The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-09
BUSINESS MEMS MERGER.

Constitution and Bylaws of the New
KaIispeIl Combine.
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE /.
The name of this association shall
be The Kalispell Business Mems
Association.
ARTICLE II.
The object of this association shall
be to promote in all legitimate ways
the agricultural, industrial, and COM
mercial interests of Kalispell and
to cooperate with organizations for
the purposes above named.
ARTICLE III.
The officers of this association
shall be a president, vice president
and secretary-treasurer, who shall be
elected at the next annual meeting
elected at the annual meeting to
serve until their successors are
elected and qualified. Regular or
special committees may be appointed
by the president, or may be elected
from time to time as the
association by vote may authorize. A
quorum to transact business at any
regular or special meeting shall be a
majority of the business firms which
are represented by the membership
of the association, either in the form
of signatures of said firms, or in the
form of signatures of individuals
composing those firms. 1t being the
purpose that each firm shall have but
a single vote. A legal act of this as
ISOLATION in order to bind its men,
bers must be carried by a three
quarters majority vote of those firms
present
ARTICLE w.
The annual meeting of this asso-
citation shall be held on the second
Tuesday in January in each year at
8 O'Clock p. m. at any place named
by the secretary-treasurer in the no
tice of said annual meeting. Special
meetings may be called by the presi-
dent or by the secretary, or by any
three members, and the notice of said
special meetings shall be by mail and
state the time and place for the
same
ARTICLE V.
Any proprietor, member of a firm,
or stakeholder in a corporation &C
lively engaged in business in Kalis-
pell or in Flathead county may be-
come a member of this association
by signing the constitution and pay
ing the initiation fee; it being spe-
cially provided that all persons who
have signed the provisional articles
of the association are already mem
bers. Each concern represented in
this association shall pay an initia-
ton fee of one dollar and annual fee
thereafter of one dollar, providing
that where more than one member
of firm is a member of this associa-
ton a single fee shall be sufficient
for all members of that concern.
should the association require funds
for any purpose other than the above
it may be collected from its mem
bership or general public by volun-
tary subscription by persons duly au-
JIOIlZSu NY ILLS CiooOSlIIlOA' ANo e1o
sessment whatever shall be levied on
the membership of the association
except by a three-quarters majority
vote, and such assessment shall be
levied by a special committee elected
for the purpose, who shall prorate
the assessment according to the abil-
ity of each firm to pay as nearly as
possible. The concerns may, If nee
essarily absent from annual or
special meetings vote by giving writ
| ten proxy to some other member OF
this association.
ARTICLE vi.
This constitution may be amended
at any annual meeting without notice
or at any special meeting provided
notice of intention to amend is fully
stated in the call for the meeting.
BYLAWS.
| /. The president of this associa
ton shall preside at all meetings, ap
point all regular or special commit
tees, unless the same are required tc
be elected, and to perform any Other
/ ACT, olu plopOiJ ebo viz SAAA
cial head of the organization.
2. In the absence of the president
the vice president shall perform al
the duties of the president.
8. The secretary-treasurer shall
keep a record of the transactions Of
the association, which shall be known
as the minutes; and the minutes o.
one meeting shall be submitted to the
next meeting and shall be read before
standing approved. Should objections
be raised to the minutes they should
be corrected to represent facts al
that time and thereafter shall not b'
changed. The secretary-treasurer shall
also receive all moneys due the asso
citation and care for the same, ant
shall deliver to his successors al
funds in hand, and vouchers for al
sums expended during his admins
tratiOn Unless otherwise ordered