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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Two o'clock, P. M. 
Committee met pursuant to adjournment. Present same 
members as before. 
Mr. Hoyt, on behalf of committee appointed to draft a 
new set of By-Laws, presented a full report, which, with some 
few amendments, was adopted, as follows: 
SECTION I.— Of the Officers. 
The Officers of the Society shall, ex-officio, fill the corresponding offices ,in 
the Executive Committee. 
SECTION II.— Of the Duties of tiik 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. 
o. 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 Constitution, 
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 to him a certificate from the Treasurer, show¬ 
ing 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 
with individual agriculturists and eminent practical and scientific men of 
other industrial pursuits, but also with other societies or associations whose 
objects are kindred to ours, whether in this country or foreign lands, and to 
preserve a journal of such correspondence in the archives of the Society. 
o. To collect and arrange for convenient examination, standard agricul- 
