SPAIN - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



supplied in their interest, at the most advantageous prices possible ; may 

 avail themselves of all the association's existing and future enterprise; 

 may freely receive all the publications issued by the association at its own 

 cost, unless the council decide to place on these a price, which shall be 

 as near as possible to cost price ; and finally they may use the association's 

 reading-room and librar}'-. 



]\Iembers are obliged to pay the subscription incident in the class 

 to which they belong. If they neglect to do so three times successively 

 they will be considered to have resigned but will still be liable for the omit- 

 ted subscriptions. They are further obliged to discharge all commissions 

 and trusts confided to them, imless they have a justifiable excuse for not 

 fulfilling this duty. 



Single and collective members and the groups of these may, if they 

 live in the same district or province, unite to form an affiliated delegation 

 of the society which will forward the local social and agricultural interests. 

 With this aim such delegations will be able to found workmen's clubs which 

 will possess libraries and reading-rooms, and will do all that is possible 

 to strengthen the comradeship of their members, to facilitate the exchange 

 of ideas and to disseminate useful knowledge. These delegations will 

 moreover give an impulse to the formation of local agronomic labora- 

 tories and museums, with the official help of other and analogous institu- 

 tions. They are finally the connecting link between the members and 

 the association at IMadrid, to which they should remit a -report of their 

 work ever}^ three years. 



The association's property is constituted by the members' subscrip- 

 tions, by donations and by any grants which it may receive. In the case 

 of its dissolution its available resources and the value of its moveable pro- 

 perty will be assigned by the council to some object covered by the asso- 

 ciation's general aims, the amount necessary to meet its debts being de- 

 ducted. 



The association is administered by a general meeting and an adminis- 

 trative council. The ordinary general meetings are held annually in the 

 first fortnight in May in order to approve the council's report of its acti- 

 vity, to examine the accoimts for the preceding year, to determine the bud- 

 get for the coming year, and to deliberate on proposals with a view to real- 

 izing the association's general aims. 



The administrative council is composed of a chairman, six vice-chair- 

 men, a general secretary, two assistant secretaries, a treasurer, a vice-treas- 

 urer, an accountant, a librarian-archivist and fifty voting members. The 

 chairman is the president of the association, is elected for six years and 

 ma}^ be re-elected. Half the other offices become vacant every three 

 y ears, in order of the seniority of the officials who are indefinitely eligible 

 for re-election. Offices in the council are honorar}" and unpaid. Officials 



(i) In igi5-iQi6 members' subscriptions amounted to 13,487 pesetas and grants to 8,500 

 pesetas. 



