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CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



NORFOLK AGRICULTUHAL SOCIETY. 



Adopted February 7, 1849. 



PREAMBLE, 



Impressed with the importance of the advantages to be derived 

 by associated effort in carrying forward successfully every great en- 

 terprise having for its object the improvement of the community, 

 the Farmers, Horticulturists and Manufacturers of the County of 

 Norfolk have resolved to establish a society, and to be governed by 

 the following 



CONSTITUTION: 



Article I. — The association shall be known by the name of 

 " The Norfolk Agricultural Society." 



Art. 2. — There shall be a President, six Vice-Presidents, a Re- 

 cording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and Execu- 

 tive and Finance Committees, who shall be Trustees ex officio. 

 Besides these, four additional Trustees shall be chosen from each 

 town in the county, excepting the city of Roxbury, which shall be 

 entitled to eight, and the town of Dorchester, which shall be en- 

 titled to six. All officers enumei-ated in this article shall continue 

 in office until others are elected in their stead. 



Art. III. — All officers of the Society shall hereafter be chosen by 

 ballot. The election shall be determined by a majority of votes. 



Art. IV. — The names of persons to be balloted for at the an- 

 nual election shall be contained on one ballot ; and the offices for 

 which they are respectively nominated shall be distinctly designated. 



Art. V. — There shall be two stated meetings of the Society 

 annually, viz., on the last Wednesday in March and on the last 

 Wednesday in September ; the same to be held at ten o'clock in 

 the forenoon, at such place as the Trustees shall appoint, of which 

 they shall give notice, in two of the Boston newspapers and in the 

 county papers, at least three weeks previous to the meeting. 



