48 Cooperation in Agriculture 



shall set forth a general rule or rules applicable to all 

 members by which the voting power and the property 

 rights and interests, respectively, of each member may and 

 shall be determined and fixed, but the association shall 

 have power to admit new members who shall be entitled 

 to vote and to share in the property of the association 

 with the old members, in accordance with such general 

 rule. This provision of the articles of incorporation shall 

 not be altered, amended, or repealed except by unanimous 

 written consent or the vote of all the members." 



Under the California law each association may by its 

 by-laws approve 



" The amount of membership fee, if any, and the amount which 

 each member shall be required to pay annually, or from time to 

 time, if at all, to carry on the business of the association. 



" The number and qualifications of members of the association 

 and the conditions precedent to membership and the method, 

 time, and manner of permitting members to withdraw, and pro- 

 viding for the assignment and transfer of the interest of mem- 

 bers, and the manner of determining the value of such interest 

 and providing for the purchase of such interest by the associa- 

 tion upon the death, withdrawal, or expulsion of a member or upon 

 the forfeiture of his membership, at the option of the association. 



" Permitting members to vote by their proxies, and determin- 

 ing the conditions, manner, form, and effect thereof.'' 



Each association shall also have the power 



" To appoint such agents and officers as its business may re- 

 quire, and such appointed agents may be either persons or cor- 

 porations ; or admit persons to membership in the association, 

 and to expel any member pursuant to the provisions of its by- 

 laws ; to forfeit the membership of any member for violation of 

 any agreement between him and the association, or for his viola- 

 tion of its by-laws. 



