DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Section 4. — The Execvitive Committee shall appropriate the funds of the Society, 

 determine on all premiums to be awarded, admit Honorary Members, regulate the 

 Annual Cattle Show and Fair, and adopt any and all such measures as they shall deem 



■ expedient for the well-being of the Society, not inconsistent with the act of incorpora- 

 tion and the laws of the Society. They shall meet statedU- at Great Barrington on the 

 first Wednesday- of November, March, June and September, at such place and hour of 

 the day as the Secretar3' shall appoint, and all their transactions shall be recorded, at 

 the time, in a book of records belonging especially to this committee, by the Secretary, 

 who shall keep on regular files all plans and proposals adopted at these meeting's. 



.At each successive meeting the business of the preceding one shall be read by the 

 ■Secretary before proceeding to anj^ ucav business. A quorum shall consist of not less 

 than four members, and in the absence of the Presidenta chairman shall be appointed 

 Xiro tempore. They shall meet at Great Barrington, on the Monday- next succeeding the 

 Fair for the purpose of examining the list of awards, and if it shall appear that any 

 premium has been improperly withheld, they shall authorize the Treasurer to deliver 

 the same to the claimant, or if they shall find that any premium has been awarded by' 

 mistake, or in violation of the By-I^aws and Regulations of the Society, the Committee 

 shall require the person so receiving the premium to retvirn the same, and may 

 recommend such proceeding in the case as they may deem proper. 



DUTIES OF standing COMMITTEE. 



Section 5. — The special duties of the Standing Committee shall be to take into con- 

 sideration the wants of the community and the interests of the Society, as connected 

 with their respective departments, and through their chairman to communicate to the 

 ;Kxecutive Committee, at their stated meeting on the first Wednesday of November, an- 

 nually, such suggestions as they may deem proper in relation to the making out of 

 the annual premium list. 



duties of COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS. 



Section 6. — The Committee on Accounts shall receive, examine and admit all 

 claims on the Society, and if just, certify them, or so much as is allowed upon them, 

 which certified accounts shall be vouchers for payments by the Treasurer. They 

 shall also settle with the Treasurer annually, on or before the first day of December. 



ARTICLE XII. 



The annual Cattle Show and Fair of the vSociety shall be held at Great Barrington, 

 commencing on the last Wednesday in September, and continuing three days, unless 

 • otherwise ordered bv the Societv at its annual meeting, when an address will be deliv- 

 ered before the Society, reports' heard from the different Boards of Examiners, and 

 the premiums awarded. 



ARTICLE XIII. 



The premiums of the Society shall be paid in plate, unless •otherwise ordered by 

 the Executive Committee, and shall be awarded by the respective Committees ap- 

 pointed annuallv bv the Society, and if any animal or any article be exhibited which 

 would receive a 'premium but for the rulcs'of the Society making such animal or article 

 ineligible, the exhibitor shall receive a diploma or certificate from the Committee cer- 

 tifying the facts. 



ARTICLE XIV. 



Anv member of any Committee of the Society, who wishes to be a competitor for a 

 premium on an article or crop in his department, shall notify the Secretary of his 

 wish, at least two weeks previous to the time appointed for the commencement of his 



■ duties, whereupon he shall be discharged from serving on said committee and the 

 Executive Committee or Committee on Vacancies may appoint another to serve in his 

 place. 



ARTICLE XV. 



If anv person shall attempt to obtain any premium by fraud or by offering any 

 article o'f household manufacture which was in whole of part manufactured in a 

 factory (the dyeing and finishing of cloths excepted, as also the weaving of blankets 

 and carpets, when so excepted "by the proposals of the Society), or shall offer any 

 article clandestinely, not belongin'g to him or her, or any article that may have re- 

 ceived the premium before (anituals excepted), such a person, if a membe'r, shall be 

 forever after expelled from the Society ; or if a female, or a person not a member, he 

 or she shall be forever thereafter precluded from receiving any premium from the 

 Society, and shall have his or her name entered on the records of the Society, and 

 of the "Executive Committee. 



ARTICLE XVI. 



All property, real and personal, which may belong to the Societj% shall be vested 

 in the ordinary members thereof. 



ARTICLE XVII. 



JNo person shall enter more than one team for premium on plowing. 



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