56 Cooperation in Agriculture 



who thereunder shall have as many votes at all meetings as he 

 has bearing acres of citrus orchards from which the fruit is being 

 marketed through this Association. The number of such acres 

 shall be fixed by the Board of Directors from time to time as may 

 be necessary or proper and indorsed upon the margin of the mem- 

 bership certificate respectively and a record thereof kept in the 

 books of the corporation. Each member will pay an initial fee of 

 One Dollar for each of such bearing acres, and will further from 

 time to time contribute his pro rata share of all sums required for 

 packing operations, to be paid either in cash or by deductions 

 from fruit sales as the Directors may determine, but all voting 

 power of any member shall cease when he parts with the control 

 of the orchard for which such certificate was issued. 



2. Such certificates of membership shall not be assignable, 

 and the assignment thereof shall not transfer to the assignee 

 any voting power, property right, or interest in this corporation 

 except when transferred in connection with the bona fide sale 

 and to the purchaser of the orchard for which it was issued. 



3. Any member of this corporation may be expelled by mem- 

 bers representing two-thirds of all the votes of the corporation 

 for any reason which may to them seem sufficient at any general 

 or special meeting, providing the interest of such member in the 

 assets of the corporation be appraised by the Board of Directors 

 and tendered in gold coin to such member within sixty days, 

 conditioned only upon the return and cancellation of his certifi- 

 cate of membership and upon such expulsion all right of such 

 member in said corporation ceases. 



4. This corporation will be affiliated with the 



in the marketing of its fruit, and will avail itself of the 



marketing facilities of the and participate in its manage- 

 ment through such representatives as may from time to time 

 be authorized. 



5. All deductions which have heretofore been made or which 

 may be hereafter made from sales of fruit to meet subscriptions 

 to the stock of the or other corporation fur- 

 nishing packing-house or orchard supplies for the membership, 

 shall be treated as a packing charge ratably on all boxes of fruit 



