22 BY-LAWS. 



ARTICLE Xn. 



When a written request shall be left at the Hall for a particular book, 

 then out, it shall be retained for the person requiring it, for two days after 

 it shall have been returned. 



The Committee on the Synonyms of Fruits shall faci- 

 Htate an interchange of fruits with other HorticuUural 

 Societies, for the purpose of estabhshing their synonyms. 



Article XV. 



Members residing at a Distance. 



Members of the Society, residing more than twenty 

 miles from the city of Boston, shall be exempt from the 

 annual assessment, provided they have paid the fee of 

 admission and one general assessment. 



All the By-Laws of the Society heretofore adopted by 

 the Society, are hereby annulled. 



Amendment. 



Amendment to the By-Laws, adopted January 1.5th, 

 1842. — '• That when candidates for Honorary or Corres- 

 ponding Members shall be hereafter proposed for admis- 

 sion, their names shall be handed in to the Executive 

 Committee, and if said Committee shall approve of said 

 nominations, it shall report the names of such persons to 

 the Society for its action thereon.'' 



