OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1880. OFFICERS. President, PROF. E. GALE, MANHATTAN, RILEY COUNTY. Vice President, G. Y. JOHNSON, LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY. Secretary, G. C. BRACKETT, LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY. Treasurer, FRED. WELLHOUSE, FAIRMOUNT, LEAVENWORTH COUNTY. Trustees, H. E. VAN DEMAN, GENEVA, ALLEN COUNTY. M. B. NEUMAN, WYANDOTTE, WYANDOTTE COUNTY. J. W. ROBSON, CHEEVER, DICKINSON COUNTY. (Entitled to Annual Membership for 1880, under Art. III, Const., as amended at 13th Annual Meeting.) LITSON, W. H.,. MANLOVE, J. D., POPENOE, PROF. E. A., ROBSON, J. W., SAMPSON, J. G., SCHLICHTER, J. B., SHEFFIELD, C. H., STILES, H. A., SMITH, T. W., SMITH, W. W., Oskaloosa. SMITH, A. C., Leroy. Newton. Vesper. White City. Wathena. Leavenworth. Barclay. Humboldt. Pleasanton. Kingman. TAYLOR, E. A., TEMPEST, P., VAN DEMAN, H. E., VAN DOREN, J., WALKER, L. A., WELSH, H. P., WELTY, HENRY, WILLIAMS, J. W., WILLIAMS, J. L., WILLIAMSON, DR. CHAS.. DIVISION, COUNTY AND LOCAL SOCIETIES, AND SECRETARIES FOR 1880. E. A. TAYLOR, Secretary, . Beloit. G. W. ASHBY, Secretary, M. A. PAGE, Secretary, . J. B. SAXE, Secretary, . L. MILLER, Cor. Secretary,. J. VAN DOREN, Secretary, J. W. BYRAM, Secretary, J. W. BYRAM, Secretary, . S. HATCH, Secretary, . Wathena. SAM. REYNOLDS, Secretary, . Lawrence. J. W. ROBSON, Secretary, Cheever. W. A. CLEVELAND, Secretary, Cheever. DAN. NEWBY, Secretary, Howard. . H. P. WELSH, Secretary,. Ottawa. . DR. V. V. ADAMSON, Secretary, Hollon. EDWIN SNYDER, Secretary, . . Oskaloosa. B. S. MCFARLAND, Secretary, . Olathe. H. S. COLEY, Secretary, . NORTHWESTERN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Oswego. Manhattan. . A. G. CHANDLEE, Secretary, . R. B. GEE, Secretary, Paola. . Salina. Pavilion. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. We, the undersigned citizens of Kansas, do hereby associate ourselves as a body corporate, to be known as the KANSAS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, for the promotion of horticultural and pomological science in the State of Kansas. The principal office or place of business of said Society shall be at the city of Lawrence, or such other place in the State of Kansas as the Society may designate at a regular meeting thereof. The number of Trustees of said Society shall be seven, and such Trustees shall have power to make all necessary rules and by-laws for the government of said Society and the transaction of its business. Said Society shall have succession, under the provisions of this charter and the laws of the State of Kansas, for the term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years. In witness of all which, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at the city of Ottawa, in the county of Franklin, in said State of Kansas, this fifteenth day of December, A. D. 1869. On this 15th day of December, 1869, before me, a notary public in and for said county, came William Tanner of Leavenworth county, Charles B. Lines of Wabaunsee county, William M. Howsley of Leavenworth county, S. T. Kelsey of Franklin county, George C. Brackett of Douglas county, George T. Anthony of Leavenworth county, J. Stayman of Leavenworth, to me personally known to be the identical persons described in and who signed the above charter, and acknowledged the same to be their own act and deed for the purposes therein. JAMES CHRISTIAN, [SEAL.] Notary Public, Douglas County. I, W. H. Smallwood, Secretary of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original certificate of incorporation, filed in my office December 20, A. D. 1869. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the great seal of the State. Done at Topeka, this twenty-ninth day of August, A. D. 1871. { GREAT SEAL } OF KANSAS. W. H. SMALLWOOD, Secretary of State. |