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all contracts, employ all laborers, expend all moneys, and 

 superintend all improvements made by the Association. They 

 shall hold meetings monthly from April to October in each 

 year, and as mucli oftener as they may deem expedient. 



5. Every person, who shall plant three trees by the road side, 

 under the direction of the Executive Committee, or pa}^ three 

 dollars in one year, or one dollar annually, and obligate himself 

 or herself to pay the same annually for three years, shall be a 

 member of this Association. 



6. The payment of ten dollars annually for three years, or of 

 twenty-five dollars in one sum, shall constitute one a life 

 member of this Association. 



7. Five members of the Executive Committee present at any 

 meeting shall constitute a quorum. 



8. No debt shall be contracted by the Executive Committee 

 beyond the amount of available means within their control, 

 and no member of the Association shall be liable for any debt 

 of the Association, beyond the amount of his or her subscription. 



9. The Executive Committee shall call an annual meeting, 

 giving due notice of the same, for the election of officers of this 

 Association, and at said meeting, shall make a detailed report 

 of all moneys received and expended during the year, the 

 number of trees planted under their direction, and the number 

 planted by individuals, length of side- walks made or repaired, 

 and the doings of the Committee in general. 



10. This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting 

 by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



GARDEN CEMETERIES. 



So excellent in almost every respect are many of the 

 large garden cemeteries of our country, that all that may 

 be said in praise of them — and much praise is thus be- 

 stowed botli at home and by foreigners — is usually well 

 merited. But what on the other band can be said of the 

 strongly contrasted condition of thousands of small, old- 



