The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-04-21

Presidents are absent then tho Society shall appoint
any member as President pro tenn.
= 9th. The President, with Vice President, or,
without them, any FIVE members shall have power to
call special meetings, notices of which shall be pub.
lished ten days before the time at which such meet
ings are to be held
9TH. The Committees shall be appointed by the
President.
9Th. There shall be Committee on Cotton whose
duty it will be to collect all facts relative to the
growing crop, the amount likely to be produced in
the neighborhood the kind most pro6tuble, the va.
rious modes of culture, and to award such premiums
Us the Society may provide.
9Th. There shall be similar Committees on Corn,
small grain, root crops and the grasses, with similar
powers and duties.
10Th. There shall be Committee on Stock, whose
duty 1T shall be to report the best mode Of roaring
the best variety, and TO examine and award at the
exhibitions the premiums for the same.
llth. The Society shall determine at its meeting
in May, the kind and age of the Stock to be shown
also, of the products to be exhbitcd and specify at
said meeting the respective premiums.
10Th. The President shall sign such orders on the
Treasury as are drawn by the Committees in the per-
formance of their duties.
18th. The Treasurer shall collect all monies due
the Society, pay all orders drawn and signed in due
form, and keep the accounts regularly stated in the
books of the Society.
18th. 1t shall be the duty of the Corresponding
Secretary to communicate, at the pleasure of this
Society, with other Societies, and to revise all
nunications before they shall be published by order
G the Society.
18th. 1t shall be the duty Of the Recording Secrc-
tary to keep and preserve all the books and papers
of the Society, and to prepare its proceedings for
publication.
18th. Candidates for admission to this Society
must be proposed by ono who is already member;
and any one who has been proposed, and shall
have received majority of the votes of the men,
bcrs present, shall be duly elected.
17th Each member, at his admission 10 this So
ccty, shall pay to the Treasurer FIVE dollurs as an
initiation fec and every year afterwards five dollars
as an annual tribute at the meeting in May.
18th. A majority of quorum shall have power
to make SUCH bylaws and regulations as are not re-
pugnant to the provisions of this Constitution.
10Th. No alteration amendment shall be made
TO this Constitution without the of two
thirds of the members present at egular meeting.
The foregoing Constitution was adopted by the
meeting, and ratified by the signatures of the gen.
tlcmen present The Society then went into an
election Of officers for the ensuing year, and the fol-
lowing gentlemen were declared duly and unani-
mously elected:
Pfcsidrnt-Col. James Chestnut.
Vice residents Lang and William San.
ders.
corresponding Secretary-J. NJ. Dcsaussure.
Recording Sccretary-Jno Boykin. .a
Anniversary Orator--Wm. J. Taylor
On motion of William Ancrum, it wus Resolved,
That the proceedings of this meeting, and the Con-
sti,ution of the Wateree Agricultural Society bel
published in tho Camden Journal and that notice he
given that another meeting of the Society will be
held on the first Thursday in May next, at 10
o'clock, A. NJ, in the Meeting House at Swift Creek
The Society then adjourned.
JAMES CHESNUT, Jr., Sec'ry.