6 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



INCORPORATION AND REORGANIZATION 



Of the Horticultural 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 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 was 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. 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 membership 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 corporate, to be named and styled as above, and shall have perpetual suc- 

 ceasion, power to sue and be sued, coDoplain and defend in all courts, and to make 

 and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. 



The Missouri State Horticultural Society ghallbe composed of such persons as 

 take an interest 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 Horicultural Society, as now known and existing, and whofe expenses have 

 been borne and annual reports paid for by appropriations from the State treasury. 

 The business of the Society, so far it relates to transactions with the State, shall 

 be conducted by an executive board, to be composed of the President, Vice-Presi- 

 dent, 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 rtquisitionsto be made by orderof 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 expen- 

 ditures of the Board, covering all moneys received by it. The Public Printer shall 

 annually, under the direction of the Board, print such number of reports of the 

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



