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Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Organised January 5, 1859, at Jefferson City. 

 Jncorporated 1893, at Jefferson City. 



INCOKPORATION AND REORGANIZATION OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY BY 

 AN ACT OP 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 was 

 adopted as part of the constitution of the society. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



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

 year for membership fee. Life membership, $ig. 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary- 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri Horticultural Society is hereby instituted and created a body corporate, 

 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 

 interest in the advancement of Horticulture in this State, who shall apply for member- 

 ship and pay into the society treasury the sum of one dollar per year, or ten dolars for 

 a life membership, the basis for organization to be the Missouri Horticultural Society, 

 as now known and existing, and whose expenses have been borne and annual reports paid 



tfor by appropriations from the State treasury. The business of the Society, so far as it 



y 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 Treas- 



"^ urer, who shall be elected by ballot at an annual meeting of the Society. The Governor 



of the State shall be ex-of[icio a member of the Board— all other business of the Society 

 2^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 tlie 

 * — 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 

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



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



