The record-union., 1891-06-22
The Proposed Plan of Permanent
Organization.
report of the Committee to be Sub
m1tted at Club Meeting
This Evening.


CHARTER.
Article 1.-The name of this association
shall be the Capital Turf and Driving
Club"
Article 2-The principal place of busi-
ness of this club shall be Sacramento,
California.
Article 3.-The object of this club is to
promote good fellowship among its MEM
bers, and to encourage the ownership,
breeding and driving ofhigh bred buggy,
carriage and track horses, and further to
maintain permanent spring race meet
ing each year at Sacramento, and to pro-
vide for driving meeting at stated times
during the year, for the purpose OF ex-
hibiting and speeding their horses, and
for any other business connected with
the breeding or exhibition of live stock.
Article 4.-The rules for the organiZa-
ton and management of this club shall be
prescribed by the bylaws.
BYLAWS.
Membership.-For the purpose Of pro-
viding ways and means for the mainten-
ance of this club the membership shall be
divided into permanent and annual
members.
Glass A for l89l.-Permanent members
are designated to mean all who subscribe
to $50 membership, upon which pay
ments thereto shall be made as follows:
Twenty dollars upon signing the roll; SIS
on or before April 1st of the second year;
$40 on or before April lst of the third
year; s. on or before April 1st Of the
fourth year after signing.
And it is hereby provided that at the
end Of the fourth year after subscribing,
all moneys in this class, over and above
the amount necessary to be set apart as
reserve fund for the expenses Of the fifth
III L. i ,1Nl to ~
memberS of this class in good standing.
For the year 1892, and each subsequent
year thereafter, new series, or class of
permanent members shall be opened, and
at the end of every fourth year subse-
quent to the opening of each series, the
same disposal of funds shall be made as
is provided for in class A, of 1891.
1t is further provided that any member
in good standing at the end of four years,
shall be thereafter known as an honorary
member, and shall receive all the priv
ileges of the club during lifetime, with
voice in the management of the club after
the time he shall cease to be permanent
member.
ANNUAL MEMBERS.
A person shall become an annual mem
Der Of the club upon the payment of IS
each year, but shall not be eligible to any
Office in the club, nor have any vote in
management; nor shall they be entitled
to any profits Of the club, or be liable for
any Of its Indebtedness.
Forfeiture of fMembership.-All perma-
nent members, who do not meet pay
ments on their subscriptions within ten
days after they shall have become due,
shall forfeit their mem berShiD and have
no further voice in its management, or be
entitled to any profits Of the club.
The Board of Directors shall have
power, by a vote of two-thirds of the
members thereof, to forfeit the member
ship of any member of the club for any
conduct on his part likely to endanger the
welfare, interest or character of the club,
or for any conduct in violation of the
rules of the club. Permanent members
are not liable for any portion of their un-
paid subscription after membership is
forfeited.
MANAGEMENT.
The entire management of this club is
vested IN n Board of Directors consisting
of nine members, who shall be elected by
the permanent members of this club.
This board shall be divided into three
classes of three members each, numbered
ConseCutively, the term of office of the
first class to expire on the day Of the an
nual election of 1892, the second, one
year thereafter, and the third, two years
thereafter.
Directors shall hold over until their
successors are elected. The annual meet
ings of the club shall be held on the first
Monday in November, 1892, and each
year thereafter on said day, at the office
of the club, or such other place as may be
provided by the Board of Directors, and
ii for any reason such annual meeting is
not held upon the day named, the Presi-
dent shall call a meeting of the perma-
nent members, to be held within fifteen
days thereafter, upon notice given. At
each annual meeting Of the permanent
members, they shall select from among
their number three directors, to succeed
those whose terms expire on the day of
such election, and each permanent mem
Der shall be entitled to vote only i'll per-
son.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
a quorum of the Board of Directors
shall consist of not less than five mem
bers. Any less number may adjourn
meeting, and may order future meeting
of the board.
The Board of Directors shall meet at
the call of the Secretary within ten DAYS
after the annual election, and elect by
ballot from among their number Presi-
dent Nice-President and Treasurer. who
with the Secretary shall constitute the
regular officers of the club. They may
also elect a Secretary and provide for
such standing committees as may be by
them deemed necessary. All such Off
GERS or committees or any member
thereof may be removed by a vote of two
thirds of the directors at any time, and
any vacancies in the board may be filled
by the remaining directors, to hold until
the the next annual election.
The Board of Directors may provide for
an exhibition of driving horses upon the
track, at such times during the year as
may be agreed upon, and may provide
further TOR stated meetings, as often as
twice each week on .he Riverside road
for competition among members only in
the furtherance of the object of this club.
Special meetings of the Board of Di-
rectors may be called by order of the
President, or Vice-PreSident (acting in
his abscncel, three days prior notice
thereof in writing having been duly
given by the Secretary.
INSPECTORS OF ELECTION.
The directors shall appoint three In
spectors OF Election 10 serve at the next
annual meeting of the permanent mem
bers, at least thirty DAYS previous to such
meeting, and the Secretary shall furnish
10 the inspectors of Election an alpha
hetical list of all permanent members in
good standing that are entitled to vote at
such meeting.
THE PRESIDENT.
II shall be the duty of the President TO
preside at all meetings of the permanent
members and of the Board of Directors.
The President shall be an ex x-officio men,
ber Of all committees, but shall not vote
upon any question before said commit
tees, except in case OF a tie vote of the
other members present.
The President, together with the Secre-
tory, shall sign all checks, certificates of
membership, records and other instru-
ncnts necessary in the management OF
the club.