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UNITED  STATES  PHARMACOPOEIAL  CONVENTION. 
PROPOSED  AMENDMENTS  TO  CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS. 
The  following  amendments  to  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws 
are  recommended  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  adoption  by  the 
Convention  at  Washington,  May  11,  1920. 
Words  to  be  deleted  are  enclosed  in  brackets  and  words  to  be 
added  are  printed  in  italics: 
CONSTITUTION. 
Article:  II. 
MEMBERSHIP. 
Section  1.  The  members  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeial 
Convention,  in  addition  to  the  incorporators  and  their  associates, 
shall  be  delegates  elected  by  the  following  organizations  in  the  man- 
ner they  shall  respectively  provide :  Incorporated  Medical  Colleges 
and  Medical  Schools  connected  with  Incorporated  Colleges  and  Uni- 
versities, Incorporated  Colleges  of  Pharmacy,  and  Pharmaceutical 
Schools  connected  with  Incorporated  Universities,  Incorporated 
State  Medical  Associations;  Incorporated  State  Pharmaceutical 
Associations,  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  [and]  the  American  Chemical  Society, 
the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  and  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Boards  of  Pharmacy:  provided  that  no  such  organization  shall 
be  entitled  to  representation  unless  it  shall  have  been  incorporated 
within  and  shall  have  been  in  continuous  operation  in  the  United 
States  for  at  least  five  years  before  the  time  fixed  for  the  decennial 
meeting  of  this  corporation. 
Section  2.  Delegates  appointed  by  the  Surgeon-General  of  the 
United  States  Army,  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States  Navy, 
and  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States  Marine-Hospital 
Service,  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  the  Secretary  of  Commerce 
and  Labor,  the  Association  of  Official  Agricultural  Chemists,  the 
Association  of  State  and  National  Food  and  Dairy  Departments, 
the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  [and]  the  National 
Dental  Association,  the  American  Drug  Manufacturers'  Association, 
the  United  States  Division  of  Customs,  and  the  University  of  Havana, 
and  by  the  organizations  not  herein  before  named  which  were  ad- 
mitted to  representation  in  the  Convention  of  1900,  shall  also  be 
