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2d. The principal of this fund shall be invested l).v the treasurer under, the advice 

 and direction of the executive board. 



3d. All interest accruin«- upon any jtortion of said fund sliall constitute and 

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

 expenses. 



X.— MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETIES. 



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

 of January or February 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- such date 

 as sliall 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 thw of the annual meeting), shall be determined by the executive 

 board. 



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

 tion of tlie 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 such purpose 

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

 office. 



XI.— RULES FOR DISCUSSIONS. ETC. 



1st. The deliberations and discussions of the society shall be conducted in accord- 

 ance 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 the 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 which 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 

 liliely to interfere with the liarmonious workings of the whole. 



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

 year, and "comply with its regulations as to fee, shall thereby Ijecome an auxil- 

 any 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. 



4th. On receipt by the secretary, from the secretary of such auxiliary society, 

 of a list of officers and members of that society, he shall file the same; and upon 

 issuance of the Annual Report shall supply such auxiliary society with a sufficient 

 number of volumes to provide one for each of its members. He shall also transmit 

 tlie names of such officers and members, with their postoffice addresses, to the 

 secretary of any and all experiment stations and societies willing to supply bulletins 

 and reports and to the national department of agi-icultiire for the same purpose: 

 and the secretary shall issue to such auxiliai-y society a certificate of membership 

 for the year. 



