2 1903, Session 1, c. 17 19 June, 1903 Short title Interpretation Objects of AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. An Ordinance respecting Agricultural Societies. TH [Assented to June 19, 1903.] HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Agricultural Societies Ordinance." 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 1. INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. The expression "department" means the department of agriculture; 2. The expression "commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture; 3. The expression "society" means any agricultural society organised or continued under this Ordinance. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 2. OBJECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 3. The objects of a society shall be to encourage improvement in agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, manufactures and the useful arts: 1. By holding meetings for the delivery of lectures and for the discussion of subjects connected with the theory and practice of any of the said industries; 2. By promoting the circulation of agricultural, pastoral, horticultural, arboricultural and mechanical periodicals, and by the formation and maintenance of a reference library on such subjects for the use of its members; 3. By importing and otherwise procuring seeds, plants and animals of new or valuable kinds; 4. By holding exhibitions as hereinafter provided at which prizes may be awarded for: (a) Excellence in the raising or introduction of live stock; (b) The invention or improvement of agricultural machines or implements; (c) The production of grains and all kinds of vegetables, 5. By offering prizes for essays on subjects relating to agriculture, including the prevention of prairie fires and the eradication of noxious weeds; 6. By taking action to eradicate poisonous and noxious weeds and to exterminate such animals as are found to injure or impede agriculture; 7. By carrying on experiments in the growing of crops, the feeding of stock or any other branch of agriculture or by testing any system of farming; 8. By affiliating and co-operating with associations organised to improve live stock or encourage grain growing, dairying, forestry or fruit growing or promote the study of plant life or the destruction of injurious insects and plants. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 3. of funds 4. The funds of agricultural societies howsoever derived Expenditure shall not be expended for any objects inconsistent with those authorised by this Ordinance. (2) Such funds shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the society in a chartered bank or other banking house; and all cheques shall be signed by the president or a vice president and the treasurer or secretary treasurer of the society. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 4. EXISTING SOCIETIES CONTINUED. societies 5. All agricultural societies established and in operation at Existing the time of the coming into force of this Ordinance shall be continued as agricultural societies under and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the present officers of such societies shall continue to hold office as such until the next annual meeting of the society. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 5. ORGANISATION OF SOCIETIES. 6. An agricultural society may be formed under the provisions hereof in the following manner: 1. An application in form A in the schedule hereto and containing the information indicated as required thereby shall be signed by not less than fifty persons all being over eighteen years of age and residents of the Territories and not being members of any other agricultural society; Organisation 2. Every person signing the said application shall pay at least one dollar as or as part of his first annual subscription to the funds of the proposed society and such moneys shall be paid to and be held by one of the subscribers in trust for the society; First meeting of members Report to be sent to department Persons eligible for 3. The application shall be verified by an affidavit of one of the subscribers in the form appended to said form A; 4. The application so verified shall be transmitted to the commissioner who if he approves thereof shall declare the subscribers thereto to be organised into a society under the name of "The Agricultural Society," and shall issue a certificate of such organisation in form B in the schedule hereto and thereupon the society shall be deemed to be formed and it shall be a corporation and in addition to its other rights as such it shall have the power to hold real estate necessary for the objects of the society; but any society may subject to the permission of the commissioner change its name at any time. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 6. 7. As soon as practicable after the formation of the society a meeting of the subscribers and of such other persons as may desire to become members thereof which shall be the first annual meeting of the society shall be held at the call of such person as the commissioner may nominate for that purpose and at such time and place and with such prior public notice as he may direct. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 7. 8. A report of the said meeting certified by the president and secretary which shall contain a statement of the number of members and a list of the officers elected and appointed shall be sent by the secretary to the department within one week after the meeting. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 8. MEMBERSHIP. 9. Any person who would have been qualified to sign an membership application for the formation of a society may become a member thereof at any time on payment to the treasurer of a membership fee of not less than one dollar. (2) Payment of the said fee shall entitle the person paying it to the privileges of membership for the year for which it is paid. (3) At the time of payment of his membership fee every member shall give to the treasurer the post office address to which all notices of meetings and other notices shall be sent, (4) Subject to the bylaws of the society a firm or an incorporated company may become a member of any society by the payment of the regular fee; but the name of one person only shall in any one year be entered as the representative or agent of such firm or company and that person only shall exercise the privileges of membership in the society. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 9. SUPERINTENDENT OF FAIRS. Officers 10. The commissioner may from time to time appoint a appointed by superintendent of fairs and institutes and such other officers as commissioner may be required to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance and may appoint an inspector to examine the books and accounts of any society and may confer on him any or all of the powers which may be conferred on a commissioner appointed under the provisions of An Ordinance respecting Inquiries Concerning Public Matters. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 10. OFFICERS OF SOCIETY. 11. The officers of the society shall consist of a president Officers and two vice presidents who shall be ex officio directors and nine, twelve or fifteen additional elected directors as may be determined by the society, a secretary and a treasurer or a secretary treasurer and two auditors. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 11. of voters 12. The persons qualified to vote for officers or to be elected Qualification shall be only those members who have paid their membership and officers fee for the year in which the election is held. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 12. elected at first 13. At the first annual meeting all of the officers except the Officers to be secretary and the treasurer or the secretary treasurer shall be annual clected by ballot. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 13. meeting of president meeting 14. The president, vice presidents, directors and auditors Term of office elected at the first or any subsequent annual meeting shall elected at first hold office until the next following annual meeting. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 14. treasurer 15. The board of directors may from time to time appoint secretary a secretary and a treasurer or a secretary treasurer who may be a director or directors and who shall hold office during pleasure. 1903 Sess. 1, c. 17, s. 15. given by 16. The treasurer or secretary treasurer of every society Security to be before entering upon the duties of his office and within one treasurer |