ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND 



LAWS OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATION 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 



WHEREAS, at a meeting of the American 

 Forestry Association (a voluntary associa- 

 tion organized in the city of Cincinnati and 

 state of Ohio in 1882), duly called and held 

 on the 20th day of December, A. D. 1892, it 

 was 



Resolved, That the resident members of 

 the Executive Committee of this Association 

 in the city of Washington, District of Co- 

 lumbia, be, and hereby are, constituted a 

 committee with full power to take all action 

 which they may consider necessary to be- 

 come a body corporate under and by virtue 

 of the acts of Congress relating to the 

 District of Columbia in such case made and 

 provided : 



Now, therefore, by virtue of and in pur- 

 suance with the foregoing resolution and 

 the action of said Committee, duly had in 

 that behalf: 



Know all men by these presents, That we, 

 the undersigned, each of whom is over 

 twenty-one years of age and a citizen of the 

 United States, and a majority of whom are 

 citizens of the District of Columbia, being 

 desirous of associating ourselves and those 

 associated with us as aforesaid, for the pur- 

 pose of converting the American Forestry 

 Association into a body corporate in accord- 

 ance with the acts of Congress relating to 

 the District of Columbia, in such cases made 

 and provided, do hereby certify as follows : 



First. The name or title by which this 

 corporation shall be known in law shall be 

 "The American Forestry Association." 



Second. That the term for which it is 

 organized is twenty (20) years. 



Third. That the objects of the organiza- 

 tion are the discussion of subjects relating 

 to tree-planting, the conservation, manage- 

 ment, and renewal of forests, and the cli- 



matic and other influences that affect their 

 welfare; the collection of forest statistics, 

 and the advancement of educational, legisla- 

 tive, or other measures tending to the pro- 

 motion of these objects. It shall especially 

 endeavor to centralize the work done and 

 diffuse the knowledge gained. 



Fourth. That the number of Directors of 

 this organization for the first year shall be 

 seven. 



IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have sever- 

 ally set our hands and seals this 25th day of 

 January, 1897. 



(Seal) EDWARD A. BOWERS, 

 (Seal) GARDINER G. HUBBARD, 



(Seal) Jos. C. HORNBLOWER, 

 (Seal) BERNARD E. FERNOW 

 NATHL. WILSON, 

 GEO. P. WHITTLESEY, 



(Seal) 



(Seal) 



(Seal) SAM. MADDOX. 

 District of Columbia, ss: 



I, Frank D. Blackistone, a Notary Public 

 in and for the District of Columbia, do 

 hereby certify that on this 25th day of Jan- 

 uary, A. D. 1897, before me personally ap- 

 peared Edward A. Bowers, Gardiner G. Hub- 

 bard, Joseph C. Hornblower, Bernard E. 

 Fernow, Nathaniel Wilson, Geo. P. Whittle- 

 sey, and Samuel Maddox, to me personally 

 well known and known to me to be the 

 persons whose names are signed to the fore- 

 going and annexed certificate of incorpora- 

 tion, and did severally acknowledge the same 

 to be their act and deed, and that they and 

 each of them executed the same for the 

 purposes therein set forth. 



IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto 

 set my hand and affixed my official seal this 

 25th day of January, A. D. 1897. 



(Seal) FRANK D. BLACKISTONE, 

 Notary Public for the District of Columbia. 



BY-LAWS 

 (Revised January 14, 1909) 



ARTICLE I 



Name 



ARTICLE II 

 Object 



The name of this Association shall be The object of the Association is to pro- 



'The American Forestry Association." mote the preservation, by wise use, and the 



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