THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



under that designation and conform to the regulations of the Society. 

 Corresponding, Associate and Honorary Members may hold seats in the 

 meetings of the Society and make suggestions for the promotion of its 

 objects. They shall not be eligible to office nor entitled to vote. Honorary 

 Members may be chosen from horticulturists who have distinguished them- 

 selves by important original investigations, and shall be elected in number 

 to ten. Any person contributing two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars or 

 more at any one time to the funds of the Society shall be designated a 

 Patron. Any member contributing twenty-five ($25) dollars a year to the 

 Society shall become a Sustaining Member, and if such membership be 

 continued for ten successive years, such Sustaining Member shall become 

 a Patron of the Society." 



Article VII of the Constitution to be amended to read as 

 follows : 



" Members. — Each annual member, upon his election, and annually there- 

 after, shall pay to the treasurer the sum of five dollars. Members may 

 become life members by the payment of fifty dollars at any one time. 

 Associate members shall be elected in the manner prescribed for members. 

 They shall have all the rights and privileges of active members except vot- 

 ing and holding office, and may become active members at any time sub- 

 sequent to their election by paying the dues prescribed. The annual dues 

 for associate members shall be one dollar." 



Article IX of the Constitution to be amended so as to include 

 the word " Meetings " as a title. 



Article X of the Constitution to be amended to read as follows : 



" Annual Meeting. Quorum. — The annual meeting of the Society shall 

 be held on the second Saturday in May in each year. A quorum of the 

 Society for the transaction of business at any meeting shall consist of nine 

 members." 



Article XI of the Constitution to be amended to read as 

 follows : 



"Amendments. — Amendments to the Constitution may be made by a 

 majority vote of the annual meeting of the Society on the recommendation 

 ,of a two-thirds vote of the Directors present at any stated meeting not less 

 than fifteen (15) days' notice of such stated meeting of the Council and 

 of the proposed amendments having been given to each Director." 



It is also proposed at the same meeting of the Council to rec- 

 ommend to the members of the Society that at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Society the date of the annual meeting be changed 

 from the second Wednesday in May (as now fixed by the Certifi- 

 cate of Incorporation) to the second Saturday in May (as str.ted 



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