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September 9. The following proposed amendments to the By- 

 laws were adopted and referred to the Society for action at the 

 annual meeting in November: 



Section IX, sub-section 4, on page 12, to be amended by strik- 

 ing out the first sentence thereof and inserting the following: 



(4) They shall consider and pass upon all questions of the appropriation 

 of money, including the amounts to be appropriated for prizes and gratui- 

 ties, and shall, at the annual meeting, report to the Society the amounts- 

 they have appropriated for prizes and gratuities during the ensuing year, 

 and also such other appropriations as they think meet for the ensuing year. 



Section II to be amended by striking out the period at the end 

 thereof and inserting the following : 



; provided, however, that the Trustees may appropriate a sum or sums 

 not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars in any one year for the 

 purpose of prizes and gratuities. 



It w^as voted to authorize the Committee on Prizes and Exhibi- 

 tions to publish a preliminary schedule of the Spring Exhibition of 

 March, 1906. On motion of ]Mr. Spooner it was voted to recom- 

 mend to the Society at its annual meeting an appropriation of 

 $6700.00 for prizes and gratuities for the year 1906; the division of 

 this amount among the several committees to be made by the 

 Committee on Prizes and Exhibitions. 



Mr. Fewkes presented the following motion : 



]\Ioved. — That two or more delegates be sent each year to, at least two 

 of the principal exhibitions held in the United States, and one or more 

 delegates be sent once in three years to European exhibitions, and that 

 these delegates shall make a report of such matters as in their opinion will 

 be of interest and value to this Society. And also that these delegates be 

 appointed each year by the Committee on Exhibitions, subject to approval 

 by the Board of Trustees. 



It was voted to refer the matter to the Finance Committee. 



On motion of Mr. Fewkes it was voted to extend an invitation 

 to the American Peony Society to hold its next annual exhibition in 

 connection with the Peony Exhibition of the ^Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society in June, 1906. 



