BY-LAWS. ARTICLE I. All persons applying previous to, on or after the annual meeting in eighteen hundred and seventy (1870) for enrollment, shall pay a membership fee of ten dollars ($10), that the annual dues shall continue to be one dollar ($1), and persons applying for membership shall pay back dues; that all fees and dues are payable to the Recording Secretary, and all money received by him on account of the Society shall be transferred to the Treasurer, and that all money received as fees shall by the Treasurer be added to the Permanent Fund. (See amendment page 7.) ARTICLE II. Money for ordinary expenses of the Society may be expended by the Treasurer upon the warrant of the President. All other expenditures only in pursuance of a vote of the Society. ARTICLE III. The Treasurer will make a report to the annual meeting of all receipts and expenditures, with vouchers. The Recording Secretary shall report to the annual meeting all money received by him, and all transferred by him to the Treasurer. The Corresponding Secretary shall report to every meeting all correspondence of general interest. ARTICLE IV. All questions and resolutions shall be decided by a majority of the members present. But amendments proposed to the Constitution shall be acted upon only at the annual meeting subsequent to the one at which they may be proposed, unless the postponement be dispensed with by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. (See amendment page 7.) ARTICLE V. The order of business shall be as follows: 1. Reading of the journal of the previous meeting. 2. Appointment of committees on business and for nomination of officers. 3. Receiving reports. 4. Current business. 5. Election of officers. 6. Adjournment. ARTICLE VI. If the Society shall, at any meeting, omit to designate the time and place of the next meeting, the President shall, by due public notice, fix the time and place. ARTICLE VII. Whenever any member of the Society is reported to the Corresponding Secretary to have disqualified himself for membership, by reason of dishonorable or vicious conduct, he shall be reported to the President of the Society, who thereupon shall order a court of not less than three members of the Society to investigate the facts and report to the next meeting for the action of the Society in the case. AMENDMENTS TO THE BY-LAWS. FIRST. That article fourth of the By-Laws be amended so as to read: "All questions and resolutions, except amendments to the Constitution, shall be decided by a majority of the members present. But amendments proposed to the Constitution shall be acted upon only at the meeting subsequent to the one at which they may be proposed, and shall require a vote of two-thirds of all members present." SECOND. That any arrears of dues of deceased members may be paid by a relative or friend of a member so as to restore the record of a deceased member, same as provided for restoring the record of a living member who may be in arrears of dues. THIRD. All persons applying on or after the annual meeting of 1889 for enrollment, shall pay a membership fee of ten dollars; that the annual dues shall continue to be one dollar, and that persons applying for membership shall not be required to pay back dues, nor shall they be entitled to receive reports of meetings held previous to 1889, without paying cost of same. The following resolution was adopted at the meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, July 4th, 1872: Resolved, That members of the Society may become life-members on the payment into the treasury of the sum of thirty-five dollars, providing any fee which has been paid by them previous to this time be credited against this life-membership fee. After such life-membership is secured by any member, he shall be relieved from paying the annual dues as provided by the ByLaws. The following resolution was adopted at the meeting in Springfield, Illinois, October 15th, 1874: Resolved, That any member who shall be in default of payment of any part of his membership fee at our next annual meeting, or any member who shall be in arrears of dues at any time after our next annual meeting to the amount of five dollars, shall have his name dropped from the published list of members; any member being so dropped, shall have his name restored at any time, when full payment of arrears for fees and dues have been made. PREFACE. The Corresponding Secretary issued the following notice: HEADQUARTERS, SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, To Members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee: The twenty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee will be held in the city of St. Louis, on Wednesday and Thursday, November 18th and 19th, 1896. The annual address will be delivered by Major-General O. O. Howard. LOCAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Colonel Nelson Cole, Chairman. General Jno. W. Noble, V-Chm., Colonel Wells H. Blodgett, General D. C. Coleman, Colonel L. Cass Forsyth, Colonel Jno. B. Gandolfo, Captain Geo. K. Hunter, Captain Julius Pitzman, Captain Chas. G. Warner, Captain W. R. Hodges, Secretary, Room 20, Laclede Building. This executive committee will perfect its own local organization, and give due and timely notice of the details of their arrangements. Commissioned officers who have at any time served with credit, in either the Army or Department of the Tennessee, are entitled to membership and are earnestly requested to attend. Members of kindred societies are cordially invited to be present. The wives and daughters of our members, and all invited guests, are by resolution of the Society entitled to seats at the banquet. CORNELIUS CADLE, Recording Secretary, A. HICKENLOoper, Corresponding Secretary, Cincinnati, O. G. M. DODge, President. The local committee issued the following notice: HEADQUARTERS LOCAL COMMITTEE, } The twenty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee will be held at St. Louis, Wednesday and Thursday, November 18th and 19th, 1896. The following are the local committees: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Colonel Nelson Cole, Chairman. General John W. Noble, Vice-Chairman. Captain Loyd G. Harris, Lieut.-Colonel L. Cass Forsyth, General Guy V. Henry, Major Leo Rassieur, |