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LAWS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE. 



Session Laws of 1871, page 19S. 



AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of societies for the 

 promotion of pomology, horticulture, and the kindred 

 sciences and arts, in the State of Michigan. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That 

 any five or more persons, and their successors, that may here- 

 after associate together for the purpose of promoting the 

 interests of pomology, horticulture, agriculture, and kindred 

 sciences and arts, may become a body corporate by complying 

 with the requirements of this act. 



Sec. 2. The persons intending to become a body corporate 

 for the above named purpose, shall publish a notice of their 

 intention to meet for organization, three successive weeks, in 

 the newspaper publisheci next nearest to the place where such 

 meeting is to be held, said notice to state the object of the 

 meeting, and when and where it will be held, and to be signed 

 by at least three of the persons interested in establishing such 

 organization, said meeting to be open to the public. 



Sec. 3. The articles of association adopted at the meeting 

 provided for in the preceding section shall specify : First, the 

 names, offices, and objects of association ; second, the limit of 

 property ; third, the limit of subscription of members ; fourth, 

 the town, city, village, county, district, or extent of the terri- 

 tory in which the operation of the society may be carried on, 

 or to which they are limited. 



Sec. 4. The articles of association, duly acknowledged by 

 each stockholder, together with a certificate signed by the 

 secretary, stating the amount of subscription paid in, must be 

 registered in the oflSce where the association is located, in a 



