MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Organized January 5, 1859, at Jefferson Citij. 



Incorporated 1893; at Jrffi-rsun City. 



INCORPORATION AND REORGANIZATION OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 BY AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1893. 



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 6, 7, 8, 1893, the 

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



MEMBERSHIP. 



Under the nevv^ constitution the law requires the payment of $1 per 

 year for membership fee. Life membership, $10. 



L. A. GOOD^L\N, Secretary. 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri Horticultural 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 ma.ke and use a com- 

 mon seal and alter the same at pleasure. 



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

 interest in the advancement of Horticulture in this State, who shall apply for mem- 

 bership 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 Horti- 

 cultural Society, as now known and existing, and whose expenses have been borne 

 and annual reports paid for by appropriations from the State treasur.v. The busi- 

 ness of the Society, so far as it relates to transactions with the State, sh-:ill be 

 conducted by an Executive Board, to be composed of the President, Vice-President, 

 Second Vice-President. Secretary and Treasurer, who thall be elected by ballet at 

 an annual meeting- 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 ail moneys received by it. The Public Printer shall annually, under 

 the direction of the Board, print such number of the reports of the proceedings of the 

 Board, Society and auxilliary societies as may,^in the judgment of the State Prliiti 

 ing Commission, be justified by the appropriation made for that purpose by the 

 General Assembly, such annual report not to contain more than 400 pages. The 

 Secretary of the Society shall receive a salary of eight hundred dollars per annu.'ii 

 as full compensation for his services; all other officers shall serve without compen- 

 sation, except that they may receive their actual expenses in attending meetings 

 of the Board. 



