CONSTITUTION. 



Preamble. 



Impressed -with the importance of the advantages to be derived, 

 by associated effort, in carrying forward successfully every great 

 enterprise having for its object the improvement of the community, 

 the Farmers, Horticulturists, and Manufacturers, of the County of 

 Norfolk, have resolved to establish a Society, and to be governed by 

 the following 



Constitution, 



Article J. — The association shall be known by the name of 

 "The Norfolk Agricultural Society," 



Article IL — There shall be a President, six Vice Presidents, a 

 Corresponding and Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and Ex- 

 ecutive and Finance Committees, who shall be Trustees, ex officio. 

 Besides these, four additional Trustees shall be chosen from each 

 town in the County, excepting the city of Roxbury and the town of 

 Dorchester, which shall each be entitled to six. All officers enumer- 

 ated in this article shall continue in office until others are elected in 

 their stead. 



Article III. — All officers of the Society shall hereafter be chosen 

 by ballot. The election shall be determined by a majority of votes. 



Article IV. — The names of persons to be balloted for at the 

 annual election, shall be contained on one ballot ; and the offices for 

 •which they are respectively nominated shall be distinctly designated. 



Article V. — There shall be two stated meetings of the Society, 

 annually, viz. : On the last Wednesday in March and on the last 

 Wednesday in September ; the same to be held at ten o'clock in the 

 forenoon, at such place as the Trustees shall appoint ; of which they 

 shall give notice — in two of the Boston newspapers and in the 

 County papers — at least three weeks previous to the meeting. 



