Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-11-25
Agricultural Society.

The Agricultural Society met at the Town
Hall, this place, on Wednesday morning
last and was called to order by President
Muncaster After the reading and adoption
Of the minutes of the last meeting, on motion
of Treasurer Higgins Mr.. E. ]. Hall was
unanimously elected member of the So
ciety for the present year.
The report of the committee appointed to
examine the plan proposed was then sub
mitted, as follows:
ROCKVILLE, Mo-, Nov. 10, 1892.
John iE. Muncsster, Secretary of the Agri-
cultural Society Of Montgomery county,
Maryland.
Dear Sir: We have received your letter of
November l. 1892, enclosing copy Of pro-
posed amendment to the charter Of the Agri-
cultural Society, and requesting an opinion
AZ to whether said proposed amendment is
legal, how it would affect the property, &c,
and what points it is necessary to change in
order to make it according to law"
By the terms of the charter, 'any citizen
Of Montgomery county, in the State of Ma
ryland, or Of the District Of Columbia, may
become member of said Society, on the
motion Of any member, approved by ma
jority vote Of the members present at any
meeting OF said Society or Board of Man
agement, and the payment Of the sum Of one
dollar, the payment Of which sum annually
shall be required for continued membership"
The effect of the proposed change in the
charter would be to Gust those members who
declined to take stock hereunder. We think
that this cannot be legally done. Their rights
of membership are complete under the exist
ing charter, and they have a substantial in
terest 10 the property of the Society Of which
they cannot be deprived in the manner pro-
posed.
In our judgment, there is but one feasible
plan, namely: To form new stock company
and acquire by purchase the property of the
present Society. The present Societys title
to the Fair Ground property is good mar
ketable title, and can be alienated in the man
ner prescribed by the charter-that IS upon
"the recommendation Of the Board of Man
agement, approved by not less than three
fourths OF the members present at a meeting
called for that purpose and comprising not
less than thirty members"
There would be no difficulty in changing
the date Of the annual meeting of the Society
by an amendment Of the charter to that
effect
Very respectfully,
PHILIP D. LAIRD,
THOMAS ANDERSON.
On motion of w. G. Fowler the report
was adopted.
On motion it was decided to postpone the
question Of turning the Society into stock
concern indefinitely.
On motion the following resolutions were
adopted:
BE ii resolved, That the fourth clause of the
sixth paragraph of the articles OF incOrpora-
ton OF this Society be and hereby is re
pealed, and be it
ResOtoed, That the following clause shall
be substituted for the said fourth clause
THAT the annual meeting for the election
OF officers and the transaction Of such other
business as may come before the Society
shall be held on the second Wednesday OF
January OF each year, and in case said cleo
ton shall not take place on said day 1t may
take place on any subsequent day at a meet
ing called by the President or Vice Presi-
dent, of which at least two weeks notice shall
be given by publication in a newspaper
published in Rockville in said county"
Be ii resolved, That the second and third
clauses of said sixth paragraph Of the arti-
Giles of Incorporation be and hereby are re-
pealed, and be it
ResOtUed, That the following clause shall
be substituted for them:
THAT the officers elected at the last an
nual meeting shall manage the concerns of
the corporation until the second Wednes-
day 10 January, 1893, after which the affairs
of the Society shall be managed by Board
of Directors, composed OF eleven members,
who shall be elected annually by ballot.
The Board of Directors shall appoint Sec
rotary and Treasurer, and from their own
number shall choose President and Vice
President, and shall perform such other
duties as the Society may by bylaw direct.
On motion the meeting adjourned.