BY-LAWS. 
SECTION I. 
OF OFFICERS. 
The officers of the society shall, ex-officio, fill the corresponding offices in 
the Executive Committee. 
SECTION II. 
OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF OFFICERS. 
The duties of the President, in addition to those defined by the Constitution, 
and the By-Laws regulating the duties of the permanent committees, shall be 
as follows, to wit: 
1. To inspect the fair grounds, after they shall have been prepared for the 
annual exhibition by the special committee of arrangements appointed for 
that purpose, and suggest such modifications or further preparations as he 
may deem necessary. 
2. To formally open the annual fair of the society, at such time as the 
executive committee may prescribe, with an appropriate address. 
3. As the executive head of the society, to have a general supervision and 
control of the entire exhibition, subject only to the authority of the executive 
committee. 
The duties of the Secretary, more specifically defined than in the Constitu¬ 
tion, shall be as follows: 
1. To make a faithful record of each meeting of the executive committee, 
and keep such record in a condition for the convenient reference of any' 
member thereof, at any time; also to make a record of every order drawn on 
the treasurer, and delivered to parties in whose favor they were so drawn— 
separately entering and numbering the orders drawn to pay premiums and 
those to pay general expenses, and so defining them—and of all moneys due 
the society; in all cases holding the parties so indebted responsible therefor 
until they shall have presented him a certificate from the treasurer, showing 
that the same has been paid. 
2. To open and carry on such correspondence as may be advantageous to 
the society or to the common cause of agricultural improvement, not only 
