STATE ORGANIZATION. 101 



CONSTITUTION. 



I. We, the Farmers of Tennessee, in Convention as 

 sembled, in order to form a more perfect union, promote 

 the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to 

 ourselves and our posterity, do establish this State organiza 

 tion, which shall be known as, and styled, the TENNESSEE 

 FARMERS ASSOCIATION. 



II. Its object shall be the promotion of the moral, intel 

 lectual, social, and pecuniary welfare of the farmers of the 

 State. 



III. Its members shall consist of delegates from the 



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various Farmers Clubs, Granges, and Agricultural and Hor 

 ticultural Societies of the State, each of which shall be entitled 

 to at least one delegate, and where the number of its mem 

 bers exceeds fifty, to one delegate additional for each one 

 hundred members or fraction exceeding half that number. 

 The members of the State Bureau of Agriculture, also the 

 President and Professors of the Agricultural College of the 

 State, shall be, ex-offido, members of this Association, and 

 from counties, or from civil districts, in which no form of 

 farmers organization exists, farmers not delegates may be 

 admitted by a vote of this Association. All members shall 

 pay an annual fee of one dollar. 



IV. Its officers shall consist of a President, and a Vice- 

 President from each Congressional district of the State to 

 be nominated by the delegates therefrom; of a Secretary 



