14 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



ACT OF REORGANIZATION OF THE STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



Chapter 151, Laws of 1879. 



Section 1. The executive committee of the Wisconsin State Horticultural 

 Society shall hereafter consist of the president, secretary and treasurer of 

 said society, and of one member from each congressional district of the 

 state; said members from the congressional districts to be chosen annually 

 by the county and local horticultural societies in the respective districts. 



Section 2. The present officers and executive committee of said society 

 shall bold their respective offices until the Tuesday next succeeding the first 

 Monday in February, 1880, and until their successors are appointed. 



Section 3. It shall be the duty of the said society to aid in the formation 

 and maintenance of county and local horticultural societies; to promote the 

 horticultural interests of the state by the holding of meetings for discussion; 

 by the collection and dissemination of valuable information in regard to the 

 cultivation of fruits, flowers and trees adapted to our soil and climate, and 

 in every proper way to advance the fruit and tree growing interests of the 

 state. 



Section 4. The annual meeting of the society shall be held on the Tues- 

 day next succeeding the first Monday in February of each year, for the 

 election of its officers, the transaction of general business, and the considera- 

 tion of questions pertaining to horticulture. 



Section 5. All vacancies in the offices of said society may be filled by the 

 executive committee ; and should there be a failure to elect a member of the 

 executive committee in any district, the vacancy may be filled by a two- 

 thirds vote of the members of the society present at any regularly appointed 

 meeting. 



Section 6. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said society to make an 

 annual report to the governor of the state, of the transactions of the society, 

 including an itemized account of all moneys expended during the year, in 

 addition to such matters as are now specified in the law relating to the same. 



Section 7. The number of printed pages of said report shall not exceed 

 three hundred and fifty, and the number of copies shall be limited to three 1 

 thousand five hundred. In all other respects, the publication and distribu- 

 tion^of said report shall be in accordance with the provisions of the law now 

 in force concerning the same. 



Section 8. The sum of $G00 is hereby appropriated out of any money in 

 the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to aid the said society in car_ 

 rying out the provisions of this act; said sum to be paid by the state 



