Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-27
Constitution Of the Iowa sanitary
COnnmiSsfOx.

The following is the full report of the Com
mittee on Organization of the State Sanitary
Convention, held in Des Moines last week.
DR.. McGugin, from the Committee on Or
ganization, submitted the following report:
To the Sanitary Contention
GENTLEMEN AND LADIES Your Commit
tee to whom were referred the resolutions and
petitions embodying propositions for State
Sanitary organization, beg leave to report that
they have carefully considered the various
plans submitted to their action, and unani.
mously concur in recommending the adoption
Of the following Constitution as the basis oil
such organization.
In submitting this Constitution to the &C.
ton Of the Convention, your committee desire
to call attention to tho principles, by them
deemed important and indispensable, which
they have endeavored to secure in the plan
thus proposed:
FIRST, A State Sanitary organization, EN-.
braclng the whole of Iowa in its collection Of
supplies and aid for all our soldiers in the dis.
bursements of its benefaction.
SECOND, A full and equitable representation
of all the Local Sanitary Societies of the
State.
THIRD, Responsible control and executive
action.
FOURTH, Strict accountability of each and
all of the officers to the constituency whose
servants they will be.
We, therefore, respectfully submit the fol.
lowing for your consideration:
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE l. This association shall be known
as the Iowa Sanitary Commission.
ART 2. This Commission shall co operate,
as far as practicable, with the United States
and Western Sanitary Commissions.
ART 8. This Commission shall be composed
of one member from each Local Sanitary or.
ganization in the State, such members to be
elected by the respective societies for such
periods as such organizations shall designate.
ART. 4. The officers of this Commission
shall be aPresident, six Presidents, being
one from each Congressional District, Re-
cording Secretary, corresponding Secretary,
Ia Treasurer, and Board of Control, to be
composed of six members, one from each
Congressional District.
ART. 8. The above officers shall be elected
by this Convention, and shall serve until the
next annual meeting, when their successors
shall be chosen to serve one year.
ART. 6. The duties of the above executive
officers shall correspond with their respective
positions, and the Board of Control shall
have the direction of all the affairs of the
commission, and supervisory control Of all
the executive officers, subject 10 the action Of
the commission at its regular or special meet
ings.
ART. Z. The Treasurer of the commission
shall give such security for the proper dispo.
sition of all funds entrusted to him or her as
the Board of Control shall require.
ART. 8. All moneys shall be disbursed by
the Treasurer only under the direction of the
Board of Control, on orders issued by the
President and countersigned by the Record
ing Secretary.
ART. 9 The Board of Control shall hold
its regular meetings at least once in tn: ee
months, at which time the Executive officers
shall present full report of their operations,
with specific statements of receipts and DIS
bursements, which reports shall be published,
under the direction of the Board, in the
various newspapers of the State
ART. 10. The annual meetings OF this com
mission shall be held in the city of Des
Moines, on the first Wednesday of June Of
each year. Special meetings may be conven-
ed by the Board of Control whenever they
deem the Sanitary interests of the State to
REQUIRE it; and such call shall be obligatory
on said Board whenever it is requested in
writing, to issue it by the Presidents of thirty
of the local societies represented in this COM
mission.
ART. II. That two or more State Agents
shall be appointed to visit camps and hospi-
tails, and attend to the Sanitary interests OF
our soldiers in the field.
ART. 10. This Constitution may be altered
or amended at any regular or special meeting
of the Commission, notice of the proposed
changes having been furnished to the Record
ing Secretary in writing, and by him made
pubic at least three months previous to the
meeting at which action shall be had thereon.
Your Committee also present the following
resolution, and recommend its adoption:
Rssolved, That this Convention recommend
the establishment of Soldiers Homes at such
points in the State as will afford gratuitous
comfort and assistance to such of the soldiers
az NAV REQUIRE protection in going to and
from their homes upon furloughs or discharge.
All of which is respectfully submitted, by
DE-. D. g. MoGuGIN. lat District.
MRs. DR. MARSH,
EDWARD RUSSELL, "a n,str,ct
Mrs. F. HUMPHREY,
e. q, NORRIS, O, n,.tr,.+
Mas, DIR. LArHRoP, w
D. @. WORTH, Ar n;.+.,.+
Mrs. Col. STONE, "
Mrs w W. MAYNARD, sth ni.t-;.t
NRs. ]. H. GRAY,
MISS FREE, 9th District
Committee on Organization.