THE STATE OF INDIANA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Received by the Governor, examined and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statement. The within report, so far as the same relates to moneys drawn from the State Treasury, has been examined and found correct. D. E. SHERRICK, Auditor of State. February 5, 1903. Returned by the Auditor of State, with above certificate, and transmitted to Secretary of State for publication, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding. CHAS. E. WILSON, Filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana, February 5, 1903. DANIEL E. STORMS, Secretary of State. Received the within report and delivered to the printer this 5th day of February, 1903. THOS. J. CARTER, Clerk Printing Bureau. (4) OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY AND MEMBERS STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE FOR 1902-1903. Prof. James Troop, Lafayette; Walter S. Ratliff, Richmond; E. Y. Teas, Centerville. Committee of Control of Experimental Orchard. Joe A. Burton, Orleans, Superintendent Experimental Orchard; C. M. Hobbs, Prof. Troop and Mrs. W. W. Stevens. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. OF THE INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY CONSTITUTION. 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 and art of horticulture. Article III. Its officers shall consist of a President, thirteen VicePresidents, 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 words, "Organized 1860;" below, "Incorporated 1875." BY-LAWS. I. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society; he, together with the Secretary, shall have power to call meetings of the Executive Committee; he shall present to the Society in his annual address such suggestions and recommendations as may seem appropriate, and shall appoint all special committees unless otherwise directed by the Society. II. The Vice-Presidents shall be designated as the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th, one of whom, in the order named, shall preside in the absence of the President, and each shall be elected to represent his respective district, said districts to be the Congressional Districts as existing in 1902. Each Vice-President shall make annual reports to the Society, embracing such suggestions and recommendations as may to him seem best for the promotion of the horticultural interests of said district, and he shall give such attention to the organization and building up of local societies in his district as may be within his power. III. 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 the meetings of the Society, preparing and publishing 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 the transactions for the current year. He shall also act as librarian of the Society, and shall have the care and custody of its room and its property, under such regulations as may be adopted for the government thereof. IV. The Treasurer shall receive and hold all funds of the Society, paying out the same only as prescribed by the Constitution. Before entering upon his duties he shall give bond to the Society in the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for the faithful performance of such duties. V. The officers shall be elected annually, by a ballot vote, and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. VI. The objects of the Society being to collect, condense and collate information relative to varieties of fruits and other horticultural products, |