BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Sec. 2. The Treasurer shall collect and have charge of all funds belonging to the Society 

 and shall take such measures for the collection thereof as may be directed by the Executive 

 Committee, at the expense of the Society. He shall give bonds, with sureties satisfactory to 

 the President of the Society, in the sum of $3,000, for the faithful performance of the duties 

 of his office, which bond shall be kept by the Secretary of the Society. He shall exhibit his 

 accounts when called upon to do so by the President or Executive Committee of the Society, 

 and make a full report of the receipts and expenditures of the Society at its annual meeting. 



Sec. 3. The Secretary shall perforin the duties of that office, and shall keep a true record 

 of alljthe doings of the Society and of the Executive Committee, and of such other proceed- 

 ings as he may be directed to record by the Society or the Executive Cinmittee. 



Sec. 4. The Executive Committee shall appropriate tha funds of the Society, determine 

 and publish all premium? to be awarded, establish the rules and regulations which shall 

 govern such award, regulate the Annual Cattle Show and Fair, and adopt any and all siich 

 measures as they shall deem expedient for the well being of the Society, and for the pro- 

 tection,- preservation and good management of the Fair Grounds and other property of the 

 Society, not inconsistent with the Act incorporating this Society, with the laws of th<? Com- 

 monwealth, or with the By-Laws of the Society. They shall meet on the third Wednesday in 

 the mouths of December and October, and such other times as they may be called together 

 by the President or Secretary of the Society. A quorum shall consist of seven members. 



Sec. 5. The Auditors shall receive, examine and audit all claims on the Society, anil if 

 deemed by them just, certify them, which certificate shall be a voucher for the payment by 

 the Treasurer. 



ART. 11— ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR. 



The Annual Cattle Show and Fair of the Society shall be held for three consecutive days, at 

 the time prescribed by the laws of the Commonwealth, when an address shall be delivered 

 before the Society, reports be heard by the different Committees of examination and the pre- 

 miums of the Society be presented to the successful competitors. 



ART. 12— AWARDING OF PREMIUMS. 



The Premiums of the Society shall be awarded in the following manner : Those on Agricul- 

 tural Crops by a Standing Committee to be called the Committee on Agriculture, who, under 

 the instructions of the Executive Committee, shall visit and carefully examine and compare 

 the different crops offered for premium. All the other premiums of the Society shall be 

 awarded by the Standing Committee of the Society, in strict accordance with the rules and 

 regulations adopted by the Executive Committee. 



ART. 13— ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN PREMIUMS BY FRAUD. 



If any person shall attempt to obtain any premium by fraud, or by offering an article as of 

 Household Manufactures, which was in whole or in part manufactured in a factory, (the dye- 

 ing and finishing of cloths excepted, as also the weaving of blankets and carpets when so ex- 

 cepted by the proposals of the Society,) or shall offer any articles clandestinely, not belonging 

 to him or her, or any article that may before have received a premium, (animals not having 

 attained their growth excepted,) such person, if a member, shall pay for the profit and to the 

 use of the poor of the County, the sum of $5, to be paid into the hands of the County Treasu- 

 rer, with cost of suit, to be recovered by an action of trespass before a Justice of the Peace, 

 be forever thereafter precluded from receiving any premium from the Society, and have his or 

 her name entered on the records of the Society and of the Executive Committee. This article 

 shall not be considered as debarring breeding stock from taking more than one premium, or 

 fat cattle from taking premiums, though they may have taken premiums as working oxen, or 

 milch or breeding cows. 



ART. 14— ADMISSION OF MEMBERS TO THE GROUNDS. 



Members of the Society and their wives shall be admitted to the Fair Grounds on the days 

 of the Annual Cattle Show and Fair without charge. 



ART. 15— ALTERATION OF BY-LAWS. 



These By-Laws may be altered by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any spe- 

 cial meeting of the Society, convened for that purpose. 



ART. 16— ADOPTION OF BY-LAWS. 



All By-Laws of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, heretofore made, are repealed, and in 

 place thereof the foregoing By-Laws are adopted. 



THOMAS COLT, "| 



E. H. KELLOGG, 



B. F. MILLS, -Committee. 



JOHN B. WELLS, | 



STODDARD HUBBELLJ 



Pittsfield, January, 1860. 



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