14 ANNUAL REPORT 



ARTICLE IV. 



OFFICERS. 



Its oflBcers shall consist of a president and one vice president from 

 each congressional district, a secretary, treasurer, aad an executive 

 committee of five, and librarian. 



ARTICLE V. 



DUTIES OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENTS. 



The president shall preside at and conduct all meetings of the Socie- 

 ty, and deliver an annual address, and in his absence the vice presidents, 

 in tlieir order, shall perform the same duties. They shall also have a 

 general supervisiou of the horticultural interests in their respective 

 districts, and make a written report to the Society at its annual winter 

 meeting; in consideration of which the Society shall pay their trav- 

 eling expenses to the same. 



ARTICLE VL 



THE SECRETARY. 



The secretary shall record all the doings of the Society, collate and 

 prepare all communications, etc., for the public press, and pay over 

 all moneys received irom members or otherwise to the treasurer on his 

 receipt; receive and answer all communications addressed to the sec. 

 retary, establish and maintain correspondence with all local, county, 

 district and state horticultural societies, 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 the meetings of the Society, 

 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 transactions of the current year, 



ARTICLE VII. 



THE TREASURER. 



The treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the Society, and pay 

 out the same only on the order of the president, countersigned by the 

 secretary. He shall make up a report of all the receipts and disburse- 



