24. Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
supposing that we are not a chartered organization. J am very 
strongly of the opinion that we should be chartered. I would 
like to take the sense of the meeting as to that, and so I offer the 
resolution that the chair may appoint a committee to prepare 
articles of incorporation and secure a charter, and move its 
adoption. 
Motion seconded. 
Mr. Dennis: I should be very glad to prepare your articles 
without charge and make them applicable to any state in the 
union. 
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Mr. Root: I just wish to ask for information, if we got a 
charter would it require a location and place of business, an 
office and a meeting at a particular point? We are a sort of a 
peripatetic organization, having no state headquarters, and I 
suppose these legal gentlemen can tell whether we can obtain a 
charter for a moving body such as we are. I presume we can. 
Mr. Douredoure: I cannot tell. J am not a lawyer—I am 
a poor merchant. 
Mr. Joslin: What is the precise question ? 
President: ‘The precise question is can we be a legally 
organized body with a charter and not have a legal place of 
business or office ? 
Mr. Joslin: I can only answer for a few of the states in 
which I have had occasion to examine the laws, but generally 
speaking the laws of the different states require that we shall 
have a principal place of business, and at least one annual meet- 
ing there, and I would think that at least when you wanted to 
amend your constitution or by-laws you would have to go to 
that particular place to do it. I wish you to understand how- 
ever that an insurance policy does not go with this opinion. 
Mr. Dennis: It is required by every state that I have had 
any connection with, in the securing of a charter, that the prin- 
cipal place of business shall be in a city in that state, but under 
the laws of Delaware you can get a charter and a company there 
will maintain an office for you and you can have your principal 
