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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, but be regarded as continuous, except as may 

 be provided by the by-laws. Any person may become a life-member by 

 the payment at any one time of the sum of ten dollars into the treasury of 

 the society. 



ARTICLE YII. — AMOUNT OR LIMIT OF PROPERTY. 



The society may hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceed- 

 ing twenty thousand dollars. 



ARTICLE VIII. — BY-LAWS. 



By-laws for the government of the society shall be framed, and when 

 needful, amended by the executive board; but changes therefor may be at 

 any time proposed by the society in general meeting. 



ARTICLE IX. — AMENDMENTS. 



This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the society 

 by a vote, by ballot, of two thirds of all the members present and voting: 

 Provided, That notice of such proposed amendment, specifying its pur- 

 port, shall have been given at the last previous regular meeting. 



BY-LAWS OF THE MICHIGAN STATE HOKTICULTUKAL 



SOCIETY. 



I. — THE PRESIDENT. 



1st. The president shall be the executive officer of the society, and of 

 the executive board; and it shall be his duty to see that the rules and 

 regulations of the society, and of the executive board, are duly enforced 

 and obeyed. 



2d. He may, in his discretion, and in the lack of needful rules, during 

 the recesses of the society and of the board, prescribe rules for the man- 

 agement of the interests or business of the society, such rules to continue 



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