By-Laws. 91 



DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Sec. 4.— The Executive 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 

 idopt any and all such measures as they shall deem expedient for the well-being of the 8ociety, 

 not inconsistent with the act of incorporation and the laws of the Society. They shall meet statedly 

 it Great Barrington, on the first Wednesday of December, March, June and September, at such place 

 vnd hour of the day as the Secretary shall appoint, and all their transactions shall be recorded at 

 he time in a book of record belonging specially to this Committee, by the Secretary, who shall keep 

 on regular files, all plans and proposals adopted at these meetings. At each successive meeting, 

 the minutes of the preceding one shall be read by the Secretary before proceeding to any new busi. 

 ness. A quorum shall consist of not less than four members, and in the absence of the President, 

 a chairman shall be appointed protempore. 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-Laws and Regulations of the Society, the Committee shall require that person 

 so receiving the premium to return the same, and may recommend Buch proceedings in the case as 

 they may deem proper. 



DUTIES OF STANDING COMMITTEES. 



Sec 5. The special duties of the Standing Committees, shall be to take into consideration the 

 wants of the community and the interests of the Society as connected with their respective depart- 

 ments, and through their Chairman to communicate to the Executive Committee at their stated 

 meeting, on the first Wednesday of March, annually, such suggestions as they may deem proper in 

 relation to the making out of the annual premium list. 



DUTIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS. 



Sec 6. The Committee on Accounts shall receive, examine and audit 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 January. 



ARTICLE XII.* 



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

 on the last Wednesday of September, and'eontinuing three days, unless otherwise ordered by the 

 Society at its annual meeting, when an address shall be delivered before the Society, reports heard 

 from the different Boards of Examiners, and the premiums awarded. 



[*Note. — Since the adoption of these By-Laws, the Legislature have paesed an act regulating 

 times of holding Fairs throughout the Commonwealth. Sec. H. A. S.] 



ARTICLE XIII. 



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

 its annual meeting, and shall be awarded by the respective Committees appointed annually by the 

 Society, and if any animal, or any article be exhibited which would receive a premium but for the 

 rules of the Society making such animal or article ineligible, the exhibitor shall receive a diploma 

 or certificate from the Committee certifying the facts. 



ARTICLE XIV. 



Any member of any Committee of the Society, who wishes to be a competitor for a premium on 

 any article in his department, shall notify the Secretary of his wish, at least two weeks previous to 

 the annual Cattle Show and Fair, whereupon he shall be discharged from serving on said Com- 

 mittee, and the Society at any subsequent meeting, or its Executive Committee may appoint an- 

 other to serve in his place — provided, however, that any member of the Agricultural Committee, 

 giving notice as aforesaid, be required to give the same two weeks before the tenth day of July 

 next before said Cattle Show and Fair. 



ARTICLE XV. 



If any person shall attempt to obtain any premium by fraud, or by offering any article of hous- 

 hold manufacture, which was in whole, or in part manufactured in a factory, (the dyeing and finish- 

 ing of cloths excepted, as also the weaving of blankets and carpets, when so excepted by the pro- 

 posals of the Society,) or shall offer any article clandestinely, not belonging to him or her, or any ar- 

 ticle that may have received a premium before (animals not having attained their growth excepted.) 

 such persons if a member, shall pay for the profit and to the use of the poor of the County, the sum 

 of five dollars, to be paid into the hands of the County Treasurer, with cost of suit, to be recovered 

 by an action of tort, before a justice of the peace, and 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 re- 

 ceiving 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 Society, shall be vested in the ordinary 

 members thereof. 



