MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 133 
AN ACT 
TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING OF THE 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL SOCI- 
ETY AND THE DISTRIBUTION THEREOF. e 
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 
SECTION ONE. 
The object of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, an incor- 
poration duly incorporated under the general laws of this State, be- 
ing 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 exceed- 
ing 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 un- 
til 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, pro- 
vided, the number of printed pages of said volume shall not exceed 
two hundred ; the Secretary of State shall distribute the same as fel- 
lows, to-wit: two hundred copies in making the customary 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 Legis- 
lature and the officers thereof; and to each of the State officers ; 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 num- 
ber of its members, with an abstract of its proceedings for publica- 
tion 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 
