1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



303 



forwarded thera to ns for insertion in 

 these columns. He presents them as 

 follows : 



Mr. Editor: — At the recent meet- 

 ing of the United States Bee- Keepers 

 Union, held in Buffalo, N. Y., the 

 following amendments to the Consti- 

 tution were proposed by A. B. Mason, 

 in accordance with Article X of the 

 Constitution : 



CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES RECOMMENDED 



That Article III, Section 1, be am- 

 ended so as to read : "Any person who 

 is in accord with the purpose and aim 

 of this Union, and will work in har- 

 mony with the same, may become a 

 member by payment of one dollar 

 annually to the General Manager or 

 Secretary; and said membership shall 

 expire at the end of one year from 

 the time of said payment, except as 

 provided in Section 8 of Article VI 

 of this Constitution." 



That Article IV be so amended as 

 to read: Section 1. — The officers of 

 this Union shall be a President, a 

 Vice-President, Secretary, and a 

 Board of Directors, which shall con- 

 sist of a General Manager and six 

 Directors who?e term of office shall be 

 for three years, or until their succei?s- 

 ors are elected and quaiitied, except 

 that the term of office of the two 

 Directors having received the small- 

 est number of votes at the time of 

 voting for Directors in March, 1897, 

 shall expire Y>^c. 31, 1897; and that 

 the ter n of office of the two Directors 

 having rectiveii the next largest num- 

 ber of Votes at the said time of voting 

 shall expire Dfc. 31. 1898; and that 

 the term of office of the two Directors 

 having It ceived the largest nuiulier 

 ofvite-at the said time of voting 

 shall ex J ire D c. 31, 1899." 



"Section 2, — The Board of Direc- 

 tors shall choose their own chairman." 



That Section 5 of Article V be am- 

 ended so as to read: " The General 

 Manager and two Directors to succeed 

 the two whose term expires each year, 

 shall be elected by ballot during the 

 month of December of each year by a 

 majority vote of the members voting; 

 and the Board of Directors shall pre- 

 scribe how all votes of the members 

 shall be taken." 



That the words "at the annual 

 meeting," in Section 3 of Article VI 

 be substituted by the words, "When- 

 ever requested by him; to make a re- 

 port at the annual meeting of the Un- 

 ion and whenever requested to do so 

 by the Board of Directors, of all mon- 

 ey received and paid out by him since 

 the last annual meeting." 



That Section 5 of Article VI be 

 amended so as to read: " At the time 

 of sending the ballots to the members 

 for the annual election, he shall send 

 to each member a list of the names of 

 all members, and an itemized state- 

 ment of all receipts and expenditures 

 of the funds of the Union by the 

 Board of Directors and a report of 

 the woik done by said Boaid of 

 Directors." 



That the words " altered or," in 

 Article X, be erased. 



A. B. Mason, /'ec. 



The amendments are now before 

 the New Union's members as they 

 will be presented to be vt)ted upon 

 later on. As all of them were almost 

 unanimously approved at Buffalo, 

 they will doubtless be adopted and be- 

 come a part of the Constitution in De- 

 cember. 



