lie spirit evinced by their thus afTording the means of accom- 

 plishing the objects of the institution. 



XIV.— ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 

 New members, whether resident or honorary, shall be 

 elected by ballot, and the Secretary sliall issue notices to 

 each person of his being elected to the following purport : 

 The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, have 

 elected a resident or honorary member, in tes- 



timony cf their confidence in his capacity and inclination to 

 promote the objects of their Institution. 



XV.— ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS AND OFFICERS. 

 All elections and appointments, except of the officers of 

 the Society, shall take place at one of the stated meetings of 

 the Society, and no person shall be elected a member, whe- 

 ther resident or honorary, unless at a preceding stated meet- 

 ing, he shall have been openly proposed, and such nomina- 

 tion duly entered on the minutes of the Society ; the nomina- 

 tion and election to be in the absence of the candidate. The 

 officers of the Society shall be elected at the annual meetings 

 of the Society, in each year, between the hours of twelve 

 o'clock at noon, and two o'clock P. M.; or in case no election 

 is then made, then at such time thereafter as they may ap- 

 point. No member shall be allowed to vote at the annual 

 meeting, unless his arrearages of subscription due the So^ 

 ciety be previously paid. 



XVI.— OF PREMIUMS. 

 The Society shall annually, or at any stated meeting, pro- 

 pose prizes upon interesting subjects relative to actual ex- 

 periments and improvements, and for the best pieces written 

 on proposed subjects ; and in order more effectually to dis- 

 seminate the knowledge of useful discoveries and improve- 

 ments in husbandry, the Society will from time to time, pub- 

 lish collections of memoirs and observations, selected from 

 such communications as shall be made to them. To pro- 

 mote these views, the friends of agriculture are invited to 

 assist the Society with information of experiments, and inci- 

 dents in husbandry. 



