CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



Hampshire Agricultural Society. 



ARTICLE I. 



Object. — The object of the Society shall be the attainment and diffu- 

 sion of scientific and practical knowledge in the cultivation of the soil 

 and the raising of its various useful productions, as comprehended in the 

 several departments of Agriculture, Horticulture and Pomology. 



2d. Encouragement to the introduction and raising of Improved 

 Breeds of Stock. 



3d. Encouragement to Domestic Manufactures. 

 ARTICLE II. 



Annual Meeting. — On the last Wednesday of December of each year, 

 the Society shall hold its Annual Meeting at Amherst, for the choice of 

 Officers, as follows, to wit : — a President, one Vice-President, six Trustees, 

 a Secretary, a Treasurer and an Auditor : — all of whom shall be elected 

 by ballot, and shall hold their office for one year, and until others are 

 chosen in their stead : at which time and meeting also, the Society may 

 transact any other business which the interests of the Society may 

 require. 



ARTICLE III. 



Quorum. — Ten members shall constitute a quorum for doing business 

 at any meeting of the Society. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Executive Committee. — The President, Vice-President and Trustees, 

 the Secretary and Treasurer, shall constitute the Executive Conimittee, 

 to whom shall be entrusted the general administration of the affairs of 

 the Society; who shall determine the scheme of premiums to be 

 offered, establish the rules regulating the Exhibitions and Fairs held by 

 the Society ; call special meetings of the Society when they shall deem 

 it desirable ; and generally shall concert and put in execution such 

 measures as in their opinion shall best secure the objects contemplated 

 in the first article of the Constitution ; and at all meetings of the Exec- 

 utive Committee, four members thereof shall make a quorum for the 

 transaction of business. 



