LAWS 



OF THE 



PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY 



FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. 



AS REVISED AjXD PASSED AT THE AJ^TJSTUAL MEETIJVG, 

 JAJVUABY 11, 1814. 



I. 



THE society sliall be stiled, THE PHILADELPHIA 

 SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. 



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The society's attention sliall be confined to agriculture 

 and rural affairs. 



III. 



The society shall have a president, a first and second vice- 

 president, a treasurer, five curators, a secretary, and an as- 

 sistant secretary ; 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 ; but if any oflicer 

 be not elected at the annual meeting in January, the oflicer 

 not then elected may be chosen at any stated meeting there- 

 after, on being nominated at a precedent meeting, which 

 nomination shall be duly notified in a public newspaper, in a 

 reasonable time, before the meeting on which a choice is to 

 be made ; the persons, so elected, to continue in oflice one 

 year, and until others shall be chosen in their stead. And 

 in case of any vacancy, by death, resignation, or otherwise. 



