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Appendix II . 



BY-LAWS OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY TOBACCO GROW- 

 ERS, INCORPORATED. 



(1) This association shall be known as The Connecticut Valley Tobacco 

 Growers, Incorporated, duly organized imder chapter 190, revision of 

 1918 of the general statutes relating to co-operative associations. Its 

 principal office and place of business shall be located in the city of Hartford, 

 State of Connecticut, and it shall do business in the States of Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts and elsewhere. 



(2) The nature of the business to be transacted and the purposes to 

 be promoted or carried out by said corporation are as follows: — 



To provide and maintain for its members a selling agency through which 

 they may sell their tobacco and do all things or acts necessary or convenient 

 to make such selling agency efficient in assisting its members in marketing 

 said tobacco; to enlarge and improve the market for Connecticut valley 

 tobacco, and to aid in supplying manufacturers and others with good 

 tobacco at a reasonable price; to assist its members in standardizing, 

 sorting, packing and warehousing their tobacco, and to encourage the 

 improvement of the products which it handles, either by trade-marks, by 

 trade names or otherwise ; to act as agent for its members in the purchase 

 of any supplies which they may require; and to do any other lawful things 

 which may be for the benefit of the members. 



(3) Any local co-operative tobacco growers' association located in this 

 State or in the State of Massachusetts may acquire and hold stock in this 

 association. 



(4) Each local association holding stock in this association shall elect 

 two of its members to represent it in this association. At the annual 

 meeting of this association these representatives shall elect from their own 

 number a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, who shall hold 

 office for one year, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. 

 These representatives shall constitute the board of managers of this asso- 

 ciation. 



(5) In order that this association may have necessary working capital 

 at the beginning of any season, each local association owning the stock of 

 this association shall advance to the treasurer of this association, not later 

 than August 15 of any year, the sum of $1 for each acre of tobacco repre- 

 sented by said local association. 



(6) The capital stock which this association is authorized to issue is 

 $50,000, divided into 500 shares of the par value of $100 each. 



