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Article 6. The Trustees shall regulate all the concerns 

 of the Society during the intervals of the meetings; propose 

 such objects of improvement to the attention of the public, 

 publish such communications, and offer such premiums in 

 such form and value as they think proper (provided the 

 premiums offered do not exceed the funds of the Society) ; 

 and shall lay before the Society at each of its meetings a 

 statement of their proceedings and of the communications 

 made to them. 



Article 7. The Secretary shall take minutes of all the 

 votes and proceedings of the Society and of the Trustees, 

 and enter them in separate books, and shall record all such 

 communications as the Trustees shall direct. He shall write 

 and answer all letters relating to the business of the Society. 



Article 8. The Treasurer shall receive all monies due 

 or payable to the Society, and all donations that may be made 

 to it, for which he shall give duplicate receipts, one of which 

 shall be lodged with the Secretary, who shall make a fair 

 record thereof. . The Treasurer shall from time to time, pay 

 out such monies as he shall have orders for from the Trustees ; 

 and shall annually, and whenever thereto required, render a 

 fair account of all his receipts and payments to the Society 

 or a committee thereof. He shall give bonds for the faith- 

 ful discharge of duty in such sum as the Trustees shall di- 

 rect, and with such sureties. 



Article 9. A committee shall be appointed annually by 

 the Trustees to audit the Treasurer's accounts, who shall re- 

 port to the Society; and the same being accepted, shall be 

 entered by the Secretary in his books. 



Article 10. In case of death, resignation, incapacity, or 

 removal out of the county, of the Secretary, or of the Treas- 

 urer, 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 Socieiy, at 

 which time there shall be a new choice. 



Article 11. *Any citizen of the county may become a 

 member of the Society by paying the sum of three dollars 

 to increase the permanent fund of the institution. 



