xii TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LA W^S, 



AS AMENDED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1872. 



CONSTITUTION. 



I. This Association shall be known as the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society. 



II. Its objects shall be the advancement of the science of Pomology and of the 

 art of Horticulture. 



III. Its members shall consist of Annual members, paying an annual fee of 

 one dollar ; of Life members, paying a fee of twenty dollars at one time ; and of 

 Honorary members, who shall only be persons of distinguished merit 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. 



IV. Its officers shall consist of a President, one Vice-President from each Fruit 

 District in the State, a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Execu- 

 tive Board, which shall consist of the President, the last three Ex-Presidents, and the 

 Secretary' ; all of whom shall be elected at the annual meeting, and serve from the 

 first of January until the thirty-first of December, and until their successors are 

 elected. 



V. It shall hold an annual meeting and other meetings, and an annual fair, as 

 the Society or the Executive Board may direct. 



VI. This Constitution' may be amended at any regular meeting, by a two-thirds 

 vote of the members present. 



