INCORPORATION AND REORGANIZATION 



Of the Horticulural Society by an act of the General Assembly in 1893. 



The following law was passed by the last Legislature incorporat- 

 ing the State Horticultural Society. The Executive Committee met 

 soon affer the passage of this act and accepted its provisions, and at 

 the semi annual meeting of the Society at Columbia, June 6-7-8, 1893, 

 the act was adopted as part of the constitution of the Society. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



UndtT the new constitution the law requires the payment of $1 

 per year for membership fee. We hope that we shall have a good long 

 list of members under our new plan for business. The plan under which 

 we have been working, of giving each local society the privilege of 

 paying their fee into their local society, thus making them a member of 

 the State Society, cannot now avail. Each person must become a mem- 

 ber of the State Society and keep up his memoership each year. 



We should like to see a good number of life members also; it is 

 very desirable. L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri State Horticultural Society is hereby Instituted and created a body cor- 

 porate, to be named and styled as above, and sliall have perpetual succession, power to 

 sue and be sued, complain and defend In all courts, and to make and use a common seal and 

 alter the same at pleasure. 



The Missouri State Horticultural Society shall be composed of such persons as take an 

 Interest in the advancement of iiortlculture In this State, wlio shall apply for membership 

 and pay into the Society treasuiy the sum of one dollar per year, or ten dollais for a life 

 inenibership, the basis for organization to be the Missouri State Horticultural Society, as 

 now V.nown and existing, and whose expenses have been borne and annual reports paid for 

 by appropriations from the State treasury. The business of the Society, so far as It relates 

 to transactions with the State, shall Ije conducted by an executive board, to be composed 

 of the President, \'lce-Presldent, Second \'Ice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, wlio shall 

 be elected by ballot at an annual meeting of the Society; the Governor of the State shall be 

 ■fx officio a meniljer of the Board— all otiier business of the Society to be conducted as its 

 by-laws may direct. All appropriations made by the State for the aid of the Society shall 

 be expended by means of requisitions to be made by order of the Board on the State 

 .\udltor, signed by the President and Secretary and attested with the seal; and the Treas- 

 urer shall annually puljlish a detailed statement of the expenditures of the Board, covering 

 all moneys received by It. Tlie Public I'rlnter shall annually, under tlie direction of the 

 Board, print such numljer of tlie reports of tlie proceedings of the Board, Society and 

 auxiliary societies as may. In the .judgment of the State Printing Commission, he justified 

 by the appropriation made for that purpose by the General Assembly, such annual report 

 not to contain more than four liundred pages. The Secretary of the Society shall receive a 

 salary of eight hundred dollars per annum as full compensation for his services; all other 

 officers shall serve without compensation, except that they may receive their actual ex- 

 penses in attending meetings of the Hoard. 



