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ARTICLE V. — TERMS OF OFFICE. 



The officers specified in Article II. shall hold their offices till the thirty-first 

 day of December of the year for which they were elected, and thereafter until 

 their successors shall have been elected, and shall have signified to the Secre- 

 tary their acceptance: Provided, That the terms of office of the six members 

 of the Executive Board shall be so arranged that but two regular vacancies 

 shall occur in each year. 



ARTICLE VI. — ANNUAL AND LIFE MEMBERS. 



Any person may become a member of the society for one year by paying to 

 the Treasurer the sum of one dollar; but all annual memberships shall expire 

 on the thirty-first day of December of the year for which they were taken, 

 except as may be provided by the by-laws. Any person may become a life 

 member by the payment at any one time of the sum of ten dollars into the 

 treasury of the society. 



ARTICLE VII. — AMOUNT OR LIMIT OF PROPERTY. 



The society may hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding 

 twenty thousand dollars. 



ARTICLE VIII. — BY-LAWS. 



By-laws for the government of the society shall be framed, and when need- 

 ful, amended by the Executive Board ; but changes thereof may be at any 

 time proposed by the society in general meeting. 



ARTICLE IX. — AMENDMENTS. 



This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the society by 

 a vote, by ballot, of two-thirds of all the members present, and voting : Pro- 

 vided, That notice of such proposed amendment, specifying its purport, shall 

 have been given at the last previous regular meeting. 



BY-LAWS OF THE MICHIGAN STATE HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



I. — THE PRESIDENT. 



1st. The President shall be the executive officer of the society, and of the 

 Executive Board; and it shall be his duty to see that the rules and regulations 

 of the society, and of the Executive Board, are duly enforced and obeyed. 



2d. He may, in his discretion, and in the lack of needful rules, during the 

 recesses of the society and of the board, prescribe rules for the management of 

 the interests or business of the society, such rules to continue in force till the 

 next session of the Executive Board, and until by its action they shall have 

 become no longer necessary. 



3d. He shall act in conjunction with the Secretary in the preparation of pro- 



