CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SECTION I . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority 

 of the same, That Zebedee Cook, Jr., Robert L. Emmons, 

 William Worthington, B. V. French, John B. Russell, J. R. 

 Newhall, Cheever Newhall, and Thomas G. Fessenden, their 

 Associates and Successors, be, and they hereby are incorpo- 

 rated, under the name, and by the description of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, for the purpose of encouraging 

 and improving the science and practice of horticulture, and 

 promoting the amelioration of the various species of trees, 

 fruits, plants and vegetables, and the introduction of new- 

 species and varieties ; with power to make by-laws not incon- 

 sistent with the Laws of the Commonwealth, for the regula- 

 tion of said society and the management of the same and of 

 its concerns ; to receive donations, bequests and devises, for 

 promoting the objects of said society ; to lay and collect 

 assessments on the members not exceeding two dollars per 

 annum ; to enforce the payment of such assessments by ac- 

 tion for the same ; to purchase and hold real estate to the 

 amount of ten thousand dollars, and personal estate to the 

 amount of twenty thousand dollars ; to elect a treasurer, sec- 

 retary and other officers, the appointment of which shall be 

 provided for in the by-laws of said society ; the meeting for 

 the election of such officers to be called at the times and in 

 the manner provided in such by-laws ; to empower the presi- 

 dent, directors, comptrollers, treasurer, committees, or other 

 officers or members, or any attorneys, agents or representa- 

 tives of said society, to transact the business, manage and 



