X STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE Y. — TERMS OF OFFICE. 



The officers specified in Article II. shall hold their offices uutil the thirty- 

 first day of December of the year for which they were elected, aad thereafter 

 until their successors shall have been elected, and shall have signified to 

 the Secretary their acceptance : Provided, That the terms of office of the six 

 members of the Executive Board shall be so arranged that but two regular 

 vacancies shall occur in each year. 



ARTICLE YI. — 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 pro- 

 vided by the by-laws. Any person may become a life-member by the pay- 

 ment at any one time of the sum of ten dollars into the treasury of the 

 society. 



ARTICLE Yll. — AMOUNT OR LIMIT OF PROPERTY. 



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

 twenty thousand dollars. 



ARTICLE Yin.— BY-LAWS. 



By-laws for the government of the society shall be framed, ani when need- 

 ful, 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. 



