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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION 



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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS ^ 



OF THE— 



Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association 



CONSTITUTION 



Adopted Feb. 26, 1901. 



ARTICLE I— Name. 



This organization shall be known as 

 the Illinois State Bee- Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, and its principal place of 'busi- 

 ness shall be at Springfield, 111. 



ARTICLE U— Object. 



Its object shall be to promote the gen- 

 eral interests of the pursuit of Bee-Cul- 

 ture. 



ARTICLE III— Membership. 



Section i. Any person interested in 

 Apiculture may become a member upon 

 the payment to the Secretary of an an- 

 nual fee of one dollar ($i.oo). (Amend- 

 ment adopted at annual meeting, No- 

 vember, 1905) : And any affiliating As- 

 sociation, as a body, may become mem- 

 bers on the payment of an aggregate 

 fee of twenty-five cents (25c) per mem- 

 ber. 



Sec. 2. Any persons may become hon- 



orary members by receiving a majority 

 vote at any regular meeting. 



ARTICLE IV.—OMcers. 



Section i. The officers of this Asso- 

 ciation shall be President, Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Secretary and Treasurer. Their 

 terms of office shall be for one year, 

 or until their successors are elected and 

 qualified. 



Sec. 2. The President, Secretary and 

 Treasurer shall constitute the Executive 

 Committee. 



Sec. 3. Vacancies in office — by death, 

 resignation or otherwise — shall be filled 

 by the Executive Committee until the 

 next annual meeting. 



ARTICLE V — Amendments. 



This Constitution shall be amended 

 at any annual meeting by a two-thirds 

 vote of all the members present — thirty 

 days' notice having been given to each 

 member of the Association. 



BY-LAWS 



ARTICLE I. 



The officers of this Association shall 

 be elected by ballot and by a majority 

 vote. 



ARTICLE II. 



It shall be the duty of the President 

 to call and preserve order at all meet- 

 ings of this Association ; to call for all 

 reports of officers and committees; to 



put to vote all motions regularly second- 

 ed, to count the votes at all elections 

 and declare the results; to decide upon 

 all questions of order; and to deliver 

 an address at each annual meeting. 



> ARTICLE IIL 



The Vice-Presidents shall be num- 

 bered respectively, First, Second, Third, 

 Fourth and Fifth, and it shall be the 



