FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 1 75 



Prrsident Eddy : We will now listen to the report of the 

 committe on the exhibit of implements. 



Air. A. R. Yale presented the rci)()rt on Ix-half of the com- 

 mittee. See page 184. 



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President Eddy : There was a special committee appointed 

 to consider the snbject of membership. Is that committee 

 ready to report? 



Prof. A. G. Gulley : Mr. President : Your committee have 

 looked into the matter carefully, and in the first place we have 

 an amendment to ofifer to Article 3 of the Constitution of the 

 Society, which now reads. "Any person may become a member 

 of this society by paying into the treasury the sum of one 

 dollar per annum. If the annual fee remains unpaid for two 

 years,»the membership shall cease and the name be taken from 

 the roll." The amendment we propose is as follows: "Any 

 person may become a member of this Society by paying one 

 dollar into the treasury, and the membership shall cease at the 

 end of the current year." So you fellows that have paid a 

 dollar for 1906 are out after the first of January next, or will 

 be if we pass this. Here is another amendment we propose to 

 ofifer : "Any person may become a life member of the society 

 by the payment of the sum of ten dollars at one time. All 

 such money to form a permanent invested fund of the Society." 

 Now nearly all societies have something of this sort, but this 

 Society has never had anvthing of the kind. If any man feels 

 he wants to put ten dollars into this society, he can become a 

 life member immediately, and it seems to me that there are 

 plenty of men here that will be glad to do that, and I know 

 we will pick up a good many life members outside the state. 

 Some of our sister societies are depending almost entirely on 

 this sort of a fund, that was accumulated ten years ago or 

 rnore. Now those are the two changes in our rules which we 

 would offer, all under one general head. 



As an addition to the By-Laws, we propose the following 

 article in order to hit those members that are liable to let their 

 memberships run out : "All members whose membership ex- 

 pires under Article 3 of the Constitution, shall be notified of 

 the fact before their names are removed from the roll." 



