By-Laws. 
SECTION I. 
OF OFFICERS. 
The officers of the society shall, ex-officio , fill the corresponding offices in the ex¬ 
ecutive committee. 
SECTION II. 
OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF OFFICERS. 
The duties of the President , in addition to those defined by the Constilution, 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 arrangement 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 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 him a certificate from the treas¬ 
urer, 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 with indi¬ 
vidual agriculturists and eminent practical and scientific men of other industrial 
