XIV TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



V. The Treasurer shall receive, and keep an accurate account of, all moneys 

 belonging to the Society, and disburse the same upon the written orders of the 

 President, which he shall retain and file as vouchers; he shall make an annual report 

 to the Society of the receipts and disbursements, which, with the vouchers, shall 

 be referred to a special auditing committee appointed at the annual meeting. 

 Before entering upon his duties, he shall give bond to the Society in the sum of five 

 thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of his duties; such bond to be 

 approved by the Executive Board. 



VI. The Executive Board shall, subject to the direction of the Society, man- 

 age all its affairs. 



VII. There shall be chosen annually, by the Executive Board, a Standing 

 Committee, to consist of one or more members from each of the three divisions — 

 Northern, Central, and Southern — of the State, on the following subjects : 



1. Meteorology in its relation to Horticulture. 



2. Geology and Soils. 



3. Botany and Vegetable Physiology. 



4. Entomology. 



5. Ornithology. 



6. Ornamental and Useful Trees. 



7. Fruit Packages. 



8. Testing New Varieties. 



9. Ad Interim. 



VIII. These By-Laws may be altered at any meeting by a majority vote. 



LAWS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE. 

 An Act to Incorporate the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the j>eofle of the State of Illinois, represented in the 

 Gewerrt/ ^55e/«^/)', 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. Pen- 

 nell, J. W. Fell, W. Durley, 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 privi- 

 leges 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 corporation to have and use a 

 common seal, and tl^e 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 incident to or necessary to the society herein constituted. 



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

 tution, to make, alter, or repeal such by-laws as may be deemed necessary for car- 

 rying out the objects of the Society. 



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



Approved February 16, 1S65. 



[Note — The Society was first incorporated Feb. nth, 1857 — two months after its organization. 

 —Ed]. 



