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to be responsible for a domestic science meeting at the time of the 

 congressional institute. 



Sec. 4. The president, vice-president, and secretary shall constitute 

 the executive board of the association. 



Sec. 5. The duties of the executive board shall be to look after the 

 business of the association during the year and provide a program for 

 the annual meeting. 



Article VI. 



Section 1. The state association shall hold its annual meeting at 

 the same time and place as the Illinois Farmers' Institute. 



Article VII. 



Section 1. Unless otherwise provided, a majority vote of the delegates 

 present shall decide a question. 



Article VIII. 



Section 1. This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting 

 by a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice having been given 

 at a previous meeting. 



The farmers' institute of Illinois voluntarily aids in supporting the 

 women's institutes, although there is no special provision of law requiring 

 them to do so. This weak part in the Illinois system has been corrected 

 in some of the other states. In Indiana a sum is required to be paid out 

 of the county institute appropriation to the women's auxiliary not to 

 exceed in any year the total receipts from membership dues. In Utah 

 the law provides for a pro rata apportionment for women's institutes, and 

 recognizes them as organizations under the care of the state upon a parity 

 with institutes for men. 



In the province of Ontario, Canada, where institutes for women have 

 been most successful, a grant of $10 per year is allowed to each women's 

 institute upon condition that an equal sum be granted by the county 

 council or municipality in which the institute is organized, or by the 

 local farmers' institute. 



Illinois differs also in her system of women's institutes from the other 

 states in that the entire control of the work for women, both local and 

 state, is in the hands of the women's organization. In the other states, 

 while the local organizations are under the immediate control of the 

 t women, the state department of farmers' institutes has general super- 

 vision over their work, the same as it has over institutes for men. There 

 is no separate state organization or board of control for the women's 

 institutes, but one institute director in charge of both. The latter 

 method of control identifies the women's institute more closely with the 

 general institute system of the state and is for that reason to be preferred.- 



In Indiana when women's auxiliaries are maintained separate and 

 distinct from the county institute organization, and work under separate 

 programs, 'before they can receive aid from the institute fund they are 

 required to report to the president of the county institute the names of 

 those in attendance at their meetings who have paid a membership fee 



