The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-10-17
CONSTITUTION OF THE MECKLEN-
BURG AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

| BURG AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
! PRRAMBLE The undersigned citizens of Neck.
lenburg County, duly approaching the impor-
lance, both in national and individual point OF
view, of an improved system Of HusbandTy SEN
sble Of their OWL deficiency of knowledge in the
theory and practice Of Rural Economy persua.
dsd that Agricultural Associations have proved
eminently beneficial to other States and Coun-
ties and DESTROYS to procure for themselves and
their neighbors the advantages of such insitu-
TONS have determined TO associate together, and
TO constitute an Agricultural Society to be gov
ernnd by the following Rules and Regulations
RULE I. The style of the Society shall be
4" Tie MecElenburg Agricultural Society"
RUE III. The object Of the Society shall be,
TO discover new and hidden manufes, TO facilitate
the collection Of manures generally, and desg-
nate the best mode of their application TO the diff
ferent objects of cultivation to procure and i'm.
prove the implements of husbandry TO collect
all new and foreign seeds and grams, which may
be doomed necessary or useful for subsistence or
comfort; to improve the agricultural and rural
enconomy of the county.
Rule III. The Society shall consist Of such
citizens of the County will subscribe TO the
Constitution and pay two dollars at the time Of
subscription, and one dollar at the anniversary
meeting, which shall DO the last Thursday in
November in every year.
RUS ". The Officers shall be President,
two Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, Recording
Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, o Librarian,
and Six Directors, to DO appointed as the Society
may direct, at the anniversary meeting in each
year, and TO hold until new appointment be
made who shall severally perform the duties in
dicated by their titles, and such other duties as
may be required by the occasional orders of the
Society.
RULE V. A majority of the thirteen officers
shall together constitute Board of Direction,
which shall have power TO call extra meetings of
the Society, to ill vacant Offices, and 20 do in the
recess whatsoever they may suppose requisite TO
be done before a meeting can be had.
RrLE vi. A quorum Of the Society may con-
sist Of eighteen members; in this count every OF.
tcer shall be counted as two.
Rule VII. The regular meetings Of the Socie
~ shall be according to adjournment; and in the
Village of Charlotte, If not otherwise ordered by
the Society.
Rule VIII. All questions shall be decided by
majority of votes.
RULE TX. There shall be committee appoin
led for the northern, southern, eastern and ives
tern sections of the County respectively, whose
duty shall be to inspect the farms in their several
sections, and report TO Society the farm best man.
uged in all its departments and for the best man
aged plantation in each section, premium shall
be adiuGged to The owner, conditonally, that he
furnish Society with written account Of his sys
fem Of farming.
1 Ruiz Y. This Constitution may be altered at
the annual meetings of the Society two.thirds
of the members being present, and two.thirds of
those present voting for the same.
RULE N. Any person not member of this
association, by paying into its Treasury the sum
of Five Dollars, may compete for any one of the
premiums offered by Society at any of its fairs.
RULE XII. Ne premium shall be awarded upon
any production which the Committee appointed
10 examine it, shall not deem above ordinary and
deserving premium.
Rule XIII. Absent members shall be subject
to fine of fifty cents, unless an excuse deemed
valid by majority of the members present, be
rendered TO the next meeting.
" We invite the attention of our friends
TO the proceedings Of Convention of Dele
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