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Art. 9. A committee shall be appointed annuall}- 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 

 Treasurer, 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. 



Art. 12. A committee shall be raised from time to- 

 time to solicit and receive subscriptions for raising a fund, 

 for encouraging the noblest of jmrsuits, the Agriculture- 

 of our County, the same to be sacredly appropriated to that, 

 purpose. 



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

 side within the county shall be admitted honorary menir 

 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 mem- 

 ber at a regular meeting; the same to lie over for the ac- 

 tion at the next annual meeting of the Society. 



♦Members will receive from the Secretary a certificate of member- 

 ship. No fines or assessments are ever imposed. Members are en- 

 titled to vote in all its transaction, with free use of the Library and. 

 a copy of the printed Transactions each year. 



