CONSTITUTION. 



Article l. This Association shall be known as the Horticultural 

 Society of Xortiikrx Illinois, and shall embrace the counties of Bu- 

 reau, Boone, Cook. Carroll, DuPage, DeKalb, Henry, Grundy, Jo Daviess, 

 Kane, Kendall, Kankakee, Lake, Lee, LaSalle, McHenry. Ogle, Putnam, 

 Rock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside, AVinnebago and AV'iil. 



Art. 2. Its object shall be the advancement of theScience of Pomology 

 and the Art of Horticulture. 



Art. 3. Its members shall consist of annual members paying an an- 

 nual fee of 81.00; of life members paying a fee of $10, at one time; and of 

 lionorary members, who shall only be persons of distinguished merits in 

 horticulture or kindred sciences, who may, by vote, be invited to participate 

 in the privileges of the Society. The wives of members shall be members 

 without fee. 



Art. 4. The officers shall consist of a President, three Vice-Presidents, 

 one Recording Secretary, one Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, and an 

 Executive Committee, which shall consist of the President, ex-President, 

 Corresponding Secretary and Recording Secretary, all of whom shall be 

 elected at the annual meeting, and shall serve one year from the 1st of Feb- 

 ruary ;ind until their successors are elected. The Executive Committee 

 shall have the management of the affairs of the Society. 



Art. o. The Vice-President first elected shall be a member of the Ex- 

 ecutive Board of the State Horticultural Society. 



Art. 6. The Association shall hold annual meetings at such time and 

 place as may be determined by tlie Executive Committee. 



Art. 7. This Constitution may be amended at any regular meeting by 

 a two-thirds vote of the members present. 



BY-LAWS. 



1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society, call meet- 

 ings of the Executive Committee, and, under its direction, have a general 

 superintendence of the allairs of the Society and direction of the expendi- 

 tures of its money; he shall deliver an annual address on some subject con- 

 nected with horticulture, and shall appoint all committees, unless otherwise 

 ordered. 



2. Tlie Vice-Presidents, in the order of their appointment, shall act in 

 case of the absence or disability of the President, and shall, by correspond- 

 ence, and jjersonal intercourse with the horticulturists of their several local- 

 ities, endeavor to organize local societies, obtain accurate information of ihe 

 condition and progress of horticulture therein, and report annually, in writ- 

 ing, to the Society. 



3. The Corresponding Secretary shall attend to all the correspondence 

 of the Society. 



4. The Recording Secretary shall record the proceedings of the Society, 

 file and preserve all papers behmging to it, and prepare its reports for pub- 

 lication. 



5. The Treasurer shall receive and keep an accurate account of all 

 moneys behmging to the Society, and disburse the same upon the written 

 orders of tiie President, which he sliall retain and lih- ;is vouciiers ; he 

 shall make an annual report to the Society of the receipts and disburse- 

 ments, which, with tlie vouciiers, shall be referred to the Executive Com- 

 mittee for settlement. 



