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interests of the society, to watch over its finances, and to provide for its 

 necessities as they shall arise. 



6th. All important measures shall be submitted to this board, but they 

 may by the board be resubmitted to the society with recommendations. 



7th. The board shall, at the annual meeting, submit through the sec- 

 retary, in connection with the reports of officers, such further report 

 upon the condition, interests, and prospects of the society as it shall judge 

 necessary or expedient. 



8th. Two members of the execiitive board are to be elected each year, 

 to hold the office for three years, but if any such member shall absent him- 

 self from two or more consecutive meetings of the society and of the 

 board without reason satisfactory to the board, the said board may, in its 

 discretion, consider the office vacant, and proceed to fill such vacancy by 

 appointment, to continue to the next annual election. 



VII. — THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE. 



1st. It shall be the duty of the executive board, annually, upon entering 

 upon the duties of the new year, to appoint from their own number three 

 members who shall constitute a business committee for the year. 



2d. All accounts or claims against the society, when presented to the 

 secretary for payment, shall,, before payment, receive the sanction and 

 indorsement of the business committee. 



3d. Such claims shall be submitted to this committee and approved in 

 duplicate; one copy to remain with the secretary as his warrant for the 

 payment of the same, and the other to be transmitted by him to the pres- 

 ident, along with his order upon the treasurer, as his warrant for counter- 

 signing the same. 



4th. It shall be the duty of the business committee, upon application 

 of the secretary, during the recess of the executive board, to advise with 

 him as to the expediency of making any contemplated but questionable 

 expenditure for which occasion may arise during such recess. 



VIII. — STANDING COMMITTEES. 



1st. There shall be a standing committee on revision of the catalogue, 

 to be composed of one member from each of the five districts into which 

 the state is, for this purpose, divided, with one member chosen from the 

 state at large, who shall be the chairman of the committee. 



2d. Each member of said committee (except the chairman) is empowered 

 and expected to choose a sub-committee for his district, of which he shall 

 be chairman. 



3d. It shall be the duty of each sub-committee to collect and report, 

 each year, to the general chairman, such facts respecting fruit culture in 

 the district as shall promise to be of value in the revision of the catalogue. 



4th. There shall be a standing committee on new fruits, to consist of a 

 chairman, with as many associates as such chairman shall find it desirable 

 to appoint. 



5th. Such other standing committees may from time to time be 

 appointed by the executive board as, in its discretion, it shall deem desira- 

 ble or necessary. 



6th. All standing committees are expected to report at the annual meet- 

 ing in December, any information of value to the society or its members 



