394 ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



STATE LAWS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE. 



An Act to incorporate the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the 

 General Assembly, That Smiley Shepherd, O. B. Galusha, S. G. Minkler, W. C. Flagg, 

 J. T. Little, W. H. Van Epps, Lewis Ellsworth, Jason C. Ayers, W. A. Pennell, J. W. 

 Fell, W. Durley, Samuel Edwards, their associates and successors, members of the 

 Illinois State Horticultural Society, be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and 

 corporate, known by the name and style of ''The Illinois State Horticultural Society.''' 



Sec. 2. The object of the Society being to promote the science of Pomology and 

 the art of Horticulture, they shall be allowed, for those purposes only, to take and hold 

 real and personal estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. 



Sec. 3. This Society shall have the right to contract and be contracted with, to sue 

 and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered unto, in all the courts 

 of law and equity of this State, and shall further enjoy all the privileges incident to incor- 

 porations of said character, and not inconsistent with the laws of this State. 



Sec. 4. It shall and may be lawful for said corporation to have and use a common 

 seal, and the same at their pleasure to change, alter, and make anew, and in general 

 have and exercise all such rights, privileges and immunities as by law are incident to or 

 necessary to the Society herein constituted. 



Sec. 5. The Society shall have power to alter or amend their present constitution, 

 to make, alter or repeal such by-laws as may be deemed necessary for carrying out the 

 objects of the Society. 



Sec. 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved February 16. 1865. 



[Note. — The Society wa.s _first incorporated Feb. nth, 1857 — two months after its organization. — Ed.] 



An Act to re-organize the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



Section i . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the 

 General Assembly, That the organization heretofore chartered and aided by appropria- 

 tions, under the name of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, is hereby made and 

 declared a public corporation of the State. 



Sec. 2. The Illinois State Horticultural Society shall embrace, as hereinafter 

 provided, three Horticultural Societies, to be organized in the three Horticultural Dis- 

 tricts of the State, which shall be known as the Horticultural Society of Northern Illi- 

 nois, now operating in the counties of Bureau, Boone, Cook, Carroll, DuPage, DeKalb, 

 Henry, Grundy, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, Kankakee, Lake, Lee, LaSalle, McHenry, 

 Ogle, Putnam, Kock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside, Winnebago and Will (23); the 

 Horticultural Society of Central Illinois, operating in the counties of Adams, Brown, 

 Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Fulton, Ford, Iroquois, 

 Hancock, Henderson, Knox, Logan, Livin^zston, McLean, McDonough, Marshall, 

 Mason, Mercer, Menard, Morgan, Macon, Moultrie, Peoria, Pike, Piatt, Sangamon, 

 Shelby, Schuyler, Scott, Stark, Vermillion, Tazewell, Warren and Woodford (38); and the 

 Horticultural Society of Southern Illinois, operating in the counties of Alexander, Bond, 

 Clark, Clay, Crawford, Calhoun, Cumberland, Clinton, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, 

 Franklin, Green, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jackson, Johnson, 

 Lawrence, Madison, Macoupin, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Massac, Perry, Pope, 

 Pulaski, Richland, Randolph, St. Clair, Saline, Union, Wayne, White, Washington, 

 Williamson and Wabash (41). 



Sfx. 3. The affairs of the Illinois State Horticultural Society shall be managed by 

 an Executive Board, to consist of the President and Secretaries of said Society and the 



