Committee on Postal Laws, Remittances and Postage Special Committee on Government Seed Distribution. ALBERT M'CULLOUGH, Chairman. Address of Welcome-Mayor Stoy, Announcement of Death of W. J. Mandeville, Report of Committee Appointed to consider J. E. North- Paper "The Importance of Accurate Descriptions of the Varieties of Garden Vegetables"-Prof. J. J. Paper "Southern Forage Plants"-G. B. McVay, Paper "The Application of Business Systems to the Report on an Action of the Wholesale Seedsmen's League, 106 Report of Obituary Committee on Death of W. J. Man- Invitations for Next Annual Meeting, Invitation to St Louis-Thomas K. Bruner, Informal Ballot for Choice of Next Place of Meeting, CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE I. This Association shall be known as the American Seed Trade Association. ARTICLE II. The object of the Association shall be the development of such relations and intimacies between the members as exist in all standard social organizations; and through and in that firmier business relation in which all can stand together in the effort to improve and perfect a standard of business integrity, which shall include purity of stocks, honesty of representation, carefulness of obligations, and promptness in execution. Also the discussion of all subjects of interest to, or belonging to, the Seed Trade. ARTICLE III. The membership shall consist of regular seed-growers and dealers whose chief business is the buying and selling of seeds, or agricultural tools and seeds, in this country and Canada. ARTICLE I. Section 1. Any individual or firm engaged in the seed trade in this country or Canada, as provided for in Article III of the Constitution, shall be eligible to membership in this Association; firms shall be entitled to one vote only, but each individual member of a firm may become a member of the Association on the payment of the regular membership fee, and be entitled to all the privileges of the Association, in person or by proxy. Sec. 2. New members may be elected at the annual convention of the Association, or at any special meeting that may be held, after having been recommended by the Committee on Membership. Amendment to Article I, Section 2, adopted June, 1897: All applicants for membership must be recommended as eligible by at least one member of the Association. The election of new members shall be by ballot. It shall require the affirmative ballot of at least two-thirds of the members present and voting to elect a member. No applicant for admission to membership shall be balloted for on the day of his proposal, except by a unanimous vote suspending the rule. Sec. 3 Each member shall pay an annual assessment of five dollars, which shall be due at the commencement of each year. Sec. 4. Any member not in arrears to the Association may withdraw from it, filing with the Secretary a written notice of his intention. Any member who shall be in arrears over two years for his dues, or who shall conduct himself in a manner that is considered at variance with the interests of this Association, shall, written charges having been preferred, be suspended from membership by order of the President, upon recommendation of the Committee on Membership, and, after a hearing before the Association at its next meeting, may be expelled by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. *Amendment of June, 1902. |