150 HISTORY OP HORTICULTURE IN MINNESOTA. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 



President Dart took the Chair, and called the attention of the meeting to 

 the omission of an essaj^ by Judge Baker — passed over. 



The Committee on Constitution and By-Laws presented the following rejjorl, 

 which was accepted through Mr. Elliot, its Chairman : 



CONSTITUTION OF THE MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, ADOPTED 

 AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY, 15, 1873. 



Article 1. This Society shall be known as the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 



Art. 2. The object of the Society shall be to collect, condense, and collate information 

 relative to all varieties of fruit, and dispense the same among the people. Any person inter, 

 ested maj" become a member by forwarding to the Treasurer, or Secretary, the annual fee of 

 one dollar. 



Art. 3. Its Officers shall consist of a President, one Vice-President from each Congress- 

 ional District, a Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee of three. 



Art. 4. The President shall preside at, and conduct all meetings of the Society, and deliver 

 an annual address, and in his absence the Vice-Presidents, in their order, shall perform the 

 same duties. 



Art. 5. The Secretary shall record all the doings of the Society, collate and prepare 

 all communications, etc., for the public press, and pay over all money received from mem- 

 bers, or otherwise, to the Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive and answer all com- 

 munications addressed to the Society; establish and maintain correspondence with all Local, 

 County, District, and State Horticultural Societies, and secure, by exchange, their transac- 

 tions, as far as possible; to aid the President as an executive officer, in the dispatch of busi- 

 ness relating to meetings of the Society, and notices of Horticultural and similar meetings of 

 general interest, and report to the annual meeting of the Society an abstract of the matter 

 that has come into his possession, which, with its approval, shall become part of its transac- 

 tions for the current year. 



Art. 6. The Treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the Society, and pay out the 

 same only on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President. 



Art. 7. Tne officers shall be elected separately und annually, by a ballot vote, and hold 

 their office until tlieir successors are elected. 



Art. 8. Every member shall be entitled to two copies of the transactions of the Society, 

 as often as the same shall be published. 



Art. 9. The President, Secretary, and Executive Committee may call a meeting of the 

 Society at any time and place they may consider advisable, by a notice of thirty days in the 

 public press. 



Art. 10. The President, at each annual meeting of the Society, shall appoint a General 

 Fruit Committee, consisting of one member from each Senatorial District in the State, and 

 it shall be the duty of each member to report upon the fruit crop in his respective district, 

 and it shall be the duty of said committee to report annually a limited list of fruits best 

 adapted to general cultivation in the State at large. 



Art. 11. The Society shall hold annual sessions on the third Tuesday in January, and 

 other meetings at such time and place as the Society may direct. 



Art. 12. By-Laws and alterations in the Constitution for the purpose of meeting fur- 

 ther wants of the Society, may be enacted by two-thirds of the members present at any 

 regular meeting. 



Judge Baker moved to pass upon it in sections, and a debate then ensued 

 upon the sections, in order of their being taken up. It was adopted after 

 slight amendments. 



Col. Stevens presented a communication from Senator Baxter, which he 

 desired to have read. It was ordered to be read by the Secretary, and covered 

 a bill providing for the incorporation of the Society, and for other purposes. 



Col. Stevens explained the matter. The bill submitted by Senator Baxter 

 was unconstitutional. He had been a member of both branches of the Legis- 



