CONSTITUTION AND 1!V-LA"\VS. IX 



Tliev shall render to the Governor of the State a detailed statement of all 

 funds received from the State and allotiier sources, which statement shall 

 also include all expenditures made by them, and the si)ecHic ()l)jects in de- 

 tail for which said sums were expended. They shall make no approi)ria- 

 tions without havintj: funds in hand to meet the same, and if any del)t is 

 created themembers of the Board shall be held severally and joijitly liable 

 for the jtavment of the same, and in no event shall the State of Illinois be 

 held lial)le or responsible for any del)t, ol)lif,Mtion, or contract made by the 

 Illinois State Horticultural Society or its Hxecutive Board. 



Sec. 5, The Illinois State ami the three District Horticultural Socie- 

 ties shall hold annual meetinj^s, at which their ollic«rs for the ensuing year 

 shall be elected. Within one month after the annual meeting of the J)is- 

 trict Societies, they !>hall forward to the Secretary of the Executive Board 

 a rei)ort of their transactions, including a list of othcera elected at such 

 meeting. The Executive Board shall i)ublish annually, at the expense of 

 said Society, a report of its transacticms and such other papers as they 

 may deem of valne to Horticulture and Arboriculture. Four members of 

 the'Executive Board shall constitute a (niorum for the transaction of 

 business. 



Sec. 6. Members of the several District Societies shall be entitled to 

 all the privileges of the members of the State Society, except that of vot- 

 ing for otlicers. 



Sec. 7. Bv-laws and rules that do not conflict with the laws of this 

 State may be ipassetl and enforced by the several Societies herein men- 

 tioned. 



Approved March 24, 1874.* 



'•'' The Society was first incorporated February 1 1 , !8.'>7— two months after its organization. 



