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Fruits, of eleven members ; a Committee on Products of 

 Kitchen Gardens, of seven members ; a Committee on 

 Flowers and Shrubs, of seven members ; a Committee on 

 the Library, of five members : a Committee on Finance, 

 of three members : a Committee on Synonyms, of four 

 members, and such other Committees as may from time 

 to time be deemed expedient. 



Article III. 



Duties of Treasurer. 



The Treasurer shall keep regular accounts of all sums 

 of money received and disbursed by him on account of 

 the Society. All payments shall be made by order of the 

 Society, or of the Committee of Finance. The annual 

 account of the Treasurer shall be audited by said Com- 

 mittee of Finance, and presented to the Society at its 

 stated meeting in April ; and it shall be the duty of the 

 Treasurer to furnish the said Committee with a statement 

 of the affairs of the Society, in the month of October : 

 and he shall be allowed, as compensation for his services 

 as Treasurer, the sum of fifty dollars annually. 



Article IY. 



The Object and Distribution of Premiums. 



Premiums or gratuities may be awarded to such per- 

 sons as shall have essentially advanced the objects of the 

 Society, or for the exhibition to the Society of any fruits, 

 vegetables or plants of their growth or cultivation, and 

 either new in their kind, or of imcommon excellence as 

 to quality, or for any new and successful method of cul- 

 tivating any kind of esculent vegetables, fruits, orna- 



