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OFFICERS FOR 1877 AND 1878.

PRESIDENT.

SYLVESTER JOHNSON, Irvington, Marion County.

1ST.

VICE PRESIDENTS.

JOSEPH M. BULLA, Richmond, Wayne County. 2D. L. B. CUSTER, Logansport, Cass County. 3D. F. H. FOUST, Columbia City, Whitley County. 4TH. OLIVER ALBERTSON, Bridgeport, Marion County.

SECRETARY.

W. H. RAGAN, Clayton, Hendricks County.

TREASURER.

DANIEL COX, Cartersburg, Hendricks County.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

J. C. RATLIFF, Richmond, Wayne County.
DR. ALLEN FURNAS, Danville, Hendricks County.
D. E. HOFFMAN, Winchester, Randolph County.

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF THE

INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The undersigned, officers of Indiana Horticultural Society, for the purpose of a more thorough and perfect organization, have this twenty-second day of December, 1875, agreed upon the following Articles of Association, (and the subjoined seal), under which to incorporate the society, pursuant to the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 10, 1875:

ARTICLE I. This organization shall be known as the Indiana Horticultural Society.

ARTICLE II. The objects of the society are to develop facts and promulgate information pertaining to the science of horticulture.

ARTICLE III. Its officers shall consist of a President, four Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee of three.

ARTICLE IV. Its members shall consist of annual members paying a fee of one dollar per annum into the treasury of the society, and honorary members who shall be elected by the society for merit as horticulturists of distinction, who may, at pleasure, participate in the deliberations of the Society. Members' wives will be members without fee.

ARTICLE V. Each member shall be entitled to a copy of the transactions of the society as often as the same shall be published.

ARTICLE VI. The Treasurer shall not disburse money except on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President.

ARTICLE VII. The Executive Committee shall require of the Treasurer such security as may be deemed sufficient for the safe keeping of the funds of the society.

ARTICLE VIII. The seal of the society shall consist of an outer rim embracing the inscription, “Indiana Horticultural Society;" within this, and above the central figure, consisting of a vase of flowers, a pear and apple resting upon a section of vine with its fruit, the word "Organized 1860;" below, "Incorporated 1875."

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CONSTITUTION

OF THE

INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

1. This society shall be known as "INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY." 2. Its officers shall consist of a President, four Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee of three.

3. The President shall preside at and conduct all meetings of the society, and in his absence the Vice-Presidents, in their order, shall perform the same duties.

4. The Secretary shall record all the doings of the society, collate and prepare all communications, etc., for the public press, and pay over all money received from members, or otherwise, to the Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive and answer all communications addressed to the society; establish and maintain correspondence with all local, county, district, and State Horticultural Societies, and secure by exchange their transactions, as far as possible, to aid the President, as an executive officer, in the dispatch of business relating to meetings of the society; prepare and publish circulars and notices of horticultural and similar meetings of general interest, and report to the annual meeting of the society an abstract of the matter that has come into his possession, which, with its approval, shall become part of its transactions of the current year.

5. The Treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the society, and pay out the same only on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President.

6. The officers shall be elected separately and annually by a ballot vote, and hold their offices until their successors are elected.

7. The objects of the society being to collect, condense and collate information relative to all varieties of fruits and dispense the same among the people, every member shall pay into the treasury one dollar a year for the purpose of publishing and other expenses. Any person interested in horticulture may become a member by forwarding to the Treasurer or Secretary the fee of membership.

8. Every member shall be entitled to a copy of the transactions of the society as often as the same shall be published.

9. The President, Secretary and Executive Committee may call a meeting of the society at any time and place they may consider advisable, by a notice of thirty days in the public press.

10. The President, at each annual meeting of the society, shall appoint a general fruit committee, consisting of one member from each Congressional District in the State, and it shall be the duty of each member to report upon the fruit crop in his respective district, and it shall be the duty of said committee to report annually a limited list of fruits best adapted to general cultivation for the State at large, and also lists adapted for cultivation north and south of the National road.

11. This society shall hold its annual sessions on the third Tuesday in December in each year, and at such place as the society shall designate at its previous meeting. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to procure rooms and make all necessary arrangements for the holding of the meetings of the society, to make out a programme of business for each meeting, and attend to such other duties as the Society may from time to time direct.

12. The officers of this Society, together with the Fruit Committee, shall constitute a Board of Horticulture, five of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, the officers of the Society to be officers of the Board, said Board to meet immediately on the adjournment of the Society, and afterwards on their own adjournment. It shall be the duty of the Board of Horticulture to collect horticultural information, and they shall be authorized to employ an agent or agents to visit different portions of our State or adjoining States to collect horticultural information of general interest, and shall be authorized to draw on the Treasurer for money to pay the expense of said agent or agents, when there is money in the treasury not otherwise needed, and said Board shall make full and definite reports of all their proceedings, with all horticultural information collected, to the regular meeting of the Society.

13. By-laws and alterations in the constitution, for the purpose of governing further wants of the Society, may be enacted by a majority of the members present at any regular session.

STATE LAWS AFFECTING HORTICULTURE.

AN ACT providing for the incorporation of State, District and County Horticultural Associations.

[APPROVED MARCH 10TH, 1875.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That associations of persons for horticultural purposes, whether State, District or County Associations, may become incorporated in the manner following: An association of persons, known as a State Horticultural Society, may become incorporated by depositing in the office of the Secretary of State, a certified copy of the articles of association with the name assumed, and a description and impress of the seal adopted by such association. An association of persons known as a District or County Horticultural Association may become incorporated by depositing in the office of the Recorder of the county where such association is organized, a statement, under the seal of the State Horticultural Association, showing that such District or County Association was organized for horticultural purposes, and is entitled to representation in such State Horticultural Association at its annual and official meetings, and that such District or County Association has consented to elect at least one delegate to represent such Association in the annual and official meetings of such State Horticultural Society, and at the same time deposited, in said office, the name by which said association shall be known, with a description of the seal adopted, which statement, so deposited with such Recorder, shall be by him recorded in the miscellaneous record, for which he may charge and collect the sum of fifty cents, and thereupon such State, District or County Horticultural Association, by the name they shall assume, shall become bodies corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, and may by such name sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, and may take, hold and convey real and personal property, and may make all such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of such associations, and the management of their affairs and property, as to them may seem best, not inconsistent with the laws of this State. Such associations may each purchase, improve or sell, not exceeding at any one time one hundred acres of land, for the use and pnrposes of such association; may erect thereon such buildings as they may deem proper for the use of such association, and the improvement of said land.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any State Horticultural Association, organized under the provisions of the first section of this act, to hold at the city of Indianapolis, or some other place in this State, to be selected by such Association at its preceding meeting, an annual meeting for the purpose of deliberating and consulting as to the wants, prospects and conditions of the horticultural interest of the people of the State, at which meeting the District and County Horticultural Associations may be represented by at least one or more delegates each, as such State Association may provide for, and such District and County Associations shall forward by such representatives the report of the condition and prospect of such District or County

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