CONSTITUTION OF MINN. STATE HORT. SOCIETY. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE MINNESOTA STATE 

 HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ADOPTED JAN. 9, 1895. AMENDED JAN. 7, AND 9, 1898. 



Article I. — Name. — This societj'^ shall be known as the Minnesota 

 State Horticultural Society. 



Article II. — Its object — The object of this society shall be the 

 advaucenient of the art and science of horticulture throughout the 

 State. 



Article III. — Membership.— Any person may become an annual 

 naember by paying- to the secretary an annual fee of $1.00, or a life 

 member by the payment of $10 00, provided that the life fee may be^ 

 paid in two annual payments of $5.00 each. The members of any 

 local horticultural society, the annual fee of which is not less than 

 $1.00, may become annual members of this society, provided such 

 local society shall send to the annual meeting of this society a 

 duly authorized delegate, and shall transmit to the secretary a 

 properly certified list of its members, an annual report of its pro- 

 ceedings, together with the papers read at its meetings, and an 

 annual fee of twenty-five cents for each member of such local 

 society. 



All memberships shall expire at the close of the first day of the 

 next annual meeting. Honorary members for the time stated, or for 

 life, may be elected at any annual meeting by a two-thirds vote of 

 the members present, provided that the name proposed for this 

 purpose shall be first referred to the executive board. Every 

 member shall be entitled to one copy of the transactions, postpaid, 

 as often as published. 



No member shall vote at any election of officers except those 

 who have been members for not less than two consecutive years 

 immediately preceding that in which the election is being held. 



Article IV. — Officers. — Its officers shall consist of a president, 

 one vice-president from each congressional district, a secretary, a 

 treasurer, a librarian and an executive board of six. All officers 

 shall be elected separately and by ballot cast personally by the 

 membership, and shall hold office until their successors are elected 

 and qualified, except that the vice-presidents may be elected by the 

 secretary casting therefor the ballot of the society. The annual 

 election of officers shall take place on the afternoon of the third day 

 of the annual meeting. All terms of office shall begin immediately 

 upon election, and no person shall be eligible to hold office who has 

 not been a member of the society for the three years immediately 

 preceding. The president, vice presidents and the treasurer shall 

 hold their offices for one year. An executive board to consist of six 



