CONSTITUTION. 
ARTICLE I. 
OF THE NAME AND OBJECT OP THE SOCIETY. 
This society shall be known as the “Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.’^ 
Its object shall be to promote the advancement of agriculture, horticulture, 
and tlie mechanical and household arts. 
ARTICLE II. 
OF THE MEMBEBS. 
The society shall consist of life members, who shall pay, on subscribing, 
twenty dollars, and of honorary and corresponding members, who shall be 
elected by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the executive board, at any 
regular meeting. The presidents of county agricultural societies shall be 
members ex-offlcio, entitled to the same privileges as life-members, and, to¬ 
gether, shall be known as the general committee of the society. 
ARTICLE III. 
OP THE OFFICERS. 
The officers of the society shall consist of a president, one vice-president 
for each congressional district of the state, a secretary, a treasurer, and seven 
additional members, who shall hold their respective offices for the term of 
one year from the first day of January next succeeding the date of their elec¬ 
tion, and until their successors shall have been elected; and all of whom, to¬ 
gether with the ex-president latest in office, and the president and general 
secretar}’- of the Wisconsin x\.cademy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, shall con¬ 
stitute the executive board. 
ARTICLE IV. 
OP THE POWERS AND DUTIES OP OFFICERS. 
The presidents and vice-presidents shall perform such duties as are com¬ 
mon to such officers in like associations, as may be required by the executive 
board. 
The secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings, and have immediate 
charge of the books, papers, library, and collections, and other property of 
the society. He shall also attend to its correspondence, and prepare and 
superintend the publication of the annual report of the society, required by 
law. 
The treasurer shall keep the funds of the society and disburse the same on 
the order of the president, or a vice-president, countersigned by the secretary, 
and shall make report of all receipts and expenditures at the regular meeting 
of the society in December. 
The executive board shall nave power to make suitable by-laws to govern 
the action of the several members thereof. They shall have general charge 
of all the property and interests of the society, and make such arraugements 
for the holding and management of general and special exhibitions as the 
welfare of the society and the interests of industry shall seem to require. 
The general committee shall be charged with the interests of the society in 
the several counties where they respectively reside, and constitute a medium 
of communication between the executive board and the public at large. 
‘ ARTICLE V. 
OF MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS. 
The annual meeting of the society for the transaction of general business 
shall be held in its rooms in Madison, on the first Wednesday in December, 
