Download or read book Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri (Classic Reprint) written by L. A. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri Organized January 5, 1859, at Jefferson Citij. Incorporated 1893; at Jrffi-rsun City. Incorporation And Reorganization Of The Horticultural Society By An Act Of The General Assembly In 1893. The following law was passed by the Legislature incorporating the State Horticultural Society. The Executive Committee met soon after the passage of this act and accepted its provisions, and at the semi-annual meeting of the Society at Columbia, June 6, 7, 8, 1893, the act was adopted as part of the constitution of the Society. Membership. Under the nevv constitution the law requires the payment of$1 per year for membership fee. Life membership, $10. L.A. Goodln, Secretary. Act Of The General Assembly. The Missouri Horticultural Society is hereby Instituted and created a body corporate, to be named and styled as above, and shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, and to ma.ke and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. The Missouri Horticultural Society shall be composed of such persons as take an interest in the advancement of Horticulture in this State, who shall apply for membership and pay into the Society treasury the sum of one dollar per year, or ten dollars for a life membership, the basis for organization to be the Missouri Horticultural Society, as now known and existing, and whose expenses have been borne and annual reports paid for by appropriations from the State treasur.v. The business of the Society, so far as it relates to transactions with the State, sh-: ill be conducted by an Executive Board, to be composed of the President, Vice-President, Second Vice-President. Secretary and Treasurer, who thall be elected by ballet at an annual meetingof the Society. The Governor of the State shall be ex-officio a member of the Board all other business of the Society to be conducted as its by-laws may direct. All appropriations made by the State for the aid of the Society shall be expended by means of requisitions to be made by order of the Board on the State Auditor, signed by the President and Secretary and attested with the seal; and the treasurer shall annually publish a detailed statement of the expenditures of the Board, covering ail moneys received by it. The Public Printer shall annually, under the direction of the Board, print such number of the reports of the proceedings of the Board, Society and auxilliary societies as may, in the judgment of the State Prliiti ing Commission, be justified by the appropriation made for that purpose by the General Assembly, such annual report not to contain more than 400 pages. The Secretary of the Society shall receive a salary of eight hundred dollars per annu. ii as full compensation for his services; all other officers shall serve without compensation, except that they may receive their actual expenses in attending meetings of the Board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.