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when not otherwise provided for; examine the accounts of the 

 Treasurer, and make an annual report to the Society, of their 

 doings and of the financial affairs of the Society. 



Sec. 7. The Trustees shall represent the Society and act as 

 its agents in their respective counties. They may receive appli- 

 cations for membership, and forward the same, with the fees 

 therefor, to the Treasurer, and shall promote the interest of the 

 Society in their respective counties. 



Sec. 8. Whenever the office of President shall become vacant, 

 the Vice Presidents shall succeed to his office, in the order of 

 seniority, for the remainder of the year ; and any vacancy occur- 

 ring in any other office may be filled by appointment by the 

 Executive Committee ; the person so appointed holding the office 

 for the remainder of the year. 



Articee III. — Meetings. 



Section i. The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held 

 at the place and during the time- of the Annual Autumn State 

 Exhibition, and such notice thereof shall be given as the Execu- 

 tive Committee shall direct. If, from any cause, the regular 

 Annual Meeting shall not be held as above provided, a special 

 meeting shall be held at Augusta in the month of January next 

 following. 



Sec. 2. Special meetings may be called at any time by the 

 Executive Committee ; of which meetings each member shall be 

 notified, by a notice properly directed and deposited in some post 

 office at least ten days prior to the time of such meeting. 



Article IV. — Funds. 

 The fees for life membership shall constitute a permanent 

 fund, to be safely invested by the Treasurer under the direction 

 of the Executive Committee, and of which only the interest shall 

 be used for the disbursements of the Society, 



Article V. — Amendments. 

 These By-Laws, except Sec. 2 of Article i, may be altered or 

 amended at any annual meeting of the Society, by the concur- 

 rence of two-thirds of the members present, provided, however, 

 that Article 4 shall not be so amended without notice given and 

 entered on record at the preceding Annual Meeting. 



