APPENDIX. 



ACT OF IJ^COEPOEATIOK 



STATE OF MAINE. 



In the Year of Otjr Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Threk. 

 An Act to Incorporate the Maine State Pomological Society. 



Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as 



follows: 



Section 1. Z. A. Gilbert, George W. Woodman, A. L. Simpson, George B. Sawyer, 

 J. C. Weston, Charles Pope, Samuel Rolfe, James A. Varney, Albert Noyes, Rafus 

 Prince, J. C. Madigan, S. F. Perley, Hannibal Belcher, J. B. Phillips, Joseph Taylor, 

 Harvey Counce, John Currier, William Swett, Henry McLaughlin, Calvin Chamberlain, 

 Washington Gilbert, George 0. Weston, Hiram Chase, J. C. Talbot and S. L. Goodale, 

 their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a corporation for the promotion 

 of fruit culture, by the name of The Maine State Pomological Societt. 



Sec. 2. Said society shall have all the rights, privileges and powers conferred by the 

 laws of this State upon county and local agricultural societies, and shall be subject to 

 all liabilities imposed by existing laws upon such societies, so far as the same are appli- 

 cable to the objects of this society; but the bounty to be paid by the State to said 

 society shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in one year. 



Sec. 3. Said society shall have power to elect such officers, and adopt such by-laws 

 and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as may be necessary to 

 carry into eflfect the objects of the society. 



Sec. 4. The first meeting of said society may be called by A. L. Simpson, J. C. 

 Weston and Geo. B. Sawyer, by a notice signed by them, stating the time and place of 

 said meeting, to be published two weeks successively in the Maine Farmer, the last 

 publication to be seven days at least before the time of said meeting. 



Sec. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. 



• [Approved February 17, 1873.] 



