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VI. — THE EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



1st. The execiitlvo board shall enact all rules and regulations for the manage- 

 ment of the affairs of the society, determine the salaries of its officers, and assume 

 the control and management of its exhibitions. 



2d. It shall have power to displace any officer of the society for neglect of duty 

 or abuse of position, and to fill all vacancies by appointment, to continue till the 

 next annual election. 



3d. The board shall hold four regular sessions during the year, to occur at the 

 times and places for the regular meetings of the society. 



4th. Other meetings may be called by the secretary under the advice or direc- 

 tion of the president, or of a majority of its members, at such times and places as 

 may be deemed most convenient; but in all such cases each member must be 

 notified of the time, pla<;-e, and object of such meeting. 



5th. It shall be the duty of the board to carefully guard the general interests 

 of the society, to watch over its finances, and to pi'ovide for its necessities as they 

 shall arise. 



6th. All important measures shall be submitted to this board, but they may by 

 the board be resubmitted to the society for recommendations. 



7th. The board shall, at the annual meeting, submit through the secretary, in 

 connection with the reports of officers, such further report upon the condition, 

 interests, and prospects of the society as it shall judge necessary or expedient. 



8th. Two members of the executive board are to be elected each year, to hold 

 the office for three years, but if any such member shall absent himself from two or 

 more consecutive meetings of the society and of the board, without reason satis- 

 factory to the board, the said board may, in its discretion, consider the office vacant, 

 and proceed to fill such vacancy by appointment, to continue to the next annual 

 election. 



VII. — THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE. 



1st. It sliall bo the duty of the executive board, annually, upon entering upon the 

 duties of the new year, to appoint from their own number three members who shall 

 constitute a business committee for the year. 



2d. All accounts or claims against the society, when presented to the secretary 

 for payment, shall, before payment, receive the sanction and indorsement of the 

 business committee. 



3d. Such claims shall be submitted to this committee and approved in duplicate, 

 one copy to remain with the secretary as his warrant for the payment of the same, 

 and the other to be transmitted by him to the president, along with his order upon 

 the treasurer, as his warrant for countersigning the same. 



4th. It shall be the duty of the business committee, upon application of the secre- 

 tary, darmg the recess of the executive board, to advise with him as to the expedi- 

 ency of mukmg anj'^ contemplated but questionable expenditure for which occasion 

 m.ay arise during soch recess. 



VIII.— STANDING COMMITTEES. 



1st. There shall be a standing committee on revision of the catalogue, to be 

 composed of one member from each of the five districts into which the state is, 

 for this purpose divided, with one member chosen from the state at large, who shall 

 be the chairman of the committee. 



2d. Each member of said committee (except the chairman) is ompowered and 

 expected to choose a sub-committee for his district, of which he shall be chair- 

 man. 



3d. It shall be the duty of each sub-committee to collect and report, each year, 

 to the general chairman, such facts respecting fruit culture in the district as shall 

 promise to be of value in the revision of the catalogue. 



4th. There shall be a standing committee on new fruits, to consist of a chairman, 

 with as many associates as such chairman shall find it desirable to appoint. 



r)th. Such other standing committees may from time lo time be jppoi it^d by the 

 executive board as, in its discretion, it shall deem desirable or necessary. 



