tant branch of agriculture which furnishes raw mate- 

 rial for our leading manufacturing industries, regulates 

 our water supply, grows an endless supply of fuel with- 

 out impoverishing the soil, gives to our State an em- 

 bellishment that attracts the most useful citizenship, 

 and fosters that diversity of industry which is indis- 

 pensable to progress and contentment in life. 



Article 3. The management of the affairs of the 

 Association shall be in a president, vice-president, a 

 secretary, a treasurer, and six directors, which shall 

 constitute an executive board of ten members. The 

 officers and directors shall be chosen annually and their 

 term of office shall expire upon the election and in- 

 duction into office of their successors. 



Article 4. The expenses of the Association shall be 

 met by membership fees and annual dues. Any per- 

 son may become a member by the payment of one 

 dollar to the treasurer. This membership shall en- 

 title to all the privileges of the Association for one year, 

 and the annual dues thereafter shall be one dollar. 

 One-half of all the fees and dues shall be expended by 

 the executive board for giving information at regular 

 and stated times upon forestry subjects to the members. 



Article 5. The president shall perform the duties 

 usually pertaining to this office, and shall at the an- 

 nual meeting present to the Assocaition a message out- 

 lining his views with regard to the future plans and 

 duties of the Association. The vice-president shall 

 perform the duties of the president in his absence. 

 The secretary shall keep the records of the Association' 

 and shall have in charge the correspondence and shall 

 edit all circulars, bulletins and pronouncements of the 

 Association; he shall make an annual report of the 

 doings of the Association to the membership at least 

 one month before each annual meeting. The treas- 

 urer shall collect all membership fees and dues and re- 

 ceipt for the same; he shall be custodian of all the funds 

 of the Association and shall disburse the same upon 

 order executed by the secretary. He shall be pre- 

 pared to make a report of the condition of the treasury 

 at any time when requested by the president or board 

 of directors. The board of directors shall have charge 

 of the affairs of the Association, with full power to 

 act ad interim. The Board, upon its organization 

 each year, shall select from the membership of the 

 Association a committee on legislation whose duty 

 shall be to formulate plans for proposed legislation 

 and present the same for the approval of the Associa- 

 tion. 



Article 6. The annual meeting of the Association 

 shall convene on the second Tuesday in November in 

 each year, at a place to be determined by the board of 

 directors, provided the first annual meeting after this 

 date of organization shall occur in 1906. 



Article 7. Amendments to these articles of associa- 

 tion may be made at any regular or special meeting, 

 provided notice of purpose and scope of any proposed 

 amendment shall be sent to each member at legist four 

 weeks previous to the meeting which shall act upon it. 



Mr. Garneld, who acted as clerk of the committee, 

 was asked by the chair if the committee had not per- 

 formed the balance of the duties imposed upon it and 

 made recommendations concerning the permanent 

 officers of the Association. He replied that the com- 

 mittee did not wish to take the responsibility of nam- 

 ing a list of officers, but would recommend a number 

 of names to the convention, as appropriate ones to 

 consider in connection with the various official posi- 

 tions. 



