TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING OF THE TRANS- 

 ACTIONS OF THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND 

 THE DISTRIBUTION THEREOF. 



Be it enacted by the Ler/islatnre of the State of 3Irnnesota : 



SECTION ONE. 



The object of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, an incorporation 

 duly incorporated under the general laws of this State, being to improve the 

 condition of horticulture, rural adornment and landscape gardening, it shall 

 be allowed for these purposes to take, hold and convey real and personal 

 property; the former not exceeding in value five thousand dollars. 



SECTION TWO. 



There shall be printed two thousand copies of the reports of the State 

 Horticultural Society, from the organization of the society until A. D. one 

 thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, including its transactions at its 

 annual meeting held on the fourteenth day of January A. D. one thousand 

 eight hundred and seventy-three, provided, the number of printed pages of 

 said volume shall not exceed two hundred; the Secretary of State shall dis- 

 tribute the same as follows, to-wit : two hundred copies in making the custo- 

 mary exchanges and in supplying one copy to every public library and to the 

 editor of every periodical in this State, two copies to each member of the 

 Legislature and the officers thereof; and to each of the State offlcers ; one 

 hundred copies to the State Horticultural Society ; fifty copies to the State 

 Agricultural Society ; fifty copies to each County Horticultural Society who 

 shall report its organization, with officers elect, and number of its members 

 with an abstract of its proceedings for publication in said volume, to the 

 State Horticultural Society ; fifteen copies to each County Agricultural Society 

 who shall report annually to the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society 

 as provided by statute ; and all the remaining copies to the State Horticultural 

 Society. 



SECTION THREE. 



Hereafter, or until the Legislature shall otherwise order, the report of the 

 State Horticultural Society together with the abstract of the reports of other 

 Horticultural Associations of this State^ so far as the same shall be pub- 

 lished, shall be annually printed, published and distributed, in like manner 

 and number as provided in section two of this act. Provided, that such 

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