622 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



CONSTITUTION. 



Name. The style of this society shall be "The Iowa State Agricultural Society. " 

 Its object shall be the promotion of Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures, Mechanics 

 and Household Arts. 



Section 1. The society shall consist of such citizens of 'the State as shall signify by 

 writing or otherwise, their wishes to become members, and shall pay upon subscribing, 

 not less than o??e dollar, and one dollar annually thereafter; which fee shall be paid on or 

 before the first day of June. Also of honorary and corresponding members. 



Sec. 2. The officers shall consist of a president, vice-president, and three directors, 

 from each county society, who, together shall cotistitute a board of control for the 

 general management of the business of the society. 



Sec. 3. The recording secretary shall keep the minutes of the society. The cor- 

 responding secretary shall carry on the correspondence with other societies, with indi- 

 viduals and with general committees, in the furtherance of the objects of the society. 



Sec. 4. The treasurer shall keep the funds of the society and shall disburse them on 

 the order of the president, or the board of control, countersigned by the recording secre- 

 tary, and shall make report of their receipts and expenditure-* at the annual meeting. He 

 shall give bond in the penal sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for the faithful per- 

 formance of his duties, and the payment of all moneys in his hands. 



Sec. 5. The board of control shall take charge of, aid distribute and preserve all 

 seeds, books, plants, medals, etc. , which may be transmitted to the society, and shall 

 also have the charge of all communication designed or calculated for publication ; and so 

 far as they may deem expedient, may collect, arrange and publish the same, in such a 

 manner as they may deem best calculated to promote the object of this society. 



Sec. 6. The managers are charged with the interests of the society in counties in 

 which they shall respectively reside, and will constitute a medium of communication be- 

 tween the board of control and the remote members of the society. 



Sec. 7. There shall be a meeting of the society at the place for the fair on the2oth day 

 of October, 1854, and at such time thereafter as the board of control may direct, at which 

 time all the officers of the society shall be elected by a majority of the members present 

 by ballot. Extra meetings may be convened by a call of the president at one months' 

 notice. Nine members shall constitute a quorum for the transation of business. 



Sec. 8. The constitution may be amended by a vote of two -thirds of the members 

 attending any annual meeting of the society, after two months' notice of such amend- 

 ment being given through the public papers of the State. 



BY-LAWS. 



Article 1. The president shall preside at all meetings of the board of control of the 

 society. He shall deliver all premiums and diplomas for articles exhibited at the fairs of 

 the society, to persons entitled thereto, and when the same are to be paid in money, he 

 shall draw orders therefor on the treasurer. He shall also perform all other duties usually 

 pertaining to such oflB.ce. 



Art. 2. The vice-president shall in case of death, sickness, absence, or resignation of 

 the president, perform all the duties of the president till the next annual'election. 



Art. 3. All members of the society who have paid their annual fee, shall be admitted 

 free to all exhibitions of tne society, and the board of control shall each year fix the prices 

 of admission to the exhibition of all persons not members. 



Art. 4. Competitors for crops shall state In writing the character of the ground, the 

 time and method of preparing it, the time of planting or sowing, the mode of cultivation, 

 the kind of seed, the time of reaping or gathering it, with the number of bushels to the 

 acre; which must be certified to by at least two disinterested persons, or be duly authenti- 

 cated by oath of the competitor himself ; and no crop shall come into competition unless 

 these regulations be complied with. 



Art. 5. No animal or article on exhibition, which has taken two premiums at pre. 

 vious fairs of the society, in the same class, will be allowed to be entered. 



Art. 6. Mt-mbers neglecting to pay their annual fee until the day of exhibition will 

 be charged twenty-five cents in addition to it. 



The committee suggest that Fairfield, Jefferson county, is the most suit- 

 able place for holding the First Annual Fair in 1854. 



