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, VV. 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 Illi- 

 nois 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 y 



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 incoi-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 ils passage. 



Approved February 16, 1865. 



[Note. — The Society was /fr^/ incorporated Feb. nth, T857— 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 heretefore 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 pro- 

 vided, three Horticultural Societies, to be organized in the three Horticultural Districts 

 of the State, which shall be known as the Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois, 

 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, Rock 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, Livingston. McLean, McDonough, Marshall, 

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

 Shelby, Schuyler, Scott, Stark, Vermillion, Tazewell, Warren, 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, 

 FrankUn, Green, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jackson, John- 

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

 Pope, Pulaski, Richland, Randolph, St. Clair, Saline, Union, Wayne, White, Washing- 

 ton, Williamson and Wabash (41). 



