BY-LAWS. XV 



8th. Two members of the Executive Board are to be elected each year, to 

 hold the office for three years, but if any such member shall absent himself 

 from two or more consecutive meetings of the society, and of the Board, 

 without reason satisfactory to the Board, the said Board may, in its discretion, 

 consider the office vacant, and proceed to fill such vacancy by appointment, to 

 continue till the next annual election. 



VII. — THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE. 



1st. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board, annually, upon entering 

 upon the duties of the new year, to appoint, from their own number, three 

 members, who shall constitute a Business Committee for the year. 



2nd. All accounts or claims against the society, when presented to the Sec- 

 retary for payment, shall, before payment, receive the sanction and endorse- 

 ment of the Business Committee. 



3rd. Such claims shall be submitted to this Committee and approved in 

 duplicate ; one copy to remain with the Secretary as his warrant for the pay- 

 ment of the same, and the other to be transmitted by him to the President, 

 along with his order upon the Treasurer, as his warrant for countersigning the 

 same. 



4th. It shall be the duty of the Business Committee, upon application of 

 the Secretary, during the recess of the Executive Board, to advise with him as 

 to the expediency of making any contemplated but questionable expenditure 

 for which occasion may arise during such recess. 



VIII. — STANDING COMMITTEES. 



1st. There shall be a standing Committee on Kevision of the Catalogue, to 

 be composed of one member from each of the five districts into which the 

 State is, for this purpose, divided, with one member chosen from the State at 

 large, who shall be the chairman of the Committee. 



2ud. Each member of said Committee (except the chairman) is empowered 

 and expected to choose a sub-committee for his district, of which he shall be 

 chairman. 



3rd. It shall be the duty of each subcommittee to collect and report, each 

 year, to the general chairman, such facts respecting fruit culture in the dis- 

 trict as shall promise to be of value in the revision of the catalogue. 



4th. There shall be a standing Committee on New Fruits, to consist-of a 

 chairman, with as many associates as such chairman shall find it desirable to 

 appoint. 



5th. Such other standing committees may, from time to time, be appointed 

 by the executive board as, in its discretion, it shall deem desirable or necessary. 



6th. All standing committees are expected to report at the annual meeting 

 in December any information of value to the society or its members that may 

 have come to their knowledge during the year, as well as any scientific theories, 

 deductions or facts that, in their opinion, may be useful in advancing the 

 objects for which the society is laboring. 



IX. — LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. 



1st. All moneys coming into the treasury of the society in payment for life 

 memberships shall constitute a perpetual fund, to be known as the life mem- 

 bership fund. 



