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Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
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 or¬ 
der 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 have power to make suitable by-laws to govern the ao- 
tion of the several members thereof. They shall have general charge of all the 
property and interests of the society, and make such arrangements 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 sev¬ 
eral counties where they respectively reside, and constitute a medium of communi¬ 
cation 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, at three o’clock 
P. M. in each year, and ten days’ notice thereof shall be given by the secretary, in 
one or more papers printed in the city of Madison. 
The election of officers of the society shall be held each year during and at the 
general exhibition, and the exact time and jilace of the election shall be notified by 
the secretary in the official list of premiums and in all the general programmes of 
the exhibition. 
Special meetings of the society will be called by order of the executive board, on 
giving twenty days’ notice in at least three newspapers of general circulation in the 
state, of the time, place, and object of such meeting. 
At any and all meetings of the society, ten members shall constitute a quorum for 
the transaction cf business, though a less number may adjourn from time to time. 
ARTICLE VI. 
OF AMENDMENTS. 
This constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members attend¬ 
ing any annual meeting; all amendments having been first submitted in writing at 
the previous annual meeting, recorded in the minutes of the proceedings, and read 
by the secretary in the next succeeding meeting for the election of officers. 
