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who aim to do a straightforward and upright business, and are entitled to 

 the confidence of all, still the great number of fraudulent shippers and 

 sellers makes it necessary to throw about both certain restraints. As a 

 safeguard to both, the Executive Committee, at a meeting in Chicago, 

 February 24th, 1875, adopted the following rules of the Northwestern 

 Fruit Growers' Distributing Association, adopted by the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Association : 



SPECIAL RULES, * 



1. The fruit sellers in this Association shall be organized into a Guild, which shall 

 consist of not more than one section in each town or city. 



2. Any member of this general Association may become a member of the Guild 

 (if he sustains a good reputation for honesty and fair dealing, and is responsible for all 

 liabilities likely to be incurred), under the rules hereafter prescribed. 



3. Sections may be organized in any city or town where suitat)le members may be 

 found, who are willing to enter into the organization, in the same manner as is prescribed 

 for the city of Chicago. 



4. In the city of Chicago the Executive Committee of the General Association 

 shall designate a number of commission merchants who have been well tried, and have 

 proved competent and reliable, who shall enter into an organization with President, Vice- 

 President, Secretary and Treasurer, who together shall constitute an advisoiy committee, 

 and their several duties shall be as hereafter set forth. 



5. All applications for authority to organize sections of the Fruit Distributors' 

 Guild shall be made to the President of the General Association, and shall be approved 

 by the officers before the organization shall be valid : Provided moreover that, by a 

 unanimous vote, the Executive Committee may authorize an agent to organize sections 

 of the Guild, to be aftenvards approved. 



6. All applications for membership in any section of the Guild must be made to 

 the Secretary of the section, and be approved by the Advisory Committee before it can 

 be voted on jjy the section, after which a two-thirds vote may admit to membership. 

 But the application shall be made at the regular meeting previous to the one at which 

 final action is taken, and the vote shall be by ballot. 



7. All applications for membership shall be accompanied by a fee of dollars 



for each member of the firm, or for each person applying, and an annual fee of the 

 same amount shall be paid, provided that no one firm shall have more than two mem- 

 berships. 



8. The President and Vice-President of each section shall perform the duties 

 usually devolved on such officers in like societies. 



9. The Secretary, in addition to the ordinary duties of his office, shall promptly 

 report the name and postoffice address of each person or firm admitted to membership, 

 and shall collect and forward with said name to the Secretary of the General Associa- 

 tion the sum of two dollars for each person so admitted, as the membership to the Gen- 

 eral Association, and shall also collect and forward the annual dues on the first day of 

 January of each year, or as soon thereafter as possible. 



10. The Treasurer shall receive and safely keep all money of his section, and shall 

 pay out the same only as directed under the rules of his section. 



GENERAL RULES. 



I. Any member or members of this Association who shall be guilty of dishonesty, 

 or shall knowingly violate the laws of fair dealing, either as consignor or consignee, or 

 who shall fail to promptly pay the proceeds of sales to consignors, or who shall make 

 false representations in regard to sales of fruit or other produce, consigned to them by 

 any member of this Association, shall be suspended, expelled, or otherwise punished as 

 his section or the General Association may consider just after a full hearing. 



2. Whenever any member or meml)ers are guilty of any misdemeanor referred to in 

 the foregoing section, he or they shall be forthwith reported, with all the facts in the 



