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posed amendment or change shall have been submitted to the membership 

 at least thirty days prior to the date o£ such meeting, and it shall further 

 be the dutv of the secretary-manager to incorporate such proposed amend- 

 ments or changes in the call or notice for the holding of the said semi- 

 annual meeting. 



Section 2. The Board of Directors of the institute shall be authorized 

 to make and amend the by-laws of the institute. 



BY-LAWS 

 Article I 

 Section 1. The order of business shall be as follows : 

 Roll call. 



Reading of the minutes of the last •meeting. 

 Report of the officers. 

 Report of committees. 

 General business. 



Election of officers (at annual meeting). 

 New business. 

 Adjournment. 

 Section 2. Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the meeting of the 

 institute anil its subservient bodies as to parliamentary usages when not 

 inconsistent with the constitution and by-laws. 



Section 3. The secretary, at any regular meeting, shall make a register 

 of all those present entitled to vote. 



Article II 

 Committees. 



Section 1. The president shall annually appoint standing committees 

 as hereinafter enumerated for the purposes as designated. 



Section 2. All standing or special committees of this institute shall 

 have full power to act, subject to the ratification of the Board of Directors 

 at an.v meeting of same. 



Section 3. Committee on Membership : To take such steps as are neces- 

 sary to increase the membership of the institute ; to receive and to pass 

 upo'n the eligibility of those making application for membership, taking 



into consideration their status as manufacturers and their business in- 

 tegrity and reputation. 



Section 4. Committee on Assessments ; Consisting of five members, 

 who shall assess the annual dues as provided in Article V of the constitu- 

 tion, with power to have audited the records of the members as to their 

 production. 



Section 5. Committee on Advertising : This committee shall consist of 

 five members, and shall co-ordinate and supervise subject to the Board of 

 Directors such advertising as the institute may cause to be done. 



Section 6. Committee on Finance; To consist of three members, who 

 shall attend to the auditing of the books of the institute and handle such 

 other matters as should properly come before such a committee. 



Section 7. Committee on Resolutions ; To consist of three members, 

 to lie appointed by the president at each meeting of the institute, to which 

 shall be referred all matters which should properly come before such a 

 committee. 



Section 8. Committee on Reports and Statistics : To work out plans 

 for the securing and tabulating of such information and statistics as will 

 be of interest and value to the membership, and to determine on the form 

 in which information shall be distributed to the public, with power to have 

 audited the records of the members on which their reports are based. 



Section 9. Committee on Standardization. Nomenclature, Grading and 

 Inspection Rules and Inspection Service : To consist of five members to 

 whom shall be referred and who shall consider and make recommendations 

 in respect to all subjects respecting standardization, nomenclature, grad- 

 ing and inspection rules and inspection service, reporting thereon to the 

 Board of Directors. 



Section 10. Committee on Press and Publicity : To consist of three 

 members. 



ARTICLE III 



Section 1. The Board of Directors nia.v, in accordance with Article X. 

 Section 2, of the constitution amend these by-laws and make such addi- 

 tional by-laws and rules for the transaction of the business of the insti- 

 tute .IS its development may require. 



National Lumber Manufacturers^ Association 

 Plans Further Standardization Meetings 



The second step in the lumber industry 's program of simplifica- 

 tioti of grades and rules, it has been announced by the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, who was elected the acting 

 body at the May Washington standardization conference to formu- 

 late the simplification plans, will be held at the Forest Products 

 Laboratory, Madison, Wis., beginning July 13 and continuing to 

 July 20. 



In addition to the delegates from the subscribing association who 

 participated in the standardization conference, the following com- 

 mittee of technical men has been chosen to act in the capacity as 

 advisors: 



Chester J. Hogue, West Coast Lumbermen's Association; Dudley 

 F, Holtman, (chairman), National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation; J. E, Jones, Southern Pine Association; Theo. F. Laist, 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; Louis C, C. Laursen, 

 Pacific Coast Inspection Bureau; John A, Xewlin, Forest Products 

 Laboratory; George W. Strehan, Southern Pine Association; Arthur 

 T. Upson, Forest Products Laboratory; Hermann von Schrenck, 

 consulting timber engineer, and representatives of the United 

 States Department of Commerce, to be named later. 



The reports and recommendations of this committee and repre- 

 sentatives of the subscribing committee, it is planned, will be sub- 

 mitted to the general conference of manufacturers and others, who 

 will meet in Chicago July 21-22. Immediateh- following the Chi- 

 cago conference the present plan is to conduct a series of meetings 

 throughout the country and let the trade know what the associa- 

 tions are trying to do and seek their co-operation. 



In issuing the call for the meeting, the following notice was sent 

 to the committee of technical advisers and to each member of the 

 subscribing association, and to the delegates who attended the 

 Washington lumber standardization conference: 



I — Simplification of Gr-idf.s and N.v.mf.s 

 July 12-20 — At Madison (U. S. Forest Products Laboratory) — Technical 

 committee of association engineers and technical experts : chairman, D. F. 

 Holtman, construction engineer, 



July 21-22 — .\t Chicago — General conference of all lumber organizations, 

 called by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 1a accordance 

 with resolutions passed at Washington standardization conference, May 

 22-26. 



July 26 (tentative) — Conference of lumbermen, Including representa- 

 tives of producers, distributors and consumers, at Portland, Ore. 



July 20 — At Chicago, Congress Hotel — Committee on simplification of 



grades and names of 14 members of lumber producers, including chairman, 

 to be later designated (to serve with respect to both grades and inspec- 

 tion : see below). 



Representation to committee of producers : 

 ( a) One from each subscribing association. 



(b) One from National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



(c) One from Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. 



II — Organiz.vtiox of Inspection Service 

 .Tuly 20 — At Chicago — Meeting of association inspection oflJcials and' 

 chief inspectors to consider methods of procedure on resolution relating 

 to nationally supervised inspection. 



July 21-22 — At Chicago — General conference of lumber organizations; 

 see above. 



July 26 (tentative) — Conference of lumbermen at Portland, Ore.; see 

 above. 



July 20 — At Chicago. Ciuigress Hotel — Iiispcctiou service, representing 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and regional associations- 

 (same as committee on simplification of grades and names). 

 Committee to have assistance of : 



la) Technical committee of association engineers and technical 



experts on simplification of grades and names, 

 (b) Association inspection officials and chief inspectors on organiza- 

 tion of Inspection service. 



Ill — Grade Marking 

 Lumber Division of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce invited 

 to make, in behalf of the lumber industry, a report on the use, cost and; 

 practicability of grade-marking and lumber marking as practiced both in. 

 the United States and abroad ; 

 (1) Practicability. 



Extent <if practice. 

 Method of applying. 

 Cost. 

 Arguments pro and con. applying to : 



(a) Domestic trade. 



(b) Foreign trade. 

 Effect of grade marking on : 



(a) Quality of manufacture. 



(b) Demand for marked lumber. 



(c) Price of lumber. 

 Relation to inspection service. 

 Competitive advantages of grade marked lumber. 

 Competitive disadvantages of grade marked lumber. 

 Foreign countries where : 



(a) Lumber produced is generally marked. 



(b) Lumber sold is generally marked. 



IV — Size Standardization 

 July 21-22 — At Chicago — General conference of lumber organizations; 



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 ■Inly 26 (tentative) — .\t Portland — Conference of lumbermen; see above.. 



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