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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 president, along with his order upon the treasurer, 

 as his warrant for countersigning 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. 



Ist. 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 ex- 

 pected 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 he 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 desirable or necessary. 



6th. All standing committees are expected to report at the annual meeting in Decem- 

 ber any information of value to the society or its members that may have come to their 

 knowledge during the year as well as any scientific theories, deductions, or facts that, 

 in their opinion, may be useful in advancing the objects for which the society is laboring. 



IX. LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. 



1st. All moneys coming into the treasury of the society in payment for life member- 

 ships shall constitute a perpetual fund, to be known as the life membership fund. 



2d. The principal of this fund shall be invested by the treasurer under the advice 

 and direction of the executive board. 



3d. All interest accruing upon any portion of said fund shall constitute and become 

 a part of the fund of the society devoted to the payment of its ordinary expenses. 



X.— MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



1st. The society shall hold its first regular meeting for the year during the month 

 of January or February for the inauguration of the officers chosen at the annual meeting 

 held the previous December, as provided in Article IV of the constitution and also to 

 arrange its plan of operation for the year. 



2d. Its second regular meeting shall be held in the month of June at such date as shall 

 best accommodate an exhibit of the early summer fruits. 



3d. Its third regular meeting shall be at its annual e.xhibit of autumn and winter 

 fruits, in the month of September or October. 



4th. Its fourth regular meeting shall occur in connection with its armual election of 

 officers, in December, as provided in Article IV of the constitution. 



5th. The times and places for the occurrence of these regular meetings (excepting 

 only the time of the annual meeting), shall be detennined by the executive board. 



6th. Other meetings may be called by the secretary, under the advice or direction 

 of the members of the executive board, at times and places by them deemed expedient. 



7th. In case of the calling of a special meeting for the election of officers of the society, 

 in conseciuence of any failure to elect at the annual meeting, as provided in section IV 

 of the constitution, all persons entitled as members to vote at such annual meeting shall 

 be considered as retaining such membership for such purpose until such election, and until 

 such officers so elected shall have been inducted into office. 



