BY-LAWS. 397' 



IX. LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. 



1st. All uione.y.s comiug into the ti'easury of the society in payment for life mem- 

 berships shall constitute a perpetual fund, to be knowu as tlie life membership 

 fund. 



2d. The principal of this fund shall be invested by the treasurer under the advice 

 and direction of the executive board. 



3d. All interest accruing upon any portion of said fund shall constitute and 

 become part of the fund of the society devoted to the payment of its ordinary 

 expenses. 



X. MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



1st. The society shall hold its first regular meeting for the year dunng the month 

 of January or Februai-y for the inauguration of the officers chosen at the annual 

 meeting held the previous December, as provided in article IV of the constitution, 

 and also to arrange its plan of operations for the year. 



2d. Its second regular meeting shall be held in the month of June at sucn date 

 as shall best accommodate an exhibit of the early summer fruits. 



3d. Its third regular meeting shall be at its annual exhibit of autumn and winter 

 fruits, in the month of September or October. 



4th. Its fourth regular meeting shall occur in connection with its annual election 

 of officers, in December, as provided in article IV of the constitution. 



5th- The times and places for the occurrence of these regular meetings (except- 

 ing only the time of the annual meeting), sliall be determined by the executive 

 board. 



6th. Other meetings may be called by the secretary, under the advice or direc- 

 tion of the members of the executive board, at times and places by them deemed 

 expedient. 



7th. In case of the calling of a special meeting for the election of officers of the 

 society, in consequence of any failure to elect at the annual meeting, as provided 

 in section IV of the constitution, all persons entitled as members to vote at such 

 annual meeting shall be considered as retaining such membership for svich purpose 

 until such election, and until such otficers so elected shall have been inducted into 

 office. 



XI. RFLES FOE DISCUSSIONS, ETC. 



1st. The deliberations and discussions of tlie society shall be conducted in 

 accordance with ordinary parliamentary usages. 



XII. AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 



1st. The society shall, in all reasonable and proper ways, encourage the forma- 

 tion of local horticultural or pomological societies auxiliary to this society in all 

 such counties or other municipalities of this state as shall afford a reasonable pros- 

 pect that they will be able to effectually maintain the same. 



2d. It shall be the policy of this society in supervising the organization of such 

 local societies to secure an identity of constitutional provisions throughout, and in 

 so doing to insure harmony among them; but at the same time it will not discourage 

 the including by them of special or local objects in cases in whicli such shall be 

 found desirable, so long as the introduction of the requisite provisions therefor 

 into the constitution and by-laws of the auxiliary society shall not be deemed 

 lilsely to interfere with the harmonious workings of the whole. 



3d. Any person who shall become a member of an auxiliary society for one 

 year, and comply with its regulation as to fee, shall thereby become an auxil- 

 iary member of this society also for the same time, and entitled to all the rights 

 and benefits of full membership, except that he or she shall not have the right to 

 vote at the annual election of officers or upon questions of the expenditure of 

 money. 



