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CONSTITUTION

OF THE

Massachusetts Society

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promoting
Agriculture.

ESTABLISHED IN 1792.

CONSTITUTION

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY
EOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE.

ESTABLISHED IN 1792.

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BOSTON :

NATHAN SAWYER & SON, PRINTERS,

NO. 70 STATE STREET.

1894

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CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.

That there shall be a President, two Vice-
Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding
Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall be Trustees
ex-officio ; in addition to these, six other Trustees
shall be chosen from the State at large until
others are elected in their stead.

ARTICLE II.

All ollicers, as well as new members, shall be
elected by ballot. The election shall be deter-
mined by a majority of votes.

ARTICLE III.

The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be
held on the second Wednesday in June, at eleven

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o'clock A.M., at such place as the Trustees shall
appoint, of which they shall give notice in one
of the Hoston newspapers at least one week
previous to said meeting.

ARTICLE IV.

There shall be a choice of oflicers at the Annual
Meeting in June, and any number of members
present, or voting by proxy, shall be authorized
to transact business.

ARTICLE V.

If at any meeting of the Society, or of the
Trustees, the President and Vice-Presidents should
be absent, the members present may appoint one
from among them to preside at such meeting.

ARTICLE VI.

The President, or, in case of his absence,
either of the Vice-Presidents, with the advice of

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the Trustees, may call a special meeting of the
Society ; or whenever written application with
reasons assigned therefor shall be made by any
twelve members of the Society to the President
and Trustees, they shall call such meeting.

ARTICLE VII.

The meetings of the Trustees shall be held at
such time and place as they shall from time to
time agree upon, seven of whom, with the pre-
siding member, shall make a quorum for doing
of business, except in the case of election of
members.

ARTICLE VIII.

The Trustees shall regulate all the concerns of
the Society during the intervals of its meetings,
propose such objects of improvement to the atten-
tion of the public, publish such communications,
and offer premiums in such form and value as
they shall think proper, provided the premiums

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offered do not exceed the funds of the Society,
and shall lay before the Society at its Annual
Meeting a statement of their proceedings and of
the communications made to them.

The Trustees shall have power to fill vacancies
in their body.

ARTICLE IX.

The candidate for election shall be proposed by
a member of the Society, and, on being balloted
for, if the number of votes in favor of such
candidate shall amount to a majority of the
members present, such person shall be considered
as duly elected.

ARTICLE X.

The Recording Secretary shall take minutes of
all the votes and proceedings of the Society and
of the Trustees, and enter them in separate books,
and shall record all such communications as the
Trustees may direct.

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ARTICLE XI.

The Correspouding Secretary shall write all
letters relating to the business of the Society,
and answer all such letters to the Society as the
Trustees shall direct.

ARTICLE XII.

Tlie Treasurer shall receive all monies due or
payable to the Societ}', and all donations that
may be made to it, for which he shall give
duplicate receipts, one of which shall be lodged
with the Recording Secretary, and make a fair
record thereof, and from time to time pay out
such monies that may be in the treasury as he
shall have orders for from the Trustees, and shall
annually, and whenever thereto required, render
a fair account of all his receipts and payments
to the Society or a committee thereof. The
Treasurer's accounts shall be kept in dollars and
cents, and shall give bonds for the faithful dis-

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charge of his duty in such sums as the Trustees
shall direct and with such sureties, said bond not
to exceed $5,000.

ARTICLE XIII.

A committee shall be chosen at the Annual
Meeting to audit the Treasurer's accounts, who
shall report thereon at the next Annual Meeting,
and the same being accepted shall be entered by
the Recording Secretary in his books.

ARTICLE XIV.

In the case of death, resignation, incapacity,
or removal out of the State of either of the
Secretaries, or of the Treasurer, the Trustees
shall take charge of the official books, papers,
and effects belonging to the office that may be
vacated, and give receipts for the same, which
books, papers, etc., they may deliver to some
person whom they may appoint to till up the
office until the next meeting Of the Society, at
which time there shall be a new choice.

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ARTICLE XV.

The members of the Society shall pay auuually
into the hands of the Treasurer §1.00 for raising
of a fund for carrying into execution the designs
of the institution.

ARTICLE XVI.

A committee shall be appointed from time to
time severally to solicit and receive subscriptions
for raising of a fund for encouraging the noblest
of pursuits, the agriculture of our country, the
same to be sacredly appropriated to that purpose.

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