Incorporation and Reorganization 



Of the Horticultural Society by an act of the General Asse7nbly in i8g^ 



The following law was passed by the Legislature, incorporating 

 the State Horticultural Society. The Executive Committee met soon 

 after the passage of this act and accepted its provisions, and at the 

 semi-annual meeting of the Society at Columbia, June G-7-8, 1893, the 

 act was adopted as part of the constitution of the Society. 



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MEMBEBSHIP. 



Under the new constitution the law requires the payment of $1 

 per year for membership fee. We hope that we shall have a good long 

 list of members under our new plan for business. The plan under 

 which we have been working, of giving each local society the privi- 

 lege of paying their fee into their local society, thus making them a 

 member of the State Society, cannot now avail. Each person must 

 T)ecorae a member of the State Society and keep up his membership 

 each year. We should like to see a good number of life members also. 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



ACT OF THE GENERAI. ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri State HortlcuUural Society Is hereby Instituted and created a body cor- 

 porate, to be named and styled as above, and shall have perpetual succession, power to 

 sue and be sued, complain and defend In all courts, and to make and use a common seal and 

 alter the same at pleasure. 



The Missouri State Horticultural Society shall be composed of such persons as take an 

 Interest in the advancement of horticulture in this State, who shall apply for Inembership 

 and pay Into the Society treasury the sum of one dollar per year, or ten dollars for a life 

 membership, the basis for organization to be the Missouri State Horticultural Society, as 

 now known and existing, and whose expenses have been borne and annual reports paid for 

 by appropriations from the State treasury. The business of the Society, so far as it relates 

 to transactions with the State, shall be conducted by an executive board, to be composed of 

 the President, Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall 

 be elected by ballot at an annual me.eting of the Society; the Governor of the State shall be 

 ex officio a member of the Board— all other business of the Society to be conducted as Its by- 

 laws may direct. All appropriations made by the State for the aid of the Society shall be 

 expended by means of requisitions to be made by order of the Board on the State Auditor, 

 signed by the President and Secretary and attested with the seal; and the Treasurer shall 

 annually publish a detailed statement of the expenditures of the Board, covering all moneys 

 received by it. The Public Printer shall annually, under the direction of the Board, print 

 such number of reports of the proceedings of the Board, Society and auxiliary societies as 

 may in the .judgment of the State Printing commission be justified by the appropriation 

 made for that purpose by the General Assembly, such annual report not to contain more 

 than four hundred pages. The Secretary of the Society shall receive a salary of eight hun- 

 dred dollars per annum as full compensation for his services; all other officers shall serve 

 without compensation, except that they may receive their actual expenses In attending 

 meetings of the Board. 



