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Directors from time to time as may be necessary or proper 

 and endorsed upon the margin of the membership certificate 

 respectively and a record thereof kept in the books of the 

 corporation. Each member will pay an initial fee of One 

 Dollar for each of such bearing acres, and will further from 

 time to time contribute his pro rata share of all sums re- 

 quired for packing operations to be paid either in cash or 

 by deductions from fruit sales as the Directors may deter- 

 mine, but all voting power of any member shall cease when 

 he parts with the control of the orchard for which such 

 certificate was issued. 



2. Such certificates of membership shall not be assign- 

 able, and the assignment thereof shall not confer to the 

 assignee any voting power, property right or interest in 

 this corporation except when transferred in connection with 

 the bona fide sale and to the purchaser of the orchard for 

 which it was issued. 



3. Any member of this corporation may be expelled by 

 members representing two-thirds of all the votes of the 

 corporation for any reason which may to them seem suffi- 

 cient at any general or special meeting, providing the in- 

 terest of such member in the assets of the corporation be 

 appraised by the Board of Directors and tendered in gold 

 coin to such member within sixty days, conditioned only 

 upon the return and cancellation of his certificate of mem- 

 bership — and upon such expulsion all right of such member 

 in said corporation ceases. 



4. This corporation will be affiliated with the [one of the 

 district exchanges] in the marketing of its fruit, and will 

 avail itself of the marketing facilities of the California 

 Fruit Growers Exchange and participate in its manage- 

 ment through such representatives as may from time to 

 time be authorized. 



5. All deductions which have heretofore been made or 

 which may be hereafter made from sales of fruit to meet 

 subscriptions to the stock of the [Fruit Growers Supply 

 Company] or other corporation furnishing packing house 

 or orchard supplies for the membership, shall be treated as 

 a packing charge ratably on all boxes of fruit packed during 



