134 ANNUAL REPORT. 
Treasurer, and an executive committee of three or more members, all 
shall be elected by ballot at the annual meetings of this society, which hall be 
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held on the 3d Tuesday in January. 
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ArticLE 6. The principal place of business shall be wherever the dois < 
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BY-LAWS. 
DUTIES OF OFFCERS. 
1. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of the 
society, when present, and to deliver an address at the annual meeting of the 
same. In the absence of the President, one of the Vice Presidents shall preside 
in bis place. 
2. 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 members or otherwise, to the Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive and 
answer all communications addressed to the society; establish and maintain cor- 
respondence with all local, county, district, and state horticultural someties, and 
secure, by exchange, their Transactions, as far as possible; to aid the President, 
as an executive officer, in the dispatch of business 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 shall become part of the Transactions for the 
current year, and shall be prepared by him for the public printer. 
3. 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. 
4, An executive committee of five shall be chosen annually, who shall, in 
connection with the President and Secretary (who shall be members ex officio) 
have in charge all matters pertaining to the interests of the society; shall revise 
all matter coming into the hands of the Secretary, and pass upon the same their 
approval before its submission to the annual meeting. 
5. The executive committee may call a meeting of the society at any time and 
place they may deem advisable for the interests of the society, giving at least 
thirty days’ notice through the public press, and shall in no case incur any expense 
exceeding fifty dollars, except by authority of the vote of the society at its 
annual meeting, when the specific object and the amount so appropriated shall 
be designated. 
6. The President, at each annual meeting of the society, or as soon thereafter 
as practicable, 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 annnally, also a limited list 
of fruits best adapted to general cultivation in the district which such member 
represents. 
