to be called Clarion, passed the Uth day of March, 1839," and 

 for other purposes. 



Section 9. That the act entitled an act supplementary to an 

 act entitled an act for the Promotion of Agriculture and Do- 

 mestic Manufactures, passed on the thirtieth day of March, 

 eighteen hundred and twenty-one, be and the same is hereby 

 revived for the term of five years from and after the passage 

 of this act so far as respects the city and county of Philadelphia. 



Approved — The \6th day of April, 1840. 



BY-L.AWSa 



I.— NAME OF THE SOCIETY. 

 The Society shall be styled, THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIE- 

 TY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. 



II.— OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Society's attention shall be confined to agriculture and 

 rural affairs. 



HI— OFFICERS AND MODES OF ELECTION. 



The Society shall have a President, and two Vice-Presidents, 

 a Treasurer, two Curators, a Secretary and Assistant Secre- 

 tary and Librarian, 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 ; the officers not then elect- 

 ed may be chosen at any stated meeting thereafter on being 

 nominated at a preceding meeting, and such intention shall be 

 duly notified in a public newspaper and in a reasonable time 

 before the meeting, at which a choice is to be made. The per- 

 sons, so elected, to continue in office one year, and until others 

 are chosen in their stead. In case of any vacancy, by death, 

 resignation, or otherwise, the same may be supplied by a new 

 election, to be made at any stated meeting of the Society, the 

 I^erson thus newly elected to serve the remainder of ihe year. 

 IV.— OF A QUORUM. 



A quorum for business shall consist of at least five members, 

 including the President or Vice-President. 



