FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 173 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 



ARTICLE I. — NAME, TEKRITORY AND OBJECTS. 



The name of the society shall be the Michigan State Horticultural Society, and 

 its territory shall be the State of Michigan. Its objects shall be the development 

 of an adequate appreciation of the peculiar adaptation of the soils and climate of 

 the State to the pursuit of horticulture in all its branches; and the collection and 

 dissemination of information bearing upon the theory and practice of the same, 

 as well as upon the arts and sciences directly or indirectly associated therewith, 

 or calculated to elevate or improve the practice thereof. 



ARTICLE II. OFFICERS AND MODE OF ELECTION. 



The officers of the society shall be a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, to- 

 gether with an executive board of six members, aside from the president, secretary 

 and treasurer, who shall be ex-officio members of the said board. Any one who has 

 held the office of president or member of the executive board for two consecutive 

 terms or parts of terms shall be ineligible to re-election until after the expiration 

 of one full term. 



Said board shall designate one of its members as vice president. The officers 

 shall be elected by ballot. 



The society may, at its discretion, elect an honorary president, whose term of 

 office shall be for life, said office to be an honorary one, without duties, and estab- 

 lished to express the sense of obligations which the society may feel to one of its 

 members who may unselfishly give a lifetime of earnest effort to promote its inter- 

 ests, to further the horticultural interest of this State. 



ARTICLE III. — A QUORUM. 



Four members of the executive board shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 

 tion of business at any meeting of said board: Provided, That each of the mem- 

 bers thereof shall have been notified, in the usual manner, of the time, place, and 

 object of such meeting. 



ARTICLE IV. — ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The annual meeting of the society, for the election of officers specified in Article 

 II, shall occur upon the first Wednesday of December in each year. 



ARTICLE v. — TERMS OF OFFICE. 



The officers specified in Article II shall hold their offices until the thirty-first day 

 of December of the year for which they were elected, and thereafter until their 

 successors shall have been elected, and shall have signified to the secretary their 

 acceptance: Provided, That the terms of office of the six members of the executive 

 board shall be so arranged that but two regular vacancies shall occur in each year. 



ARTICLE VI. — ANNUAL AND LIFE MEMBERS. 



Any person may become a member of the society for one year by paying to the 

 treasurer the sum of one dollar; and the yearly term of all annual memberships 

 shall expire on the thirty-first" day of December of the year for which they were 

 taken. Any person may become a life member by the payment at any one time 

 of the sum of five dollars into the treasury of the society. 



