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Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Organized January 5, 1859, at Jefferson City. 

 Incorporated 1893, 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 

 I 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. 



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



t 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 cor- 

 I 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 com- 

 Q> mon seal and alter the same at pleasure. 



V^ The Missouri Horticultural Society shall be composed of such persons as take an 



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

 S- bership and pay into the Society treasury the sum of one dollar per year, or ten dol- 

 V lars 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 an- 

 -i -* nual 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- 

 CPJPresident, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected by ballot at an annual 

 ^^jneeting 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 

 ^^y means of requisitions to be made by order of the Board on the State Auditor, 

 — Jigned by the President and Secretary and attested with the seal ; and the Treasurer 



