16 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. Name. This association shall be known as the Ne- 

 braska State Horticultural Society. 



ARTICLE II. Object. This society shall have for its object the 

 promotion of pomology, arborculture, floriculture, and gardening. 



ARTICLE III. Membership. The membership of this society 

 shall consist of four classes, viz., active, associate, annual honorary, and 

 life honorary. The active membership shall consist of persons practi- 

 cally engaged in fruit culture, forestry, floriculture, or gardening, who 

 shall be admitted to life membership on the payment of a fee of $5 at 

 one time; to associate membership, by the payment of a fee of $1 an- 

 nually. The honorary members shall consist of such persons as may 

 be elected at any meeting of the Society by a two-thirds vote of the 

 members present, and shall have all the privileges and benefits of the 

 Society, except those of voting and holding ofiice, which privileges shall 

 belong exclusively to active members. 



ARTICLE IV. Officers. The officers of this society shall be a 

 president, first and second vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer, and 

 board of directors of eight members, said board consisting of the of- 

 ficers enumerated in this article and three additional members. The 

 officers, with the exception of secretary, shall be elected by ballot at 

 the annual meeting of the society in January. The secretary shall be 

 elected by the executive board. The term of office of these officers, 

 with the exception of directors, shall be for a period of one year, com- 

 mencing on the first day of June following. One dirctor shall be 

 elected for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and 

 afterward every year one director to serve for three years. 



ARTICLE V. Duties of President. It shall be the duty of the 

 president to preside at all meetings of the society, appoint all commit- 

 tees not otherwise provided for, countersign all orders drawn on the 

 treasurer by the secretary; in conjunction with the secretary he shall 

 arrange all programs for the meetings of the society, and perform such 

 other duties as the society or board of directors may require. 



ARTICLE VI. Duties of Vice-Presidents. The vice-presidents 

 shall superintend all exhibits of the society, and in case of vacancy in 

 the office of president at any meeting of the society or board of direc- 

 tors, shall perform all the fulictions of that office in the order of their 

 rank. 



