ANNUAL ELECTION. 221 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, October 4, 1890. 



A stated meeting of the Society, being the Annual Meeting for 

 the choice of Officers and Standing Committees, was liolden at 

 eleven o'clock, the President, William H. Spoonhr, in the chair. 



The Recording Secretary stated that the requirements of the 

 Constitution and By-Laws in regard to notice of the meeting had 

 been complied with. 



On motion of Edmund Hersey, Chairman of the Committee on 

 Large and Interesting Trees, it was voted that Francis H. Ap- 

 pleton be added to the Committee. 



The amendment to the Constitution and By-Laws, changing the 

 last clause of Section 1 so as to read, " Provided, however, that 

 no person shall be eligible to any office unless he shall have been a 

 member for the three years preceding," which at the stated meet- 

 ing in July received a majority of votes and was ordered to be 

 entered on the records, came up for final action, and two-thirds of 

 the members present voting in favor of said amendment, it was de- 

 clared by the President to be adopted as a part of the Constitution 

 and By-Laws. 



On motion of Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman of the Committee 

 on Plants and Flowers, it was voted as the sense of the meeting 

 that an additional appropriation of three hundred dollars should 

 be made for the use of that Committee the present year. 



It was then voted to proceed to the election of officers and 

 standing committees for the year 1891, and that the polls be kept 

 open for one hour. 



Agreeably to the Constitution and By-Laws the Chair appointed 

 John C. Hovey, I. Gilbert Robbins, and William J. Hargraves a 

 Committee to receive, assort, and count the votes given and re- 

 port the number. The polls were opened at twenty-eight minutes 

 past eleven o'clock. 



Tlie Secretary laid before the Society a letter from the Oxford 

 Agricultural Society announcing that the Hon. J. W. Stockwell 

 had been appointed to have the free use of the Library of this 

 Society, agreeably to the circular dated February 15, 1890. 



