meeting deficiencies of income of the association, and for such additional investigations and publications as may be determined by said Board of Directors. ACT OF INCORPORATION At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association, held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 14, 1885, the following resolution was passed: Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to secure articles of incorporation for the National Educational Association, under United States or state laws, as speedily as may be. N. A. Calkins, of New York; Thomas W. Bicknell, of Massachusetts, and Eli T. Tappan, of Ohio, were appointed such committee. Under the authority of the resolution quoted above, and with the approval of the committee, and by competent legal advice, the chairman obtained a CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION We, the undersigned, Norman A. Calkins, John Eaton, and Zalmon Richards, citizens of the United States, and two of them citizens of the District of Columbia, do hereby associate ourselves together, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of General Incorporation, Class Third, of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia, under the name of the "National Educational Association," for the full period of twenty years, the purpose and objects of which are to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States. . . . . To secure the full benefit of said act, we do here execute this our certificate of incorporation as said act provides. In witness whereof, we severally set our hands and seals this 24th day of February, 1886, at Washington, D. C. NORMAN A. CALKINS. [L. S.] [L. S.] [L. S.] Duly acknowledged before Michael P. Callan, notary public in and for the District of Columbia, and recorded in Liber No. 4, Acts of Incorporation for the District of Columbia. 1881.-ATLANTA, GA. JAMES H. SMART, President. 1882.-SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. W. E. SHELDON, Secretary. 1883.-SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. 1884.-MADISON, WIS. THOMAS W. BICKNELL, President. 1886.-TOPEKA, KAN. N. A. CALKINS, President. 1887.-CHICAGO, ILL. W. E. SHELDON, President. 1888.-SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 1889.-NASHVILLE, TENN. ALBERT P. MARBLE, President. 1890.-ST. PAUL, MINN. J. H. CANFIELD, President. 1891.-TORONTO, ONTARIO. R. W. STEVENSON, Secretary. 1893.-CHICAGO, ILL. (International Congress of Education.) ALBERT G. LANE, President. ALBERT G. LANE, President. 1895.-DENVER, COLO. NICHOLAS M. BUTLER, President. 1896.-BUFFALO, N. Y. NEWTON C. DOUGHERTY, President. I. C. MCNEILL, Treasurer. 1897.-MILWAUKEE, WIS. CHARLES R. SKINNER, President. 1898.-WASHINGTON, D. C. J. M. GREENWOOD, President. |