Missouri State Horticultural Society 



Organized January 5, 1859, at Jefferson City. 

 Incorporated 1893, ^^ Jefferson City. 



IKCORrOKATION AND REORGANIZATION OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY BY 

 AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1893. 



The following- law was passed by the Legislature incorporating the 

 State Horticultural Society. The Executive Committee met soon after 

 the passag-e of this act and accepted its provisions, and at the semi-annual 

 meeting of the Society at Columbia, June 6, 7, 8, 1893, the act was 

 adopted as part of the constitution of the Society. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



Under the new constitution the law requires the payment of $1 per 

 year for membership fee. Life membership, $10. 



^ L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



The Missouri Horticultural Society is hereby instituted and created a body corporate, 

 to be named and styled as above, and shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be 

 sued, complain and defend in all courts, and to make and use a common seal and alter the 

 same at pleasure. 



The Missouri Horticultural Society shall be composed of such persons as take an 

 interest in the advancement of Horticulture in this State, who shall apply for mem- 

 bership and pay into the Society treasury the sum of one dollar per year, or ten 

 dollars for a life membership, the basis for organization to be the Missouri Horti- 

 cultural Society, as now known and existing, and whose expenses have been borne 

 and annual reports paid for by appropriations from the State treasury. The busi- 

 ness of the Society, so far as it relates to transactions with the State, shall be 

 conducted by an Executive Board, to be composed of the President, Vice-President, 

 Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected by ballot at an 

 annual meeting of the Society. The Governor of tiie State shall be ex-officio a mem- 

 ber of the Board — all other business of the Society to be conducted as its by-laws 

 may direct. All appropriations made by the State for the aid of the Society shall 

 bo expended by means of requisitions to be made by order of the Board on the State 

 Auditor, i-igned by the President and Secretary and attested with the seal : and the 



