1296 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 2, 3, 6 and 7 of Chapter 387 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1906, entitled An Act
to incorporate the Maryland State Horticultural Society and
to appropriate a sum of money therefor be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. The affairs of the corporation shall be managed by
an executive board, consisting of the president, first vice-presi-
dent and secretary of the society, the president or first vice-
president representing the State of Maryland, as the case may
be, of the Peninsula Horticultural Society and the three mem-
bers of the Maryland State Horticultural Society elected by the
society, who shall hold their offices until their successors are
duly elected by the society in conformity with the respective
constitutions of said societies, and the existing board shall re-
main in office until the next regular election of an executive
board.

SEC. 3. The said executive board shall have sole care and
disposal of all funds appropriated by the Maryland Legislature
for the Maryland State Horticultural Society, and shall expend
the same in such manner as will in their judgment best pro-
mote the development of the horticultural interests of Mary-
land. Provided, however, that $500.00 of this appropriation
shall be devoted to the interests and expended for the Maryland
Crop Improvemnt Association. They shall render annually to
the Governor of the State a detailed statement of all funds re-
ceived from the State or elsewhere, 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 members 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 obligations; nor in any event shall any debt be con-
tracted except by a majority vote of said board, which ma-
jority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 6. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
this Act and to aid in the development and conservation of
horticulture in Maryland the sum of Three Thousand Dollars
is hereby appropriated and the same amount annually there-
after ; and the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby authorized
to issue his warrant annually upon the State Treasurer for the
sum of Three Thousand Dollars, to be paid out of any funds