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the votes for directors as returned to the secretary of the 

 board of directors by the respective local branches." ^ 



The advisory council conducts all investigations of 

 charges of neglect of duty on the part of officers or direc- 

 tors; fixes the amount of commission to be charged on the 

 members' milk; fills vacancies on the board of directors 

 occurring between elections; and proposes amendments 

 to the constitution for adoption by the stockholders. 



The second unique feature in the organization of the 

 Dairymen's Cooperative Sales Company is the method 

 of conducting the annual election, which is held on the 

 second Saturday of June of each year at the regular meet- 

 ing places of the respective locals, where the members 

 vote for directors of the company. The vote is there re- 

 corded "in duplicate by tellers appointed by the local 

 branches, one copy to be retained by the local, the other, 

 properly certified by the president and secretary of the 

 local, to be returned to the secretary of the board of direc- 

 tors, who shall meet with the tellers appointed by the 

 advisory council on the fourth Saturday of June at the 

 principal office of the company, when the entire vote shall 

 be counted and the (5) persons receiving the highest 

 number of votes shall be declared elected directors for the 

 ensuing year." ^ 



The Dairymen's League, Incorporated, is a New Jersey 

 organization' incorporated in 1907 with 1 100,000 of capital 

 stock divided into shares of the par value of $2.50. The 

 capital stock was increased in 1919 to $500,000 to ac- 

 commodate additional members.^ Shares are held on the 



1 Dairymen's Price Reporter, Jan. 20, 1920, p, 2. 

 ' Ibid., p. 13. 



' Sometimes incorrectly called the New York Dairymen's League because of 

 the fact that it operates largely in New York State. 

 * Dairymen's League News, Jan., 1919, p. 7. 



