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Art. 9. A committee shall be appointed aiumally by 

 the Trustees to audit the Treasurer's accounts, who shall 

 report to the Society ; and the same being accepted, shall 

 be entered by the Secretary in his books. 



Art. 10. In case of death, resignation, incapacity, or 

 removal out of the county, of the Secretary or of the Treas- 

 urer, the Trustees shall take charge of the official books, 

 papers, and other effects belonging to the office that may 

 be vacated, and give receipts for the same ; which books, 

 papers, etc., they may deliver to some person whom they 

 may appoint to fill the office until the next meeting of the 

 Society, at which time there shall be a new choice. 



Art. 11. *Any citizen of the county may become a 

 member of the Society by paying the sum of three dol 

 LARS to increase the permanent fund of the institution. 



Aht. 12. A committee shall be raised from time to 

 time to solicit and receive subscriptions for raising a fund 

 for encouraging the noblest of pursuits, the Agriculture of 

 our county ; the same to be sacredly appropriated to tha 

 purpose. 



Art. 13. All ordained ministers of the Gospel who re- 

 side within the county shall be admitted honorary mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



Art. 14. In addition to the usual number of Trustees 

 annually elected, the past Presidents of the Society shall 

 be honorary members of the Board of Trustees. 



Art. 15. The foregoing constitution may be amended 

 by a proposition of the amendment in writing by a member 

 at a regular meeting ; the same to lie over for the action at 

 the next annual meeting of the Society. 



♦Members will receive from the Secretary a " certificate of membership." No 

 fines or assessments are ever imposed. Members are entitled to vote in all its 

 transactions, with free use of the Library and a copy of the printed " Transac- 

 tions" each year. 



A jiremium of six dollars is now offered to the resident of the county obtain- 

 intr tlie largest number of new members during the year ending Nov. 1. 



