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Resolved, That these Trustees shall hold office during the period of three years, or until their successors are appointed. They may choose their own officers; adopt all needful rules; meet from time to time, as their is need; fill vacancies in their number occasioned by resignation or disability, during the intervals between the regular meetings of the Council; and adopt such measures to secure the ends of their appointment as seem to them expedient. Not less than four members shall constitute a quorum at their meetings for business, and they shall keep a full record of all such meetings, and report to this body.

At a meeting of the Trustees held at Memorial Hall, Hartford, Conn., Friday, Feb. 4, 1887, the report of the committee appointed by

the National Council, Messrs. Nathaniel Shipman, Elisha Carpenter, and Charles E. Mitchell, of Connecticut, "to prepare by-laws for the Trustees of the National Council," was presented, accepted, and, after amendment, adopted as follows:

BY-LAWS.1

1. The officers of the corporation shall be a president, vicepresident, ten directors, secretary, treasurer, auditor, and a finance committee of five persons, of whom the secretary and treasurer, if members of the corporation, shall be members ex officio.

All these officers shall be elected by ballot, and shall hold their respective offices for the term of three years, unless removed by death, disability, or resignation; that is to say, from the time of their election until the first meeting of the new Trustees appointed from time to time by the National Council at its triennial meetings. All officers, except secretary, treasurer, and auditor, shall be members of the corporation.

2. The duty of the president shall be to preside at the meetings of the corporation and of the directors; to exercise a general oversight of the affairs of the corporation; to execute the instructions of the directors, and to make such suggestions to them as he may deem desirable.

3. The vice-president shall discharge the duties of the president in the absence of that officer.

4. The directors, of whom not less than four shall constitute a quorum, shall have the control, direction, and management of the

'See Minutes of Council, 1886, page 378.

property and affairs of the corporation; shall regulate salaries; shall make rules in regard to the disbursement of money; shall accept devises, legacies, and gifts upon the trusts respectively annexed to them; shall buy, sell, and convey by their attorney appointed for that purpose all real or personal property; shall fill vacancies in their own number and in all offices, the appointments so made to be in accordance with by-law 1, and to continue until the next meeting of the corporation; and shall report to the National Council.

5. The secretary shall keep the records of the corporation, of the directors, and of the finance committee; shall issue all orders on the treasurer, and all notices for any meeting of either body, which notices shall be sent by mail, postage paid, at least ten days before the date of the meetings; shall preserve all important documents; shall conduct the correspondence of the society; shall report annually to the directors, and prepare a report to the National Council for the directors.

6. The treasurer shall invest the funds of the corporation in accordance with the directions of the directors, or, in the absence of such directions, in accordance with the written approval of the finance committee; shall have the custody of such funds; shall disburse the same, in accordance with the rules and votes of the directors; shall keep accurate accounts of his receipts and expenditures, and shall make an annual report to the directors.

He shall give bonds for the faithful performance of his trust for the term of three years, and until another person is appointed treasurer, in such sum as may be ordered from time to time by the directors.

7. The auditor shall annually, or oftener, in his discretion, personally audit and examine the securities belonging to the corporation and the accounts and vouchers of the treasurer, and shall report annually to the directors.

8. The finance committee shall meet at least annually, and more frequently if deemed by them advisable; shall make investments and reinvestments, subject to the approval of the directors; shall authorize all disbursements not specially ordered by the directors or by their rules; shall provide methods for the enlargement of the funds of the corporation; and shall have the immediate and direct management and oversight of the funds and financial affairs of the corporation in the intervals between the meetings of the directors, to whom they shall report annually.

Special meetings shall be held at the time and place named in the call of the chairman.

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Other officers and committees may be appointed as the needs of the corporation may demand, and, in the intervals between the meetings of the corporation, may be appointed by the direct

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A meeting of the corporation shall be held within ninety days after the adjournment of the National Council, in the city of Hartford, Conn., where all meetings of this corporation shall be held, at which the officers for the ensuing three years shall be chosen.

Annual meetings of the directors, for the examination of accounts of the reports of the treasurer, secretary, auditor, and finance committee, for the allotment and distribution of income and for the general work of the corporation, shall be held in the month of September in each year, at such places as the finance committee previously to each meeting shall designate.

Special meetings of the corporation and of the directors shall be held upon the written call of the president or of any two members of the corporation addressed to the president. Such special meetings of the directors shall be held at the place directed by the president.

The secretary shall be always a resident of the State of Connecticut, and the records, when not in use in the meetings, shall be kept always in that State.

11. Any article of these by-laws may be changed or amended by a two-thirds vote of the members of the corporation present at any meeting after the service of one month's notice in writing of the proposed change.

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Provisional committee. - Samuel B. Capen, of Massachusetts; Rev. George H. Wells, of Minnesota; Revs. Henry A. Hazen and Arthur Little, of Massachusetts; Revs. William H. Moore, and Samuel B. Forbes, of Connecticut; Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, of Massachusetts; Rev. James G. Merrill, of Maine; Hamilton A. Hill, of Massachusetts; Revs. Julian M. Sturtevant and Marcus W. Montgomery, of Illinois.

Publishing committee. - Revs. Alonzo H. Henry A. Hazen, of Massachusetts; Revs. Moore, of Connecticut.

Quint, Albert E. Dunning, and
Samuel B. Forbes and Wm. H.

On ministerial relief. - Rev. Frederick A. Noble, of Illinois; Franklin Fairbanks, of Vermont; Francis J. Lamb, of Wisconsin; Walter A. Mahoney, of Ohio; Rev. William M. Taylor, of New York; Rev. George H. Wells, of Minnesota; William E. Hale of Illinois; Rev. Henry A. Stimson, of Missouri; James D. Cutler, of New York; E. H. Baker, of Massachusetts.

On temperance.

Rev. Smith Baker, of Minnesota; William P. Frye, of Maine; Rev. Alvah L. Frisbie, of Iowa; Rev. Edwin B. Burrows, of New York; Eugene Steere, of South Dakota; Samuel B. Shapleigh, of Massachusetts; Rev. C. Fremont Roper, of New Hampshire.

On Christian unity. - Rev. Julian M. Sturtevant, of Illinois; Rev. William D. Hyde, of Maine; Rev. John H. Morley, of Minnesota; Rev. George E. Hall, of New Hampshire; Rev. Reuben A. Beard, of North Dakota.

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On Sabbath observance. Rev. Linus Blakesley, Kansas; Rev. Henry S. DeForest, Alabama; Samuel S. Rogers, Illinois; Rev. Sedgwick P. Wilder, Wisconsin; Rev. Albert H. Heath, Minnesota.

On union with Free Baptists and other denominations. Rev. William H. Ward, New York; Rev. Daniel M. Fisk, Ohio; Revs. Samuel W. Dike and Alonzo H. Quint, Massachusetts; Rev. George E. Hall, New Hampshire; Rev. John H. Morley, Minnesota.

On city evangelization. The training of deaconesses. The institutional church. - Rev. Judson Titsworth, of Wisconsin; Revs. Lewis V. Price and Charles A. Dickinson, of Massachusetts; Rev. Charles S. Mills, of Ohio; Rev. Graham Taylor and William E. Hale, of Illinois; Rev. Eugene G. Updike, of Wisconsin; Rev. L. S. Woodworth, of Rhode Island; William A. Benedict, of Missouri.

AD INTERIM.

On the relations of the benevolent societies to the churches. - Samuel Johnson, of Massachusetts; Rev. A. Hastings Ross, of Michigan; Rev. George R. Merrill, of Minnesota; Rev. Robert R. Meredith, of New York; Rev. Henry Fairbanks, of Vermont; Rev. Charles O. Brown, of California; John G. Haskell, of Kansas; Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, of Connecticut; Rev. Washington Gladden, of Ohio.

On paying expenses of delegates. - Rev. DeWitt S. Clark, of Massachusetts; Rev. John H. Crum, of Indiana; Rev. William A. Robinson, of New York; Thomas E. Booth, of Iowa; Rev. Forrest F. Emerson, of Rhode Island; Rev. Winfield S. Hawkes, of Utah; Rev. Thomas McClelland, of Oregon.

On ministerial standing. Rev. Levi L. Paine, Maine; Rev. Albert H. Currier, Ohio; Revs. George P. Fisher and Arthur L. Gillett, Connecticut; Rev. Charles S. Nash, California; Rev. Hugh M. Scott, Illinois; Rev. William J. Tucker, Massachusetts.

On capital and labor. — Rev. Washington Gladden, Ohio; Rev. Henry Hopkins, Missouri; Rev. John L. Scudder, New Jersey; Pres. David S. Jordan, California; Robert Newell, North Dakota.

On secret and social societies.-A. Lyman Williston, Massachusetts; Revs. Charles A. Blanchard and Edward P. Goodwin, Illinois; Rev. Smith Baker, Minnesota; Rev. Edward Hawes, Vermont.

On marriage and divorce. -Rev. Frederick A. Noble, Illinois; Lyman D. Stevens, New Hampshire; Rev. Charles H. Richards, Pennsylvania; Courtney S. Kitchel, Wisconsin; Rev. William H. Scudder, New York.

On the religious needs of the army and navy. — Rev. E. Lyman Hood, of New Mexico; Major G. R. Baird, United States Army; Rev. Henry M. Ladd, of Ohio; Frederick W. Lyman, of Florida; Rev. Stephen M. Newman, of District of Columbia; Rev. T. Eaton Clapp, of Oregon; Rev. James H. Kyle, of South Dakota.

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On church manual. Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, of Massachusetts; Rev. Henry C. Simmons, of North Dakota; Rev. Dan F. Bradley, of Michigan; Rev. George M. Boynton, of Massachusetts; Rev. William D. B. Gray, of South Dakota: Rev. Edwin S. Hill, of Iowa; Rev. William D. Williams, of California; Rev. A. Hastings Ross, of Michigan.

On prison reform. - Rev. Amory H. Bradford, New Jersey; Rev. William J. Batt, Massachusetts; Rev. August Drahms, California; Rev. Hastings H. Hart, Minnesota; Rev. William H. Warren, Ohio.

On Columbian Exposition. - Revs. James G. Johnson, Frederick A. Noble, and David N. Camp, of Illinois; George W. Barrows, of Maine; Rev. William H. Warren, of Ohio. Revs. Edward P. Goodwin, George S. F. Savage, Simeon Gilbert, Prof. Henry M. Scott, and Willard Scott; and E. W. Blatchford, Esq., all of Illinois.

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