Fourth Semi- Annual Meeting of the California 

 Avocado Association, Held in Auditorium of 

 Normal Hill Center, Los Angeles, 

 California, May 18-19, 1917 



Dr. H. J. Webber, President 



T. U. Barber, First Vice-President 



Charles Silent, Second Vice-President 

 Charles D. Adams, Secretary 

 C. P. Taft, Treasurer 



MINUTES OF THE SECOND ANNUAL AND THE FOURTH 

 SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING 



AFTERNOON SESSION, MAY 18 



The meeting was called to order by the president, Dr. H. J. Web- 

 ber. The minutes of the Third Semi-Annual meeting were read and on 

 motion were approved as read. The president stated that the directors had 

 found it desirable to appoint a slightly later date for this meeting than the 

 time named in the By-Laws cind that it would be well for the Association 

 to confirm this action and legalize the meeting. The following resolution 

 offered by J. E. Hoff, was presented and carried: 



Resolved that this meeting of the California Avocado 

 Association held in Los Angeles, May 18 and 19, under ar- 

 rangements made by the Board of Directors, be declared the 

 regular annual May meeting of the Association. 



The following amendments to the By-Laws and the following new 

 By-Law were recommended by the president in behalf of, the Board of 

 Directors and were carried by two-thirds majority of members present on 

 motion duly made and seconded. 



Amendment to Section XI of By-Laws 

 That Section XI of By-Laws be changed to read as follows: 



Meetings 



The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held at 

 some convenient period during May of each year, the time and 

 place of such meeting to be designated by the Board of Direc- 

 tors; special meetings shall be called by the president with the 

 approval of the Board of Directors as occasion may require. 



New By-Law No. XII. 

 Amendments 



These By-Laws may, on the recommendation of the 

 Board of Directors, be changed or amended at any regular 

 annual meeting of the Association by a two-thirds vote of all 

 members present at such meeting. 



