71 



he shall give duplicate receipts — one of which shall be lodged with 

 the Recording Secretary — and make a fair record .thereof; and 

 from time to time pay out such moneys as he shall have orders to 

 from the Trustees ; and shall, annually, and whenever thereto re- 

 quired, render a fair account of all his receipts and payments to the 

 Society, or a Committee thereof. 



Art. XVI. — A Committee shall be chosen annually to audit the 

 Treasurer's accounts, — viz., at the September meeting, — and to re- 

 port thereon at the next March meeting ; and the same being 

 accepted, shall be entered by the Recording Secretary on his books. 



Art. XVII. — In case of the death, resignation, incapacity or 

 removal out of the county of either of the Secretaries or the Treas- 

 urer, the Trustees shall take charge of the official books, paj^ers and 

 effects belonging to the office that may be vacated, and give re- 

 ceipts for the same ; which books, papers, &c., they may deliver to 

 some person whom they may ap2:)oint to fill the office until the next 

 meeting of the Society, at which time there shall be a choice. 



Art. XVIII. — A Committee shall be appointed, from time to 

 time, severally to solicit and receive subscriptions for raising a fund 

 to encourage the objects for which the Society has been founded, — 

 the improvement of the Agriculture, the Horticulture and the Man- 

 ufactures of the county, — the same to be sacredly appropriated to 

 these objects only. 



Art. XIX. — All donations made to the Society shall be perma- 

 nently invested, the income only to be aj^plied to premiums and 

 gratuities, unless specially directed otherwise by the donor. 



ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS. 



At the annual meeting held March 31, 1852, the town of West 

 Roxbury having been set off from the city of Roxbury, it was — 



Voted, That hereafter Roxbury shall have six Trustees and 

 West Roxbury four Trustees. 



At the annual meeting held March 30, 1853, it was — 

 Voted, That the Constitution be so amended that the Auditors 



now reqiiired to be chosen in September, be chosen at the annual 



meetino- in March. 



o 



At the annual meeting held March 28, 1866, the following amend- 

 ment to the Constitution was unanimously adopted : — 



No amendment of this Constitution shall be made except by a 

 two-thirds vote of the members present at any annual meeting, of 

 the Society, nor except it has been proposed at the preceding 

 annual meeting. 



