LAWS 



OF 



THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY 



FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. 



I.— NAME OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Society shall be styled, THE PHILADELPHIA 

 SOCIETY FOR PROiMOTING AGRICULTURE. 



II.— OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Society's attention shall be confined to agriculture and 

 rural affairs. 



III.— OFFICERS AND MODES OF ELECTION. 

 The Society shall have a President, and four Vice-Presi- 

 dents, a Treasurer, five Curators, a Secretary and an Assis- 

 tant Secretary and Librarian, all of whom shall be annually 

 elected by the tickets of a majority of the members present 

 at the stated meeting of the Society in January ; the offi- 

 cers not then elected may be chosen at any stated meet- 

 ing thereafter on being riominated at a preceding meet- 

 ing, and such intention shall be duly notified in a public 

 news-paper and in a reasonable time before the meeting, at 

 which a choice is to be made. The persons, so elected, to 

 continue in office one year, and until others are chosen in 

 their stead. In case of any vacancy, by death, resignation, 

 or otherwise, the same may be supplied by a new election, 

 to be made at any stated meeting of the Society, the person 

 thus newly elected to serve the remainder of the year. 



