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officers of the society, in consequence of any failure to elect at the annual 

 meeting, as provided in section IV. of the constitution, all persons entitled 

 as members to vote at such annual meeting shall be considered as retain- 

 ing such membership for such purpose until such election and until such 

 officers so elected shall have been inducted into office. 



XI. — RULES FOR DISCUSSIONS, ETC. 



1st. The deliberations and discussions of the society shall be conducted 

 in accordance with ordinary parliamentary usages. 



XII. — AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 



1st. The society shall in all reasonable and proper ways encourage the 

 formation of local horticultural or pomological societies auxiliary to this 

 society in all such counties or other municipalities of this state as shall 

 afford a reasonable prospect that they will be able, effectively, to maintain 

 the same. 



2d. It shall be the policy of this society in supervising the organization 

 of such local auxiliaries to secure an identity of constitutional provisions 

 throughout, and in so doing to insure harmony among them; but at the 

 same time it will not discourage the including l3y them of special or local 

 objects in cases in which such shall be found desirable, so long as the 

 introduction of the requisite provisions therefor into the constitution and 

 by-laws of the auxiliary society shall not be deemed likely to interfere with 

 the harmonious workings of the whole. 



3d. Any person may become a full member of an auxiliary society, for 

 one year, by paying into its treasury the sum of one dollar; and a com- 

 pliance with the provisions of clause fifth of these by-laws shall constitute 

 him also a member of this society, for the same term. 



4th. The wife, and the resident, single or unmarried daughters of any 

 full member, may also become members of such auxiliary society upon the 

 payment of fifty cents each: Provided, That in such case such entire 

 family shall become entitled to a single copy, only, of the current volume 

 of the transactions of this society. 



5th. On receipt of the names of such members, with the required fees, 

 the secretary shall immediately transmit their names and postoffice 

 addresses, together with half the membership fee of each, to the secretary 

 of this society, who shall record the same and pay the money into the 

 treasury for the benefit of the general fund. 



6th. It shall be the duty of the secretary, on receipt of such remittance, 

 with list of members, to sujoply such auxiliary society with a certificate of 

 membership in this society for one year, together with a copy of the cur- 

 rent volume of transactions for each full member so remitted for. 



7th. The proceedings of such auxiliary societies shall, at the close of 

 the year, be forwarded, in succinct form, to the secretary of this society, to 

 be by him incorporated into the annual volume of transactions, accom- 

 panied by a list of its members for the year. 



8th. The auxiliary societies shall, as far as practicable, be made the 

 medium for the distribution of the annual volumes of the transactions of 

 the society; the nuclei for its meetings, and the means of creating interest 

 therein, as well as the means of collecting such facts or other information 



