JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR,

CHAPTER 215.

AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland State Horticultural
Society and to appropriate a sum of money therefor.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the members of the Maryland State Horticultural
Society be and they are hereby incorporated under the name
and style of "The Maryland State Horticultural Society,"
and by that name shall have perpetual succession, sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity
whatsoever, and may have and use a common seal, and the
same alter at pleasure.

Md. State
Horticultural
Society.
Incorporated.

SEC. 2. The affairs of the corporation shall be managed by
an executive board, consisting of the president, first vice-
president and secretary of the society, the president of the
Western Maryland Horticultural Society, and the president
or first vice-president, representing the State of Maryland, as
the case may be, of the Peninsula Horticultural Society, and
that said officers now elect shall be the first members of the
executive board created by this Act, and shall hold their
offices until their successors are duly elected in conformity
with the respective constitutions of said societies.

Management
of the
corporation.

SRC. 3. The said executive board shall have sole care and
disposal of all funds appropriated by the Legislature of Mary-
land for the Maryland State Horticultural Society, and shall
expend the same in such manner as will, in their judgment,
best promote the development of the horticultural interests of
the State of Maryland. They shall render annually to the
Governor of the State a detailed statement of all funds
received from the State and all other sources, and also of all
expenditures made by them and the specific objects for which
said sums were expended. They shall make no appropriation
unless they have funds on hand to meet the same. The mem-
bers of said board shall be jointly and severally liable for the
payment of any debt created by the board in the absence of
funds in the treasury to meet such obligation; nor in any
event shall any debt be contracted except by the concurrent
vote of the members of said board, which number shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Care and
disposal of
funds.
Members of
board liable
for debt.

SEC. 4. The executive board shall, through the secretary
of the society, render to the Governor of the State an annual
report of its transactions, published at the expense of the
society, which publication shall include the annual reports of
the State Entomologist and State Pathologist, together with

Annual report
to the
Governor
of the State.