FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



Done at the City of Springfield this 27th day of Feb- 

 ruary, in the year of our Lord, one thousand 

 [seal] eight hundred and ninety-one, and the Inde- 

 pendence of the United States the one hundred 

 and fifteenth. I. N. Pearson, 



Secretary of State. 



STATE OF ILLINOIS, 



SANGAMON COUNTY. 

 SS. 



To Isaac N. Pearson, Secretary of State: 



We, the undersigned, Perry J. England, Jas. A. Stone 

 and Albert N. Draper, citizens of the United States, propose 

 to form a corporation under an act of the General Assembly 

 of the 'State of Illinois, entitled, "An Act Concerning Cor- 

 porations," approved April 18, 1872, and all acts amendatory 

 thereof ; and for the purposes of such organizations, we hereby 

 state as follows, to-wit: 



1. The name of such corporation is. The Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. 



2. The object for which it is formed is, to promote the 

 general interests of the pursuit of bee-culture. 



3. The management of the aforesaid Association shall 

 be vested in a board of three Directors who are to be elected 

 annually. 



4. The following persons are hereby selected as the 

 Directors, to control and manage said corporation for the 

 first year of its corporate existence, viz : Perry J. England, 

 Jas. A. Stone and Albert N. Draper. 



5. The location is in Springfield, in the County of 

 Sangamon, State of Illinois. [Signed,] 



Perry J. England, 

 Jas. a. Stone, 

 Albert N. Draper. 



STATE OF ILLINOIS, 



county of SANGAMON. 



I, S. Mendenhall, a notary public in and for the county 

 and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that on this 26th day 

 of February, A. D. 1891, personally appeared before me. 

 Perry J. England, James A. Stone and Albert N. Draper, to 

 me personally known to be the same persons who executed 

 the foregoing certificate, and severally acknowledged that they 

 had executed the same for the purposes therein set forth. 



In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 

 seal the day and year above written. 



S. Mendenhall, 

 [seal] Notary Public. 



