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Missouri State Horticultural Societ}-, Organized January 5, 



1859, at Jefferson City. 



TNCOKPORA.TION AND RE0KGAN1ZA.TI0N OF THE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY BY AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1893. 



The following law was passed by the last Legislature incorporat- 

 ing 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. We hope that we shall have a good 

 long list of members under our plan for business. The plan under 

 which we have been working, of giving each local society the privilege 

 of paying their fee into their local society, thus making them a mem- 

 ber of the State Society, cannot now avail. Each person must become 

 a, member of the State Society and keep up his membership each year. 



We should like to see a good number of life members also. Life 

 membership, $10. L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri State 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 common seal 

 and alter the same at pleasure. 



The Missouri State Horticultural Society shall be composed ot 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 dollars for a 

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

 as now known and existing, and wliose expenses have been borne and annual 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-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 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 Soctety shall be expended by means of requisitions to be made by order of the 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 of the Board, 



