xiv TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



LAWS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE. 



An Act to Incorporate the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the people of the State of lUinois, represented in the 

 General Assembly, That Smiley Shepherd, O. B. Galusha, S. G. Minkler, W. C. Flagg, 

 J. T. Little, W. H. Van Epps, Lewis Ellsworth, Jason C. Ayres, W. A. Pennell, J. W. 

 Fell, W. Uurley, Samuel Edwards, their associates and successors, members of the 

 Illinois 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." 



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 in- 

 cident to incorporations 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 com- 

 mon 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 in- 

 cident to or necessary to the society herein constituted. 



Sec. 5. The Society shall have power to alter or amend their present constitu- 

 tion, 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 its passage. 



Approved February 16, 1865. 



[NoTK.- -The .Society wa^Jirst incorporated Feb. iith,Ji857 — two months after its organization. — 

 Ed.] 



An Act for the Protection of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, 



and Vegetable Products. 



Section i. Be it enacted l>y the people of the State of Illinois, represented iit the 

 General Assembly, That if any person or persons, in this State shall willfully, malic- 

 iously, and without lawful authority, cut down, root up, sever, injure, peel, or destroy 

 any fruit or ornamental tree, cultivated root or plant, fruit, or other vegetable produc- 

 tion, grape, strawberry, or cranberry vines, currants, gooseberry, raspberry or cultivated 

 blackberry bushes, standing or growing on or being attached to the land of another, or 

 shall willfully and without lawful authority, cut down, root up, destroy, or injure any 

 fruit or ornamental tree or shrubbery, planted or growing on any street, lane or alley, 

 or public grounds in any city, borough, or incorporated town in said State, every such 

 person so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof 

 shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 

 in the jail of the county not exceeding three months, or both, at the discretion of the 

 court, and shall, moreover, be liable in double the amount of damages to the party 

 injured. 



This law to take effect from and after its passage. 



Approved Feurlwvrv 15, 1865. 



