre- 

 dentials. 



3. The officers of this Association shall assume the duties of their 

 respective offices immediately upon the close of each annual meeting. 



4. The Faculty of the Agricultural College shall be admitted to all 

 the privileges of the floor, but shall not be entitled to vote. 



5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Association, upon ap- 

 plication from any Farmers' Club for speakers or instructors on any of 

 the subjects pertaining to the interests of such club, to designate the 

 club, which, in his judgment, may best perform such service. The club, 

 so designated, shall elect from their number a suitable person or per- 

 sons to perform such service. The actual expense of such speaker or 

 instructor shall be paid by the club making the application. 



6. Amendments — The Constitution or By-Laws may be amended at 

 any annual meeting of the Association. Such amendments shall require 

 a two-thirds vote. 



7. A membership fee of one dollar from each club belonging to the 

 Association shall be paid on or before the date of the annual meeting of 

 the Association each year. If any club fail to renew its membership as 

 specified above, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to ascertain if such 

 club desires to continue in the Association; if it does not, its name shall 

 be dropped from the roll. 



DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES ADOPTED AT THE ANNUAL 



MEETING, 18117. 



The following report of the Committee on Legislation was adopted by 

 the Association at its annual meeting in 1897 ; as a Declaration of Prin- 

 ciples: 



LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS -STATE. 



1. Believing in the principle of local control of local affairs as enun- 

 ciated in a bill introduced in the last legislature, known as the County 

 Salaries Bill, Resolved, That we reaffirm our declaration that all county 

 officials be paid in full for their respective services by stated salaries 

 fixed by the respective Board of Supervisors, and that it be made a 

 criminal offense for such officials to receive any fees, or other perqui- 

 sites in addition to their salaries. Further, that the fees collected in 

 the county offices be re-adjusted on an equitable basis, and that here- 

 after all such fees be turned into the county treasury, and become part 

 of the genera] fund. 



2. Resolved, That we endorse the contract system of prison labor 

 and reaffirm that our prisoners should in the aggregate be made self- 

 supporting. 



'A. Believing the question of equitable taxation to be (he greatest 

 unsolved question before the people of this State today, we re-affirm 

 our resolution of a year ago, concerning taxation, ami pledge the loyal 



