STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. XUl 



LAWS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE. 



An Act to Incorporate the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, i-epresented 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. Durley, Samuel Edwards, their associates and successors, members of the Illi- 

 nois State Horticultural Society, be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and cor- 

 porate, known by the name and style of" The Illinois Slate 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 to be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, to answer and to be answered unto, in all 

 the courts of law and equity of this State, and shall further enjoy all the privileges 

 incident to incorporations of said character, and not inconsistent with the laws of this 

 State. 



Sec. 4. It shall and may be lawful for said coi-poration to have and use a common 

 seal, and the same at their ])lcasure to change, alter, and make anew, and in general 

 have and exercise all such rights, privileges, and immunities as by law are incident to or 

 necessary to the Society herein constituted. 



Sec. 5. The Society shall have power to alter or amend their present constitution, 

 to make, alter, or repeal such by-laws as may be deemed necessary for cariying out the 

 objects of the Society. 



Sec. 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved Febmary 16, 1865. 



[Note.— The Society was/irst incorporated Feb. iilh, 1857— 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 by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the 

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

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

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

 tion, grape, strawberrj', or cranben7 vines, currant, goosel)err)', raspberry, or cultivated 

 blackbeny 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 ornamenal tree or shrubbery, planted or growing on any street, lane or alley, or 



