FRUIT GROWERS' DISTRIBUTING ASSOCIATION. 531 



SPECIAL RULES. 



Pint, The fruit sellers in this Association shall be organized into a Guild, which shall con- 

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



Second, Any member of the 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 liabil- 

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



Third, Sections may be organized in any city or town where suitable members may be 

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

 for the city of Chicago. 



Fourth, 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 Presi- 

 dent, Secretary and Treasurer, who, together, shall constitute an advisory committee, and 

 their several duties shall be as hereafter set forth. 



Fifth, All applications for authority to organize sections of the Fruit Distributers' 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 afterwards approved. 



Si.rth, All api)lications 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 by 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 ac- 

 tion is taken, and the vote shall be by ballot. 



Seventh, All applications for membership shall be accompanied b}- a fee of S — 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 memberships. 



Eighth, The President and Vice President of each section shall perform the duties usually 

 devolved on such officers in like societies. 



Ninth, The Secretary, in addition to the ordinary duties of his office, shall promptly re- 

 port the name and postofflce address of each person or firm admitted to membership, and 

 shall collect and forward with said name to the Secretary of the General Association, the 

 sum of two dollars for each person so admitted, as the membership fee to the General Asso- 

 ciation, and shall also collect and forward the annual dues, on the 1st day of January of 

 each year, or as soon thereafter as possible. 



Tenth, 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. 



First, 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 repre- 

 sentations 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. 



Second, Whenever any member or members are guilty of any misdemeanor referred to in 

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

 to the President of the General Association, who shall cite them, if members of the Guild, 

 to their section for trial, — if members of the General Association only, to the nearest mem- 

 ber of the Executive Committee, who shall call in two members to sit with him in the trial 

 of the case, and who shall promptly report the result of their investigations to the President 

 for his approval. 



Third, All charges against any member shall be made in writing, and shall be open to 

 inspection by the accused or his counsel. 



Fourth, Whenever any member of the Guild is suspended or expelled, the Secretary of the 

 section of which he was a member, shall immediately notify the Secretary of the General 

 Association, who shall forthwith notify every fruit shipper in the Association. 



Fifth, All members of the General Association found guilty under these rules shall be sus- 

 pended, expelled, or otherwise punished, and each section of the Guild forthwith notified 

 of the action. 



Sixth, Any member not satisfied with the result of any investigation herein provided for, 

 shall have the right of appeal to the General Association at its next annual meeting. But if 

 the sentence involves expulsion, the notice shall be given of the sentence and of the appeal, 

 the same as if final. 



Seventh, Concealing rotten or gnarled fruit in the middle of a package, and covering the 

 outside with fair fruit, shall be considered prima facie evidence of dishonesty in all investi- 

 gations under these rules. 



