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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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 sec¬ 
retary, and shall make a report of all receipts and expenditures at the regu¬ 
lar meeting of the society in November. 
The executive board shall have 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 arrange¬ 
ments for the holding and management of general and special exhibitions 
as the welfare of the society and the intrests of industry shall seem to 
require. 
The general committee shall be charged with the interest 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 busi¬ 
ness, shall be held in its rooms in Madison, on the first Wednesday of 
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 tbe exact time and place 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 wid 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 meetings. 
At any and all meetings of the society, ten members shall constitute a quo¬ 
rum for the transactian of business, though a less number may adjourn from 
time to time. 
ARTICLE VI. 
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or AMENDMENTS. 
This constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members 
attending any annual meeting; all amendments having been first submitted 
in writing at the previous annual meeting, recorded in the m’nutesof the pro¬ 
ceedings, and read by the secretary in the next succeeding meeting for the 
election of officers. 
