MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



Organized January j, i8jQ, at Jefferson City. 



INCORPORATION AND REORGANIZATION OF THE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY BY AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1893. 



The following law was passed by the Legislature incorporating 

 the State Horticultural Society The Executive Committee met soon 

 after 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 

 Avas adopted as part of the constitution of the society. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



Under the new constitution the law requires the payment of $1 per 

 year for membership fee. Life membership, $10. 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri Horticultural Society is hereby instituted and created a body coi'porate, 

 to be named and styled as above, and shall 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 Horticultural Society shall be composed of such persons as take an in- 

 terest in the advancement of Horticulture in this State, who shall apply for membership 

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

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

 now known 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 be conducted by an Executive Board, to be composed 

 of the President, Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who 

 shall be elected by ballot at an annual meeting of the Society. The Governor of the 

 State shall be ex-officio a member of the Board — all other 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 Auditor, signed by the President and Secretary and attested with the seal ; 

 and the treasurer shall annually publish a detailed statement of the expenditures of the 

 Board, covering all moneys received by it. The Public Printer shall annually, under the 

 direction of the Board, print such number of the reports of the proceedings of the 

 Board, Society and auxiliary societies as may, in the judgment of the State 

 Printing Commission, be justified by the appropriation made for that purpose by 

 the General Assembly, such annual report not to contain more than 400 pages. The Sec- 

 retary of the Society shall receive a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum as full com- 

 pensation for his services ; all other officers shall serve without compensation, except that 

 they may receive their actual expenses in attending meetings of the Board. 



