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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
SECTION III.—Of the Meetings. 
The Executive Committee shall meet annually, on the day preceding the day 
on which the Annual Meeting of the Society is held, on the first Tuesday of 
February, and again on the first day of the Annual Fair. 
They shall also meet at the call of the Secretary—the President and a Vice 
President of the Society concurring—and may adjourn to any stated time. 
SECTION IV.— Of a Quorum. 
At any meeting of the Executive Committee, four members thereof shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
SECTION V. —Of Permanent Committees. 
There shall be two permanent committees of the Executive Committee’ 
which shall be respectively styled the Standing Committee , and the Finance 
Committee. 
The Standing Committee shall consist of the President, the Secretary, and 
the Treasurer, who shall have power, in the recess of the Executive Com¬ 
mittee, to draw orders on the Treasurer for all necessary current incidental 
expenses. But the Executive Committee shall have authority, and are hereby 
required to revise the proceedings or transactions of said Standing Committee, 
and endorse or disapprove of the same. 
The Finance Committee , shall consist of the President’and Treasurer, and it 
shall be their duty to suggest means for increasing the revenues of the 
Socictv. 
They shall also have authority to invest any portion of the funds of the 
Society, that may from time to time be set apart by the Executive Committee 
for investment, disposing of such funds upon such terms and conditions as 
may be prescribed by the Executive Committee. 
Each of the above named sub-committees shall be responsible for the faith¬ 
ful discharge of their duties to the Executive Committee, to whom an appeal 
may at any time be taken from their acts or decisions. 
The auditing, adjusting, allowing or rejecting of all bills, claims, or de¬ 
mands, of whatsoever nature, against the Society, and the issuing of orders 
upon the Treasurer for the payment of the same—except for the current inci¬ 
dental expenses of the Society, by this section already provided for—shall 
devolve upon the Executive Committee. And it shall be the duty of said 
Committee to annually examine the books, papers, and vouchers of the Treas¬ 
urer and Secretary, and compare the same, and adjust the accounts between 
those officers and the Society, and to report thereon at the Annual Meeting in 
in December. 
SECTION VI.—Of the Order of Business. 
The following order of business shall be observed at all the meetings of the 
Executive Committee: 
1. Reading the minutes of the preceding meeting. 
