WILLIAM E. HARVEY Actuary Insurance Dep't..... St. Louis.

CHAS. A. WAILEst....Insurance Commissioner..... Annapolis.

MASSACHUSETTS.

JULIUS L. CLARKE*... Insurance Commissioner.... Boston.

MICHIGAN.

SAMUEL H. Row......Commissioner of Insurance... Lansing.

AUGUSTUS F. HARVEY.Actuary Insur'ce Dep't.......St. Louis.

OLIVER PILLSBURY....Insurance Commissioner.....Concord.

NEW JERSEY.

HENRY C. KELSEY....Secretary of State..... ...Trenton.

NEW YORK.

GEORGE W. MILLER... Superintendent Ins. Dep't.... Albany.

* Mr. Clarke, of Massachusetts, Mr. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Shepherd, of the District of Columbia, being obliged to return home before the General Statute was acted upon, did not participate in the recommendation of the convention.

Julius L. Clarke, insurance commissioner, of Massachusetts; G. W. Smith, insurance commissioner, of Kentucky; J. F. Hartranft, auditor general, of Pennsylvania; Samuel H. Row, commissioner of insurance, of Michigan; James Williams, auditor of state, of Ohio.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

On Preparation of Blanks for Company Returns-Messrs. Kelsey, Row, Harvey, and Williams.

On Assets and Investments-Messrs. Paine, Clarke, and Gillespie.

On Rate of Mortality; Rate of Interest; for the Calculation of Premiums and Net Valuation, and Surrender-Charge or Value of Life Policies; Re-insurance Liability on Fire and Marine Policies; Uniform Designation of different kinds of Policies-Messrs. Smith, Pillsbury, Harvey, and Skeels.

Taxation, Deposits, Fees-Messrs. Breese, Spencer, Caldwell, and Bacon.

Dividends, Expenses, Appointment of Attorneys-Messrs. Harvey, Berry, Strait, and Alfriend.

Miscellaneous Questions-Messrs. Skeels, Strait, Gaines, and Russell. Legislation-Messrs. Smith, Pillsbury, Hartranft, Row, and Skeels. To revise the General Insurance Law-Messrs. Kelsey, Pillsbury, and the President and Secretary, ex officio.

JOINT STATISTICAL COMMISSION.

TO PREPARE THE NEW UNITED STATES MORTALITY TABLE (AS
SELECTED BY THE CONVENTION).

Insurance Officials — Insurance commissioner of Massachusetts; superintendent of insurance of New York; superintendent of insurance of Missouri; insurance commissioner of New Hampshire; insurance commissioner of Kentucky.

Actuaries-Elizur Wright, Massachusetts; Sheppard Homans, New York; D. Parks Fackler, New York; Edwin W. Bryant, for Connecticut; William E. Harvey, for Illinois.

Managers of Life Companies-President Mutual Life insurance company, New York; president New England Mutual Life insurance company, Massachusetts; president Mutual Benefit Life insurance company, New Jersey; president Connecticut Mutual Life insurance company, Connecticut; president Penn Mutual Life insurance company, Pennsylvania; president Northwestern Mutual Life insurance company, Wisconsin; president National Life insurance company of the United States.

CONSTITUTION.

ART. I.-An Association, by the name of the National Insurance Convention of the United States, is hereby formed by the officers having charge of the Insurance departments of their respective States, for the purpose of consultation on matters pertaining to their general superintendency.

II. In each State where no such department exists, the Governor shall have the right to appoint any other State officer as a member of this Convention; provided, that no member shall be connected with any insurance company as officer, agent, or otherwise.

III.-The State officers in charge of Insurance affairs shall also have the right to depute a person eligible under the foregoing rule to represent them, in the event of their not being able to be present personally at any meeting.

IV.—There shall be only one member from each State.

V. The officers shall be a president, vice-president, secretary, and an executive committee of seven, of which the president and secretary shall be members ex officio; and all shall be chosen by ballot at each annual meeting, and hold office until others are elected.

VI. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at all meetings of the Convention; or, in case of his absence, such duty shall devolve upon the vice-president.

It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep the records of the Convention, conduct its correspondence, supervise the printing of its proceedings, and, generally, to attend to and promote the interests of a more efficient and uniform system of governmental Insurance supervision in the United States. The secretary shall devote himself to these matters in the interim between the annual sessions of the Convention, and receive an annual salary to be fixed by the executive committee.

The executive committee shall have the general oversight and direction of affairs, and shall make proper general arrangements for facilitating the work of the Convention; and, in case of a vacancy in the offices of president and vice-president, shall elect a temporary president.

VII. The annual meeting shall be held in the city of New York on the third Monday in October.

VIII.-The general rules for the government of the Association at its meetings shall be those ordinarily adopted by deliberative assemblies, and each state and district shall have one vote.

IX.-These rules may be amended or annulled, and new ones adopted, at any meeting of the Convention.