BY-LAWS. XV 



XI. — RULES FOR DISCUSSIOKS, ETC. 



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

 accordance with ordinary parliamentary usages. 



XII. — AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 



1st. The society shall in all reasonable and proper ways encourage the 

 formaticJn of local horticultural or pomological societies auxiliary to this 

 society in all such counties or other municipalities of this State as shall 

 afford a reasonable prospect that they will be able, effectively, to maintain 

 the same. 



2d. It shall be the policy of this society in supervising the organization of 

 such local auxiliaries 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 intro- 

 duction of the requisite provisions therefor into the constitution and by-laws 

 of the auxiliary society shall not be deemed likely to interfere with the harmo- 

 nious workings of the whole. 



3d. Any person may become a full member of an auxiliary society, for one 

 year, by paying into its treasury the sum of one dollar; and a compliance 

 with the provisions of clause fifth of these by-laws shall constitute him also 

 a member of this society, for the same term. 



•ith. The wife, and the resident, single or unmarried daughters of any full 

 member, may also become members of such auxiliary society upon the pay- 

 ment of fifty cents each : Provided, That in such case such entire family 

 shall become entitled to a single copy, only, of the current volume of the 

 transactions of this S(jciety. 



5th. On receipt of the names of snch members, with the required fees, the 

 Secretary shall immediately transmit their names and postoffice addresses, 

 together with half the membership fee of each, to the Secretary of this so- 

 ciety, who shall record the same and pay the money into the treasury for the 

 benefit of the general fund. 



6th. It shall be the duty of the Secretary, on receipt of such remittance, 

 with list of members, to supply such auxiliary society with a certificate of 

 membership in this society for one year, together with a copy of the current 

 volume of transactions for each full member so remitted for. 



7th. The proceedings of such auxiliary societies shall, at the close of the 

 year, be forwarded, in succinct form, to the Secretary of this society, to be 

 by him incorporated into the annual volume of transactions, accompanied by 

 a list of its members for the year. 



8th. The auxiliary societies shall, as far as practicable, be made the 

 medium for the distribution of the annual volumes of the transactions of the 

 society; the nuclei for its meetings, and the means of creating interest there- 

 in, as well as the means of collecting such facts or other information or ma- 

 terial as shall, from time to time, become needful or desirable in the con- 

 ductiug of its various operations. 



