CONSTITUTION OF THE NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The style of this Society shall be "the New-York State Agricultural Society." Its objects shall be to improve the condition of Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household arts. SEC. 1. The Society shall consist of such citizens of the State as shall signify in writing their wish to become members, and shall pay on subscribing not less than one dollar, and annually thereafter one dollar, and also of Honorary and Corresponding members. The Presidents of County Agricultural Societies, or a delegate from each, shall ex-officio be members of this Society. The payment of ten dollars or more shall constitute a member for life, and shall exempt the donor from annual contributions. SEC. 2. The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, eight Vice-Presidents, one to be located in each Judicial District; a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, an Executive Committee, to consist of the officers above named, and five additional members, and five of the Ex-Presidents shall be ex-officio members of the Executive Committee, and these five shall consist of the five Ex-Presidents whose term of office has last expired, of whom three shall constitute a quorum; and that the Ex-Presidents of the Society, not members of the Executive Committee, shall constitute a Board of Counsellors, to which may be referred, for consultation and advice, all questions that may from time to time arise, and in the decision of which the Society may in any manner be interested; and a General Committee, the members of which shall be located in the several counties, and be equal to the representations in the House of Assembly. SEC. 3. The Recording Secretary shall keep the minutes of the Society. The Corresponding Secretary shall carry on the correspondence with other societies, with individuals, and with the General Committee, in the furtherance of the objects of the Society. The Treasurer shall keep the funds of the Society, and disburse them on the order of the President or a Vice-President, countersigned by the Recording Secretary, and shall make a report of the receipts and expenditures at the annual meeting in February. The Executive Committee shall take charge of and distribute and preserve all seeds, plants, books, models, &c., which may be transmitted to the Society; and shall have also the charge of all communications designed or calculated for publication, and so far as they may deem expedient, shall collect, arrange, and publish the same, in such manner and form as they shall deem best calculated to promote the objects of the Society. The General Committee are charged with the interests of the Society in the counties in which they shall respectively reside, and will constitute a medium of communication between the Executive Committee and the remote members of the Society. SEC. 4. There shall be an annual meeting of the Society on the second Wednesday of February, in the city of Albany, at which time all the officers shall be elected by a plurality of votes and by ballot, with the exception of the General Committee for the counties, which may be appointed by the Executive Committee, who shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in the officers of the Society during the year. Extra meetings may be convoked by the Executive Committee. Fifteen members shall be a quorum for the transaction of busi ness. SEC. 5. The Society shall hold an annual Cattle Show and Fair at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee. SEC. 6. This Constitution may be amended by a vote of twothirds of the members attending any annual meeting, upon one year's previous notice in writing. I certify the above to be a true copy of the Constitution of the New-York State Agricultural Society. B. P. JOHNSON, Cor. Secretary. FELLOWS, JOSEPH, Bath. F. FAIRBANKS, T., St. Johnsbury, Vt. |