CONSTITUTION 



ARTICLE I. — Name. — This association shall be known as the 

 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



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

 promotion of pomology, arboriculture, 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 

 practically 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 annually. 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 office, which privileges 

 shall belong exclusively to active members and to associate members 

 ■n ho have been members of the society for twelve months and who shall 

 have paid their second annual dues. 



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

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

 board of directors of seven members, said board consisting of the 

 officers enumerated in this article, excepting a secretary, and three 

 additional members. The officers, with the exception of the 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, commencing on the first day of June fol- 

 lowing. One director shall be elected at the January meeting, 1906, for 

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

 every year one director to serve three years. 



ARTICLE V — Diitie.*; of President. — It shall be the duty of the 

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

 mittees not otherwise provided for, comntersign 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 per- 

 form such other duties as the society or board of directors may 

 require. 



ARTICLE VI. — Duties of Vice-President 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 



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