State Horticultural Society. 



CONSTITUTION. 



Ailiclc I. This association shall be known as the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society: Its objects shall be the promotion of horticulture in all its branches. 



Art. II. Any person may become a member of this Society upon the payment of 

 one dollars and membership shall continue upon the payment of one dollar annually: 

 Provided, however, that no person shall be allowed to vote on a question of a change 

 of the constitution or the election of officers of this Society until after he has been 

 a member for a period of one year preceding the time of election, except in case of 

 a life member. 



The payment of ten dollars at any one time shall constitute a person a life mem- 

 ber and honorary members may be elected at any regular meeting of the Society; and 

 any lady may become a member by giving her name to the Secretary. 



Art. III. The officers of this Society shall consist of President, Vice-President, 

 Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected by ballot at 

 each regular annual meeting, and whose term of office shall be for one year, begin- 

 ning on the first day of June, following their election. The President, Vice-President 

 and Treasurer shall be eligible to but one successive re-election. • 



Art. IV. The elective officers of this Society shall constitute an Executive Com- 

 mittee, at any meeting of which a majority of the members shall have power to trans- 

 act business. The other duties of the officers shall be such as usually pertain to the 

 same officers in similar organizations. 



Art. V. The regular meetings of this society shall be held annually on the first 

 Tuesday in December and June, except when otherwise ordered^by the Executive 

 Committee. Special meetings of the Society may be called by the Executive Com- 

 mittee, and meetings of the committee by the President and Secretary. 



Art. VI. As soon after each regular annual meeting as possible, the President 

 shall appoint the following standing committees, and they shall be required to give 

 a report in writing, under their respective heads, at the annual and semi-annual 

 meetings of the Society', of what transpires during the year of interest to the Society: 

 Orchards, Vineyards, Stone Fruits, Small Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Ornamentals, 

 Entomology, Ornithology, Botany, Nomenclature, New Fruits, Injurious Fungi, 

 Packing and Marketing Fruit and Transportation. 



Art. VII. The treasurer shelll give a bond in twice the sum he is expected to 

 handle, executed in trust to the Pi-esident of this Society (forfeiture to be made to 

 yie Society), with two or more sureties, qualifying before a notary public, of their 

 tiualiflcations as bondsmen, as is provided by the statute concerning securities. 



Art. VIII. This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the mem- 

 bers present at any regular meeting. 



MODEL COXSTITUTIOK 



Article I. This association shall be known as Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Art. II. All persons interested in the subject of Horticulture may 

 become members of this Society by signing the Constitution and paying 

 annually to the treasurer the sum of one dollar : And provided further, 

 that any person paying at one time the sum of ten dollars to the treas- 

 urer, may become a life member, and thereafter exempt from annual 

 duos: Provided, further, that all ladies may become members by sign- 

 ing the Constitution without the payment of one dollar. 



Art. III. Section i. The officers of this Society shall consist of 

 a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and executive commit- 



