The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-26
The Jackson Plan.

OF this organization are 10 LILO
American cotton growers for their mu-
tual benefit and protection, and to gath
err and disseminate statistics and lnior-
nation useful to its members.
Art. 2. No one shall be IL member OF
this association unless he is an active
grower OF cotton, a lessor OF land or a
furnisher of supplies for that purpose.
Art, 3. This association is formed
for one wear, and every member there
of is bound by the terms thereof until
Jan. 1, 1896.
Art. 4. This agreement is not to be
binding upon the slgners thereof until
it is signed 10y the planters OF at least
thr%ee-fourth of the cotton acreage in "
per cent of the cotton growing counties
in each of the cotton growing states,
which fact to be determined upon by
the national committee hereinafter pro-
vided for.
Art. 5. Each member hereof binds
himself to subscribe. and to pay the
SAM II easn hs county committee
wien this agreement is declared opera
tive, 2 cents for every acre OF land cui-
fivated by him in cotton during the
wear 1894; one-half of the fund produce
ed by these subscriptions to be retained
by each county committee for local pur-
poses, and the other half shall be trans
mitted to the national executive com
mittee for general purposes.
Art. 6. Every member OF this OrgaDlza-
ton solemnly contracts and binds him.
self to plant and cultivate ia the year
1895 not more than three-quarters OF the
number of acres of cotton that he plant
ed and cultivated during the year 1894,
and hereby authorizes and empowers
the county committee OF his county and
their authorized agent to enforce this
agreement as they mag elect. This OBJ
LEGATION shall be construed to extend to
all lands controlled by any member
hereof directly or indirectly.
Art. Z. Every member hereof binds
| and obligates himself to deliver to his
county committee, between the 10Th
and 25th Of June, tie year of 1895, q
statement of the humber Of acres OF
cotton then under cultivation on the
premises, planted or controlled by HIM,
and the condition thereof.
Art. s. The signers OF this agree
inert in each county shall meet at tue
county seat on the first Monday in
| March, 1895, and elect IA county COM
mittee OF seven cotton planters to serve
for one year. The signers shall also,
at the same time and place, elect the
county delegates 10 the State conven-
ton to be held on the the third Monday
in March, 1895, for the purpose OF elect
ing the State delegates to the national
executive committee. Each county
committee shall have power to make
rules and regulations for its govern
ment, conforming to this instrument or
to the regulations of the national cOm-
mittee. None of its members shall re-
ceive any compensation, except travel
ing expenses, and it shall pay the trav-
cling expenses Of the delegates to the
State convention. They shall be au-
thoriZed to employ "a Secretary aud to
fix his salary. Every county committee
is absolutely prohibited from contract
ing any debt in excess of its cash on
hand, or to execute aDy note, bond or
other promise to pay money.
AIT. 8. Each county shall have in
the State convention one delegate for
every 1000 bales of cotton and fraction
thereof produced therein during the
census year 1890. This representation
to be based upen the best attainable
statistics Of the crop of that year.
Art. 10. The national executive COM
mittee shall be composed of the nation
al president, who shall be ex-oficiO
chairman OF the presidents of the State
associations, and OF members elected by
each State convention, held at the cap
ital of each State on the third Monday
in March, 1896. Each cotton growing
State shall be entitled to one member
in the national executive committee fol
every 200,0 900 bales of cotton and frac-
ton thereof produced in it during the
year 1890, as shown by the figures of the
United States census report, and, to
avoid controversy, the representation OF
the cotton growing States in the said
convention is hereby fixed as follows
North Carolina 8, South Carolina 4
Georgia 6, Florida /, Alabama 4, Missis.
sippi 6, Tennessee 2, Arkansas 4, Louis.
lana 5, Texas 10, Indian Territory i. A
representation from seven States shall
constitute a quorum.
Art. II. The national committee
shall meet in the city of New Orleans
on the first Monday in April, 1895, and
shall Immediately proceed to examine
and inquire whether this agreement is
signed by such a portion of the Ameri.
Can cotton growers as to make it bind.
ing, as provided in Art. 4. 1t shall
make proclamation of its conclusion
and it's decision on this question shall
be final and conclusive.
Art. 10. The national committee shall
have power and authority to make by
laws, rules and regulations for its own
|! SVbSIGbICn1 anu loi lIC SOtCIu uCht
aud regulation of this organization, and
for the conduct of its business; to en-
ploy clerks and agents and to fix theil
compensation !; to fix a permanent l0ca-
ton for the establishment of its office
to pay a salary to its Secretary and
Treasurer aud to fix the amount there
Of, and to pay the travelling O. penses of
its members.
Art. IS. No member Of the national
committee except its Secretary and
Treasurer shall receive any compensa-
ton except travelling expenses. Said
committee shall have no power to create
any debts in excess Of the cash actually
in its treasury at the time the debt is
created, and shall he absolutely prohib-
tied from issuing any note, bond or 9TH
er promise to pay.
Art. "A. The national committee
shall have the power during the month
OF December, 1896, to set on foot some
plan for continuing this Organization
for the future and to take the sense of
it's members as to whether the organiza-
ton shall be SD continued. The said
cause this association to be regularly
Incorporated, under the laws of such
State as they may select.
Art. 10. The president of this asso-
citation and the State presidents are
hereby charged with the duty OF circu-
lating these articles of the association
for signatures in every county in the
States named in Art. 10, and OF making
the efforts necessary to make this plan
a success, and are authorized and re-
quested to solicit voluntary snbscrip-
tlons for this purpose.
Art. Is. The forul of membership