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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 bo 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, place, 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 provide for its necessities as they 

 shall arise. 



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

 the board be re-submitted 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, inter- 

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



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

 the office for three years, but if any 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 shall be 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 coimtersigning the same. 



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

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

 ency of malving any contemplated but questionable e.x;penditure for which occasion 

 may arise during such recess. 



VIII. — STANDING COMMITTEE. 



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 thi? cl.aii'mau of the committee, 



2d. Eacli momber of said committee (except the chairman) is empowered 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 fimit 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. 



5th. Such other standing committees may from time to time be appointed by the 

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



6th. All standing committees are expected to report at the annual meeting in 

 December, any information of value to the society or its members that may have 

 come to their knowledge during the year, as well as any scientific theories, deduc- 

 tions, or facts that, in their opinion, may be useful in advancing the objects for 

 which the society is laboring. 



IX. — LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. 



1st. All moneys coming into the treasury of the society in payment for life mem- 

 berships shall constitute a perpetual fund, to be known as the life membership 

 fund. 



