^A Bill for^ An Act to amend the Charter of ^an act entitled “An act to Incorporate ^ The Union Agricultural Society.

Approved Feby.[February] 19^th 1839

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that section No. five of the Act of Incorporation of the Union Agricultural Society, be annulled and the following be inserted as the fifth section, to wit: “Said commissioners or a majority of them, may open Books for subscriptions to said capital stock, at such times and places as they may think best, by advertising the same at least fourteen days previous in two or more of the newspapers published in said counties, and may close the same at pleasure, and may appoint committees to receive subscriptions, and abrogate the same or any of them at pleasure; and any subscriptions that have been or may be made under the direction of the commissioners, or the committees by them appointed or to be appointed, are hereby legalised and made valid.[”]

2. That section No. seven of said act be also annulled, and the following inserted as the seventh section to wit: “If the subscriptions to the capital stock shall exceed ten thousand dollars, the commissioners may apportion the same among the subscribers thereto, or increase the capital stock from time to time to any amount less than thirty thousand dollars.”

3. That section No. eight ^of said act^ be also annulled, and the following inserted as the eighth section, to wit: “Said commissioners shall continue in office during the pleasure of the trustees, and when removed, the powers vested in them, may

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shall vest in and may be executed by the trustees.”

Sec. 4 That the words, “which election shall be annually,” at the end of the ninth section, and all of section No. eleven, be also annulled, and the following be inserted as the eleventh section, to wit: “The trustees hereafter, shall be elected at such times as may be provided in the by-laws, and shall hold their officers until others are elected in their places; and notice of the time and place of holding such election, shall be given by the secretary, by advertising the same at least fourteen days previous in two or more of the newspapers published in said counties.”

5. That after the words “a treasurer,” in the fifteenth section of said act, the following be inserted, to wit: “(of whom they may require bonds in a sum sufficient to insure the faithful discharge of his duties,)”; and at the end of the same section the following be added, to wit: “They may also establish or connect with this society, branches or auxiliary societies of a like character.”)

6. That if this society shall be organised within one year from the passage of this act, the privileges and benefits of the original act of incorporation, and of this amendment, shall be and are hereby secured to it.