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ARTICLE VI. — ANNUAL AND LIFE MEMBERS. 



Any person may become a member of the society for one year by paying to the 

 treasurer the sum of one dollar; and the yearly term of all annual memberships 

 shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of the year for which they were 

 taken, but be regarded as continuous, except as may be provided by the by-laws. 

 Any person may become a life member by the payment at any one time of the sum 

 of ten dollars into the treasury of the society. 



ARTICLE VII. — AMOUNT OR LIMIT OF PROPERTY. 



The society may hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding twenty, 

 thousand dollars. 



ARTICLE VIII. — BY-LAWS. 



By-laws for the government of the society shall be framed, and when needful, 

 amended by the executive board; but changes thereof may be at any time proposed 

 by the society in general meeting. 



ARTICLE IX. — AMENDMENTS. 



This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting of the society by a 

 vote, by ballot, of two-thirds of all the members present and voting: Provided, 

 That notice of such proposed amendment, specifying its purport, shall have been 

 given at the last previous regular meeting. 



BY-LAWS OP THE MICHIGAN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. — THE PRESIDENT. 



1st. The president shall be the executive officer of the society, and of the execu- 

 tive board; and it shall be his duty to see that the rules and regulations of the 

 society, and of the executive board, are duly enforced and obeyed. 



2d. He may, in his discretion, and in the lack of needful rules, during the recesses 

 of the society and of the board, prescribe rules for the management of the interests 

 or business of the society, such rules to continue in force till the next session of 

 the executive board, and until, by its action, they shall have become no longer 

 necessary. 



3d. He shall act in conjunction with the secretary in the preparation of pro- 

 grammes or orders of business, for the sessions of the society; and in the devising 

 of plans and processes for the maintenance of its interests. 



4th. He shall have the best interests of the society at heart, and shall lead in 

 forwarding any and all enterprises calculated to add to its permanency or to 

 increase its usefulness, and establish it more firmly in the public confidence. 



II. —VICE-PRESIDENT. 



Tlie vice-president shall perform the duties of the president in case of the absence 

 or inability of that officer; and may be called upon by the president to assume the 

 duties of the chair at any meeting of the society or executive board. 



