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BY-LAWS 



Article I 

 Committees. The association shall appoint standing committees as 

 follows : On membership, on finance, on programme, on press 

 and publication, on nomenclature, on promising seedlings, on 

 hybrids, and an auditing committee. The committee on mem- 

 bership may make recommendations to the association as to the 

 discipline or expulsion of any member. 



Article II 



Fees. Annual members shall pay three dollars annually, or four dol- 

 lars and a half including a year's subscription to the American 

 Nut Journal. Contributing members shall pay ten dollars an- 

 nually, this membership including a year's subscription to the 

 American Nut Journal. Life members shall make one payment 

 of fifty dollars, and shall be exempt from further dues. Hon- 

 orary members shall be exempt from dues. 



Article III 

 Membership. All annual memberships shall begin either with the 

 first day of the calendar quarter following the date of joining 

 the association, or with the first day of the calendar quarter 

 preceding that date as may be arranged between the new mem- 

 ber and the Treasurer. 



Article IV 

 Amendments. By-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of mem- 

 bers present at any annual meeting. 



Article V 



jNIembers shall be sent a notification of annual dues at the time they 

 are due, and if not pinid within two months, they shall be sent a 

 second notice, telling them that they are not in good standing on ac- 

 count of non-payment of dues, and are not entitled to receive the 

 annual report. 



At the end of thirty days from the sending of the second notice, 

 a third notice shall be sent notifying sucli members that unless dues are 

 paid within ten days from receipt of this notice, their names will be 

 dropped from the rolls for non-payment of dues. 



