Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-11
UNION Ex-PR1soNERs OF WAR.
The Order for Their Reunion Here During
Grand Army Week.

The Order for Their Reunion Here During
Grand Army Week.
In addition to the encampments of the g..
A. r. and Union Veterans Union there will be
held during "Grnnd Army week" next month
the twentieth annual convention Of the National
Association Of Union ex-Prisoners of War. For
several months past the association, which num-
bers many thousands, has been making extern
sive preparations for. the coming convention,
and it will be the most largely attended one in
the history of the association. The members
will meet here those with whom they not only
fought shoulder to shoulder, but who were with
them while suffering and starving in the prison
pens Of the south.
For the information Of members Of the aso-
citation, and also for the information Of all
other Union ex-prisoners of war. President
stephen NJ. Long Of the association has issued
the circular in which it Is stated that the G. A.
r. encampment has arranged q most compre-
hensive system of reunions during the week to be
held on the Grand Army place white Lott
directly south Of the presidential mansion.
There will be commodious tents assigned to
Union ex-prisoners Of war, in which the head
quarters of the national association will be
located, and whore the secretary or an assistant
will be in attendance from Monday, September
19, 1892, ready to give Union ex-prisoners Of
war any information in regard to the national
association which they may desire. All ex-
prisoners are requested to regfster their names
as soon as they arrive to facilitate comrades
finding them.
The annual convention Of the National Asso-
citation will be held in Circuit Court room,
United States court house Getty halD, on We'd
nesday, September q, 1892, at 10 O'Clock am.
Local associations, which have not yet done
so, should at once elect delegates and alternates
and provide for their presence at the conven-
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and profitable meeting of the association.
Local associations that have made q report
Of their condition and are not in arrears for
dues are entitled to representation in the
national association, in the ratio Of one dele
gate for every fifteen members in good stand
ing, and one additional delegate for final frac-
ton OF more than one-half OF that number.
Provided, however, that each local association,
whatever it numbers, is entitled to at least one
delegate. All local association presidents, for
the time being, are entitled to sit as delegates,
but no proxy or substitute can act for them.
Delegates must be furnished with credentials
signed by the president and secretary Of their
associations, and where the same has not
already been done copy should be forwarded
to the secretary of the national association as
soon as possible after receiving this circular.
Secretaries Of local associations should i'm
mediately make report Of all members. officers
and delegates, and cause to be RENTED to the
national association the per capita tax for 1892,
at the rate of % cents for each member Of their
association in good standing
1t is desired to call particular attention to
the fact that by the provisions Of the constitu-
ton all associations in arrears for reports and
dues are excluded from representation in this
convention.
There are a number Of local associations
which. from q scattered membership. lack of
interest, and other causes have fallen in arrears
for reports and dues. All such are urged to
call meeting and take the necessary steps to
secure representation In this convention, as
matters of very great importance will come up,
and we need large and united membership in
order to succeed in our aims.
All Union ex-prisoners, whether delegates or
not. are most cordially requested to attend at
Washington, and help make it the largest and
best ex-prisoners' reunion since the war.
The secretary will have with him at Washing
ton full line Of badges, state pins and prison
slides, where comrades desiring, may order the
same.
Until that time, for all matters relating to the
national association or reunion, address Maj.
l.. P. Williams, secretary and treasurer, box
227, Washington, D. C..