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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SECTION I. 



THE OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The officers of this Society shall consist of a Pres- 

 ident, four Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, a Corres- 

 ponding Secretary, a Recording Secretar}^ and a 

 Council of not more than tvventyfour, who, together 

 with such officers as are provided for by the By-Laws, 

 shall be elected annually, by the ballots of a majority 

 of the members present at the annual meeting of the 

 Society, and shall hold their offices for one year, and 

 until others are installed in their stead, and in case 

 of any vacancy the same to be filled at any stated 

 meeting. Provided, however, that the present a- 

 mendments to this Constitution shall in nowise affect 

 the election of officers on the third Saturday of Sep- 

 tember, A. D. 1835, any farther than that their re- 

 spective terms of service, shall cease and determine 

 on the first Saturday of October instead of the first 

 Saturday of December, 1836, if others shall have 

 been elected in their stead. 

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