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place of business wherever you please. And that is the reason 
why so many corporations go to Delaware to get their charters. 
In my own state for instance, we would have to have the prin- 
cipal office there, if incorporated under the laws of Maryland; 
but an organization of this sort could get a charter in Delaware 
and have their meetings wherever they please. 
Mr. Joslin: Also in this state, Connecticut and quite a 
number of states. 
Mr. Dennis: Yes, but I selected Delaware because they are 
more liberal there than in other states. 
Mr. Joslin took the chair. 
Mr. Clark: The American Fisheries Society has gone along 
unincorporated for 33 years. I have been a member 27 years, 
and Dr. Bean perhaps longer, and it has seemed to be necessary 
here all at once that we be an organized body. Why? ‘That is 
what I would like to know. I would make a suggestion, or 
possibly an amendment to the motion, that instead of the 3 
members of the committee being appointed by the chair to do 
this, that the three be appointed to report at our afternoon ses- 
sion on the question of the advisability of organizing. 
Mr. Douredoure: I will accept the amendment. 
President: (Mr. Joslin in chair.) The amendment is 
that a committee be appointed to report at the afternoon ses- 
sion, or some other session of this body, on the advisability of in- 
corporating. The mover of the first motion accepts the amend- 
ment so the question is now upon this amendment of Mr. Clark. 
Mr. Root: When matters are referred to a committee and 
they report, almost invariably the meeting feels called upon to 
support the report of that committee. Now I do not want them 
to report in favor of a charter; [ do not believe we need it; I 
think we are getting too high toned. I would rather see us go 
on the way we have been going on for years and years. 1 hope 
we are not afraid of being assessed to pay our treasurer. 
(Laughter) I do not see the necessity of having a charter; it 
involves considerable trouble and expense. I think the matter 
