THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



three Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer and a Secretary. Their duties shall 

 be those usually appertaining to these offices. The officers shall be elected 

 by the Board of Directors from among their number each year at the meet- 

 ing of the Board immediately following the annual meeting of members. 

 They shall assume office as soon as elected and shall hold office for one 

 year or until the election of their successors. The Board of Directors 

 shall annually elect from their number a Chairman, who shall preside at 

 all meetings of the Council. The Secretary of the Society shall also be 

 the Secretary of the Council. The Treasurer shall give such bond as 

 may be approved by the Council. Any vacancies that may occur among 

 the officers from any cause whatever (other than by expiration of term of 

 service as above provided) may be filled by the Council at any regular or 

 special meeting. 



Article V. Committees. — The committees of the Council shall include: 

 (i) A Botanical Committee; (2) a Floral Committee; (3) a Fruit Com- 

 mittee; (4) a Vegetable Committee; (5) a Forestry Committee; (6) a 

 Membership Committee; (7) a Finance Committee. 



Article VI. Members. — The Society shall consist of Annual Members, 

 Associate Members, Corresponding Members, Honorary Members, Pa- 

 trons, Sustaining Members and Life Members. The members shall be 

 such as are elected 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 themselves by important original investigations, and shall be 

 elected in number to ten. Any person contributing two hundred and fifty 

 dollars ($250) or more at any one time to the funds of the Society shall 

 be designated a Patron. Any member contributing twenty-five dollars 

 ($25) 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 VH. Members. — Each annual member, upon his election, and 

 annually thereafter, 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 pre- 

 scribed for members. They shall have all the rights and privileges of 

 active members except voting and holding office, and may become active 

 members at any time subsequent to their election by paying the dues pre- 

 scribed. The annual dues for associate members shall be one dollar. 



Article VHI. — All fees received from patrons and life members shall 

 constitute a permanent fund, only the interest of which may be expended ; 

 said fund to be held by trustees to be duly appointed in accordance with 

 the laws of the State of New York. 



Article IX. Meetings. — Regular meetings of the Society, accompanied 

 when practicable by exhibitions, shall be held at places and on dates deter- 



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