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Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Organized January 5, 1859, at Jefferson City. 

 Incorporated 1893, at Jefferson City. 



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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 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. Life membership, $10. 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



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"^ ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



' The Missouri Horticultural Society is hereby instituted and created a body cor- 



_^ 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- 

 mon 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 mem- 

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

 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- 

 ■^ -^ 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- 

 --y-^President, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected by ballot at an annual 

 .,-j-meeting of the Society. The Governor of the State shall be ex-officio a member of 

 Q-jthe 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 requisition to be made by ofder of the Board on the State Auditor, 



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