A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held on the first day of the annual meeting at 10:30 A.M. The first regular meeting of the new Board of Directors shall be held as soon as practicable and within twenty-four hours after the close of the last session of the annual meeting, the place and time of the meeting to be announced in the printed program. The Board of Trustees shall hold its annual meeting at some convenient time and immediately following the meeting of the new Board of Directors referred to above in this section. Special meetings of the trustees may be called by the chairman, and shall be called on request of the majority of the Board of Trustees. Due notice of all meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be given to every member of the board by the secretary thereof.

ARTICLE VIII-PROCEEDINGS

SECTION 1. The proceedings of the meeting of the Association, the Council, and the departments shall be published under the direction of a committee consisting of the President, the First Vice-President, and the Secretary, the First Vice-President acting as chairman of the committee; provided, That in the opinion of the Executive Committee the funds of the Association warrant the publication. Each member of the Association shall be entitled to a copy of the Proceedings. Associate members must make written application to the Secretary on or before November 1 for a copy in order to obtain it. Corresponding members, and active members whose dues are paid, will receive the published Proceedings without written application.

SEC. 2. No paper, lecture, or address shall be read before the Association or any of the departments in the absence of its author, without the approval of the President of the Association or of the departments interested, nor shall any such paper, lecture, or address be published in the Proceedings, without the approval of the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE IX-ELECTIONS, QUORUM

SECTION 1. The certificate of membership, in connection with the official list of active members, shall be accepted as evidence that members are entitled to vote.

SEC. 2. Representatives from twenty-five states and territories shall constitute a quorum in all meetings of active members and of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE X-APPROPRIATIONS

SECTION 1. Unless otherwise ordered by the active members at their annual business meeting, not less than 10 per cent of the gross income of the Association each year shall be set aside for such educational investigations and studies as may be ordered in accordance with Section 5 of Article III. 5

ARTICLE XI-AMENDMENTS

SECTION 1. These by-laws may be altered or amended at the annual business meeting of the active members by unanimous consent, or by a two-thirds vote of the active members present if the alteration or amendment shall have been substantially proposed in writing at the annual business meeting next preceding the one at which action is taken; due announcement of the proposed action shall be made in the annual published Proceedings.

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

NOW KNOWN AS THE

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES

CERTIFICATE

of Acceptance of Charter and Adoption of By-Laws under Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906.

We, the undersigned, Nathan C. Schaeffer, the presiding officer, and Irwin Shepard, the Secretary of the meeting of the National Educational Association held at Los Angeles, California, on the 10th day of July, 1907, said meeting being the annual meeting of the Association held next after the passage of an act of Congress entitled "An Act to Incorporate the National Education Association of the United States,"

Do hereby certify, that at said meeting held pursuant to due notice, a quorum being present, the said Association adopted resolutions of which true copies are hereto attached, and accepted the charter of the National Education Association of the United States, granted by said act of Congress, and adopted by-laws as provided in said act and elected officers; and the undersigned pursuant to said resolutions

Do hereby certify that the National Education Association of the United States has duly accepted said charter granted by said act of Congress, and adopted by-laws, and is the lawful successor to the National Educational Association.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto signed our names this 20th day of August, 1907. NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, Presiding Officer IRWIN SHEPARD, Secretary

VERIFICATION

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE ACTIVE MEMBERS, JULY 10, 1907

1. Resolved, That the National Educational Association hereby accepts the charter granted by an act of Congress entitled "An Act to Incorporate the National Education Association of the United States," passed June 30, 1906, and that the President and Secretary of this meeting be authorized and directed to execute and file with the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia a verified certificate showing the acceptance by the Association of the charter granted by said act.

2. Resolved, That the proposed by-laws of which notice was given at the annual meeting of the Association held on July 6, 1905, which are printed in full in the journal of said meeting, be and the same are hereby adopted to take effect immediately.

3. Resolved, That the Association adopt as its corporate seal a circle containing the title "National Education Association of the United States," and the dates "1857-1907." 4. Resolved, That the Association do now proceed to elect officers, and to organize under the charter granted by the act of Congress.

1907.

Filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, September 4,

CALENDAR OF MEETINGS

NATIONAL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

1870-CLEVELAND, OHIO

DANIEL B. HAGAR, President.
A. P. MARBLE, Secretary.
W. E. CROSBY, Treasurer.

NAME CHANGED TO

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

CARROLL G. PEARSE, Superintendent of Schools.....

GUY POTTER BENTON, President, University of Vermont.

MARTHA STROMBERG, School No. 22.....

WAITMAN T. BARBE, Professor of English, University of West Virginia.
BURR W. TORREYSON, University of Arkansas....

HELEN MARSH WIXSON, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
L. R. ALDERMAN, State Superintendent of Public Instruction..
AGNES E. HOWE, State Normal School.....

ADA VAN STONE HARRIS, Assistant Superintendent of Schools.
AMELIA C. FRUCHTE, First Assistant, Central High School..
CORNELIA S. HULST, English Department, Central High School.

JAMES M. GREENWOOD, Chairman.

J. STANLEY BROWN..

ROBERT J. ALEY, Secretary.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Durham, N.H.
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Boise, Idaho

Milwaukee, Wis.
Burlington, Vt.
Baltimore, Md.
Morgantown, W.Va.
Little Rock, Ark.
Denver, Colo.
Salem, Ore.
San José, Cal.
Richmond, Va.
St. Louis, Mo.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

JAMES Y. JOYNER...

EDWARD T. FAIRCHILD.

EDWARD T. FAIRCHILD.
CARROLL G. PEARSE.
GRACE M. SHEPHERD
JAMES M. GREENWOOD.
GEORGE B. COOK...

DURAND W. SPRINGER.

Durham, N.H..

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President.....

First Vice-President.
Treasurer..

Chairman, Board of Trustees.

Member by Election.

Secretary...

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Directors ex officio

EDWARD T. FAIRCHILD, Durham, N.H.
CARROLL G. PEARSE, Milwaukee, Wis.

Durham, N.H.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Boise, Idaho

Kansas City, Mo.
Little Rock, Ark.

Ann Arbor, Mich.

GRACE M. SHEPHERD, Boise, Idaho
JAMES M. GREENWOOD, Kansas City, Mo.