The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19
The Annual Session of the Grand
Court That Will Be Held
in Watsonville.
GRAND oFFICERs-DELEGATEs
Preparations to Receive the Visitors.
Important Amendments to the Con-
stitution Will Be Offered.

The eighth annual session of the Grand
Court of California of the Foresters of
America will assemble in Watsonville,
Santa Cruz County, on Tuesday, May s.,
and be in session for several days.
The people of Watsonville have made
great preparations for the event and have
prepared a grand programme for the
entertainment of the grand officers and
the delegates On Tuesday there will be a
reception and parade. on Wednesday a
grand entertainment will be given to the
delegates, on Thursday there will be ball
and on Friday banquet will be rendered
the grand officers and delegates. The
session will close on Saturday.
Quite number of amendments to the
constitutions and laws of the Grand Court
will be offered at the session. These in
clude the following propositions:
To have biennial instead of annual sessions
TO have such meetings held only once in four
years in the same town and city; to have Off
GERS continue to discharge the duties of their
office, even after resignation, until the sue
cessor shall have qualified and been installed;
to provide for the appointment of a member
of the executive committee to preside and act
in the absence or disability of both the chief
and the sub-chief ranger to provide for the
appointment of district deputies under certain
conditions; to provide that the executive coun-
Gil shall not borrow any money without the
consent of the ma ajority of the courts in the
juris sdiction to provide for the Wishing OF each
court in the jurisdiction first during August
and September and during February and
March amendments as TO appeals; to provide
that mileage shall be paid to but one delegate
from any court, the one receiving the highest
number ofyotes, providing such delegates at
tend from distance not less than thirty miles /;
to provide for determination OF the records and
correspondence of other Grand Courts le-
ceived by the grand secretary, this work to be
ed hv 10 IlT11ff n
denee; to provide that any member of the
order who has served three successive years
and has performed his duties according to the
laws of the order shall be known as honorary
deputy grand chief ranger at large; to pro-
vide that neither the executive committee,
nor any subordinate court shall give or author
ize the giving or lending of the credit of the
order in aid of any person, association or cor
poration, or pledge the credit in any manner
fpTthe payment of the liabilities OF any tndi-
svs<tuSl or association or corporation; to sub
stitute Roberts Manual Tor Cushing's Rules of
Order; providing for the elections held in the
subordina<e courts; to strike out the paragraph
which declares that any financial secretary
or treasurer who has served three consecutive
years in such office shall be entitled to all the
rights privileges and honorS of past chief
ranger; TO permit members of the order to be-
come sureties on bonds of officers; TO increase
the bonds OF treasurers of subordinate courts
10 $3.50; to provide for the disposition of funds
of courts; to provide that all applications for
membership shall be made TO the court or
courts located in the city, town or village in
of the order desirous of admitting him, pro-
viding that members need not appear in per-
son for reinstatement; to provide that any
financial member may apply to any physician
of the order for free medical and surgical treat
ment.
There are in all sixty-two proposed
amendments which are to be considered
and acted upon. A number of these have
been before other courts but they have
always been rejected.
The following is a list of the grand Off
GERS of the Grand Court:
Fred c. Hensley, P. G. C. R., San Francisco;
Rufus B. Harmon, P. G. C. R., Sacramento;
Lewis Thorne. P G. C. R.. Los Angeles; John
J. Cordy, P. G. C. R., San Francisco; Henry
Ryan P G. C. R., San Francisco; C. P. Rendon,
P G. C. R., Stockton; A. Orfila, grand ranger,
Los Angeles; K. B. Vellage, grand sub-chief
ranger Golden Gate: S. A. White, grand treas
urer, San Francisco; C. H. Bremen, grand sec
retary, Alameda; Sol Peiser, grand recording
secretary, San Francisco; J. S. W. Saunders,