FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 15 



CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY FARMERS' INSTITUTE SOCIETIES. 



Article I. This organization shall be known as the County 



Farmers' Institute Society. 



Art. II. The object of this society shall be the holding of at least one Farmers' 

 Institute in this county each year, devoted to the dissemination among the people of 

 information which shall aid in teaching better methods of farming, stock-raising, 

 fruit culture, and all the branches of business connected with the industry of agri- 

 culture, and thus making the cultivation of the soil more profitable and rural life 

 more attractive. 



Art. III. Any resident of the county of legal age may become a member of this 



society by signing the constitution and paying a fee of cents, which shall be 



used for incidental expenses. This fee shall be the annual fee.* Only members of 

 the society shall vote at the election of officers. 



Art. IV. The officers of this society shall consist of a president, a vice president 

 from each township in the county, and a secretary who may also be treasurer. The 

 secretary shall keep, in a suitable book, a record of the transactions of the organiza- 

 tion and a complete list of its members and their postoffice addresses. He shall 

 also furnish to the Board of Agriculture such reports of the Institute as the Board 

 may direct. The details of the business of the society shall be in the hands of an 

 executive committee, consisting of the president, secretary, and three vice presi- 

 dents designated by the society. 



Art. V. The annual meeting of this society shall be held at the time of the annual 

 State Institute, and the election of officers shall take place at this time. 



Art. VI. This society shall meet the local expenses of State Institutes by mem- 

 bership dues or by voluntary contributions secured before the period of holding 

 such Institutes. 



Art. VII. This society shall endeavor to promote at the Institutes artistic and 

 educational displays of rural products and devices to lighten labor; to avoid all dis- 

 cussions of a partisan or sectarian nature; not to allow any person in the lectures 

 and discussions to advertise wares or schemes in which he has a direct or indirect 

 pecuniary interest; and to secure publicity to the proceedings. 



Art. VIII. This society shall be governed by, and shall at all times be subject to, 

 the laws of the State and the rules of the State Board of Agriculture governing 

 Farmers' Institutes. 



AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BY INSTITUTE SOCIETIES EXISTING AT 

 TIME OF PASSAGE OF LAW OF 1895. 



The Society of County, by its 



president and secretary, agrees to conform to the general rules of the State Board 

 of Agriculture governing Farmers' Institutes, and promises that, if it desires to con- 

 tinue as the Institute Society of said county, it will, at the first Institute held under 

 the auspices of said Board, adopt the constitution prescribed by the Board and elect 

 officers in accordance therewith. 

 A copy of the constitution and by-laws of this society is forwarded herewith. 



President. 



Secretary. 



AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



The County Agricultural Society, by 



its president and secretary, hereby agrees to conform to the rules of the State Board 

 of Agriculture govei^ning Farmers' Institutes, in so far as this society may desire to 

 use its organization for the purpose of conducting Farmers' Institutes in this 

 county under Act No. 166 of the Public Acts of 1895. 

 A copy of the constitution and by-laws of this society is transmitted herewith. 



President. 



Secretary. 



It is understood that a county agricultural society accepted as a county Institute 

 Society will not be required to change its constitution and by-laws. It must con- 

 form to all other rules of the Board. 



* The amoant of the fee can be determiaed and inserted by each society, tis it deems best. 



