The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-11
AS
Constitution and By Laws of the
Minnesota State Farmers
Alliance.
AS Amended January 10th 1894.
ARTICLE III.

ARTICLE Ill.
MEETINGS OF THE STATE ALLIANCE.
Sec. /. The annual meeting shall
be held at such place as is fixed upon
by vote at the preceding annual meet
ing. The date of holding it shall be
on the second Tuesday of January OF
each year, the Executive Committee
to designate the place for the annual
meeting.
Whenever the Executive Commit
tee deem it to the best interests, to
call a special meeting of the State
Alliance, it may be done by a two
thirds vote of the Executive Com.
mittee.
Sec. 2. The Executive Committee
shall make all necessary preparations
for the annual meeting of the State
Alliance and shall also prepare an
order of business, and rules and regu-
lationS for the government of the
same; jubject to the approval Of the
State Alliance when it meets.
Sec. 3. The session of the State Ali
ance shall be held with closed doors,
and non but it's officers and mem
bers, as prescribed in this constitu'
ton, shall be permitted to be pres.
ent, unless otherwise ordered by a
vote of the Alliance.
Sec. 4. Where any person is acting
as an officer of the State Alliance, at
any annual meeting of the same,
and he is not reelected to any
other Office, he shall have the
right to remain in such meeting and
participate in debate, until the close
of the same.
Sec. 5. No person shall be eligible
to any office in the State Alliance or
any County Alliance, unless he is a
member, in good standing, in some To-
cal alliance in this State.
Sec. 6. All deputy, county OF dis
trict lecturers, and persons publish
ing distinctively Alliance newspapers,
shall have the right to seats in the
State Alliance, and to participate in
debate, but not to vote, unless they
are delegates from a local Alliance.
Sec. L. No person shall be elected
a delegate, or alternate, by any local
or county alliance, to the State
Farmers Alliance. unless he is a
practical and operative farmer, and
lives upon a farm at the time of his
election.
Sec. 8. No person shall be admit
ted a delegate to the meetings of the
State Alliance from any county or To-
cal Alliance until he presents a Gre
Dental or certificate showing that he
is a member of a local Alliance, and
that he has been duly elected a dele
gate or alternate, by a regularly
chartered Alliance in good standing.
No proxies will be admitted. Pro
vided, that no County Alliance shall
be entitled to send a delegate to the
State Alliance unless there shall be
three Alliances insaid county having
all their per capita tax paid in full to
the State Alliance.
Sec. 9. In case there are local ALI
ances, that cannot afford the expense
of sending a delegate to the annual
meeting, they may elect as their dele.
COm0 m0nOhor nf on o11;oroo -
good standing, residing in the same
or another county, to represent them
in the State Alliance; but no such
delegate shall represent more than
three alliances.
Sec. 10. The a%lternates elected by
any local or county alliance shall be
entitled to admission to all sessions
of the State Alliance, and to partic-
ipate in debate, but shall not vote
unless the delegate is absent from
the hall.
Sec. II. At the commencement of
each annual meeting of the State AL
the delegates from each coun-
ty represented shall assemble and
elect one of their number chairman
and another secretary, who shall hold
their places until the next annual
meeting. The person so elected as
chairman shall constitute a member
the committee on credentials of
said annual meeting: and he shall
proceed at once, upon his election, to
the credential cards of all
delegates present from his county.
md submit the same to the assem-
oled delegates of the county. If they
Ire satisfied that the persons named |