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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 24, 1909. 



knew about it till some time after its 

 passage, though there were as members 

 of that legislature three seedsmen, two 

 of whom were chairmen of important 

 committees. 



Another difficulty is to understand the 

 legal effect of some of these seed bills, 

 some of which are long, ambiguous and 

 involved in legal technicalities and 

 phraseology. It is highly necessary that 

 we should have the aid of counsel who 

 knows about the difficulties under which 

 the seed business is carried on, who will 

 study the question broadly, who will cre- 

 ate and manage the work of legislative 

 information above outlined, and who will 

 judiciously, forcibly and opportunely pre- 

 sent our cause, preferably in the early 

 days of framing legislation or, if neces- 

 sary, in the courts. 



It is not suggested that counsel shall 

 become the sole representative of this 

 association. It seems wise to me that ^ 

 committee of five be appointed by this 

 convention from the meni)3€?s of this 

 association, to which shalr be intrusted 

 the general work connected with seed 

 legislation and all legal questions, guided 

 by the directions of this convention as to 

 policies, and that counsel be retained an- 

 nually under a reasonable retainer. 



Counsel Has Been Retained. 



The Wholesale Seedsmen's League is, 

 as you all know, a corporation closely 

 associated in spirit and in active meas- 

 ures with this association. In fact, this 

 association is a member of the league 

 and has always had the closest and most 

 satisfactory relations with it. Nineteen 

 of the league's twenty-two members are 

 members of our association, and the offi- 

 cers and directors of our association hold 

 similar positions in the league. For the 

 purpose of securing an effective organi- 

 zation to supply the service in legislative 

 affairs above suggested it is most fitting 

 and proper for our association to join 

 with the league in this work, our ideas 

 and objects being identical. 



At a meeting of the board of directors 

 of the league in New York city April 1, 

 1909, to which were invited the officers 

 and members of the executive committee 

 of this association, your president and 

 several members of said committee at- 

 tending, it was unanimously voted to 

 appoint a committee of five, styled the 

 committee on legal affairs, to be com- 

 posed of three directors of the league who 

 shall be members of this association, and 

 the president and a member of the execu- 

 tive committee of this association. The 

 duties of that committee were carefully 

 and clearly stated. 



Curtiss Nye Smith, of Boston, was 

 considered competent to fill the position 

 of counsel to this committee, ->and to the 

 associations, and he was retained from 

 April 1 for one year at a retainer of 

 $1,200 per annum, the expenses and sal- 

 ary to be shared by both associations. 



The duties of this committee and of 

 counsel were fully stated in a circular 

 letter sent in April to all members of 

 both associations, so I shall only briefly 

 state, to refresh your memory, that these 

 duties are to acquire prompt knowledge 

 of bills affecting seed interests introduced 

 in congress or state legislatures, and to 

 oppose unfair or advocate wise legis- 

 lation. Counsel shall collect all seed laws, 

 bulletins and cases, preparing opinions 

 and when asked conducting legislative 

 hearings. Besides advising the officers 

 of the associations, counsel will advise 

 without charge members of both associa- 

 tions on any legal matter pertaining to 



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