General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

GENERAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

G. A. IRWIN

Tenth Meeting, April 10, 10:30 A. M.

G. A. IRWIN in the chair. After the opening hymn, Elder E. J. Waggoner led in prayer. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.4

Elder D. T. Bourdeau took his seat with the delegates, representing the French-speaking people. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.5

The Chair: You will notice from the Bulletin that the Conference adjourned pending the consideration of the report. The Committee on the More Equal Distribution of Funds will be before us this morning. We have just come to No. 5. But one member of the committee who has something to say upon this recommendation, is compelled to be absent this morning, and would ask, as a favor that the Conference defer the consideration of this number until some future meeting. Are you willing to grant the request of the member? GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.6

The request was granted. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.7

The Chair: Are there any other committees prepared to report? GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.8

The Secretary: Brother Chairman, the Committee on Counsel met this morning, and selected the following named persons as a nomination for a committee on the Distribution of Laborers: I. H. Evans, N. C. McClure, L. R. Conradi, G. A. Irwin, L. Johnson, I. J. Hankins, W. H. Thurston, W. C. White, H. Shultz, L. A. Hoopes, W. A. Spicer, S. F. Svensson, Dr. David Paulson, and the superintendents of the eight General Conference Districts; making a committee of twenty-one. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.9

The Chair: You have heard the report of this large committee. What is your pleasure? GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.10

A. O. Burrill: I move that we accept it. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.11

F. H. Westphal: I second it. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.12

The question was called for and carried. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.13

The Chair: Are there other committees ready to report? GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.14

C. C. Lewis: The Committee on Education is prepared to make a partial report. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.15

A. G. Daniells: The Committee on Organization, I think, is prepared to report. Dr. Kellogg is a member of that committee. He has a great deal on his hands to-day, and would like very much to have that report come up first for consideration. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.16

The Chair: I presume it would make no difference to you to hold back the report. Then we will listen to the report of the Committee on Organization. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.17

A. G. Daniells: The committee requested me to present the report. The number of recommendations starts as “five” in this report. We have presented four recommendations previously. The report is as follows:— GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.18

“5. That the General Conference Committee be composed of representative men connected with the various lines of work in the different parts of the world. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.19

“6. That the General Conference Committee, as thus constituted, should take the place of all the present boards and committees, except in the case of the essential legal corporations. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.20

“7. That the General Conference Committee consists of twenty-five members, six of whom shall be chosen by the Medical Missionary Association, and nineteen by the General Conference. That five of these members be chosen with special reference to their ability to foster and develop the true evangelical spirit in all departments of the work, to build up the ministry of the word, and to act as teachers of the gospel message in all parts of the world: and that they be relieved from any special business cares, that they may be free to devote themselves to this work. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.21

“8. That in choosing this General Conference Committee, the presidents of the Union Conferences be elected as members. GCB April 11, 1901, page 185.22

“9. That the Medical Missionary Board be authorized to fill any vacancy which may occur in the representation from the Medical Missionary Association. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.1

“10. That the General Conference Committee be empowered to organize itself, and to appoint all necessary agents and committees for the conduct of its work. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.2

The Chair: You have heard the reading of the report. What is your pleasure concerning it? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.3

Voice: I move its adoption. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.4

Voice: I second it. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.5

The Chair: It has been moved and seconded that this report be adopted. It is now open for remarks. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.6

Voice: I call for another reading of the first recommendation. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.7

The Chair: The Secretary will read the first recommendation. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.8

Recommendation No. 5, as printed above, was then read by the Secretary. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.9

C. M. Christiansen: How are these representative men to be chosen? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.10

The Chair: That will appear further on in the report. The Secretary will read the next recommendation. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.11

The Secretary (reading): “6. That the General Conference Committee as thus constituted should take the place of all the present boards and committees, except in the case of the essential legal corporations.” GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.12

A. O. Burrill: I would like to inquire if that really does away with our Foreign Mission Board? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.13

A. G. Daniells: I will say, in answer to this, that the question of disposing of the Foreign Board was not fully discussed, and therefore no formal decision was reached by the committee. You will notice the recommendation has an exception in it—“except in the case of the essential legal corporations.” The Foreign Mission Board is a legal corporation. Whether it is an essential corporation to the advancement of the work, is a question that the Committee on Organization has not discussed. It has talked it over a little, but it has not discussed it, or come to any vote on it, and is not prepared to make a recommendation here this morning. In its future work the committee will discuss that question, and come to some decision. It will then be reported to you. But what is true of the Foreign Mission Board is true of all these other legal corporations. Whenever it is thought by you that any legal corporation is not essential to the work, it will be recommended to be discontinued, and steps will be taken to do away with it. But this recommendation does not do away with the Foreign Mission Board. It does not affect it a particle. That all depends upon the decisions to come in the future; and you will then have to say whether the Foreign Mission Board is essential or not. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.14

J. W. Westphal: I do not know that I quite understand the meaning of that resolution. The speaker has just said that it does not affect the Foreign Mission Board a particle; but as it reads there, does it not affect the Foreign Mission Board in all its relations to the foreign mission work, outside of the legal aspect? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.15

A. G. Daniells: In this recommendation, reference is had to the International Sabbath-school Association, the International Tract Society, and the International Religious Liberty Association; International Religious Liberty Association; but it does not yet affect the Foreign Mission Board in any sense, so far as I understand it, and so far as it was discussed by the Committee. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.16

C. W. Flaiz: I would like to ask if there is anything further in this recommendation that will define the prerogatives or duties of the General Conference Committee, if so elected? Will it have supervision of the foreign missionary work? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.17

A. G. Daniells: The prerogatives are not defined. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.18

Watson Ziegler: If I couple the thought in this with a statement made in another clause regarding the General Conference Committee being organized for the furtherance of the gospel in all parts of the field, it seems to me that it would displace the power of the Foreign Mission Board. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.19

A. G. Daniells: So far as the Committee is concerned, we do not see how it will affect the Foreign Mission Board more than the Medical Missionary Board. Both are incorporated associations. No one sees any trouble about the Medical Association, and it seems to me we are off from the point here, because no reference is made to the Foreign Mission Board. We can all take hold of that question when it comes up. It is for you to decide, when a proposition is made to do away with the Foreign Mission Board, whether or not that is the right thing to do. That is not the question we have before us in this recommendation. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.20

F. H. Westphal: It seems to me that when we have that wording there,—“that the General Conference Committee as thus constituted should take the place of all the present boards and committees,”—we can not exclude the Foreign Mission Board. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.21

A. T. Jones: It does not say the Foreign Mission Board. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.22

A. G. Daniells: There is an exception clause—“except in the case of the essential legal corporations.” The Foreign Mission Board is a legal corporation, is it not? Is it essential? We are not discussing this last point. Some other day we may discuss that. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.23

The question being called, the next recommendation was read, as follows:— GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.24

“That the General Conference Committee consist of twenty-five members, six of whom shall be chosen by the Medical Missionary Association and nineteen by the General Conference. That five of these members be chosen with special reference to their ability to foster and develop the true evangelical spirit in all departments of the work, to build up the ministry of the word, and to act as teachers of the gospel message in all parts of the world; and that they be relieved from any special business cares, that they may be free to devote themselves to this work.” GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.25

The Chair: Are there any remarks on this recommendation? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.26

A. O. Burrill: It seems that the Medical Missionary Society selects a certain number of the General Conference Committee, and the General Conference selects the rest of them. It seems as if there is no equality in that. I may not understand it. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.27

R. A. Underwood: If I have the right idea of what follows, it seems that if any meeting of the General Conference Committee is held where important matters are to be discussed, and any of the representatives of the Medical Missionary Association are not present, their board has the power to supply representatives to complete the number. If that would be right, should not the same privilege be granted to other departments of the work? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.28

A. G. Daniells: The point which the last speaker has raised is considered in Recommendation No. 9. Would it not be well to defer discussion on that until we come to it? GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.29

The question that was raised by Elder Burrill is with reference to the question of the Medical Missionary Association electing six members of this committee, and the question was asked: Is that a proper arrangement to make? You will notice that Recommendation No. 8 states this: “That in choosing this General Conference Committee, the presidents of the Union Conferences be elected as members.” Who elects the presidents of the Union Conferences?—The people in their respective Conferences. It seems to be the thought that the Medical Association will select six members to be on this committee, and the eight Union Conferences will select eight men to be members of the same committee. That is to say, This Conference is to recognize those presidents as members of the General Conference Committee. GCB April 11, 1901, page 186.30

G. B. Thompson: I want to say that, personally, I can not vote on such a tremendous recommendation as that, without having five minutes to think about it. I do not understand these recommendations fully; so I would like to have them printed, that I may have them before me to study for at least an hour or two, when I can vote on them more intelligently. I, therefore, move that these propositions first be printed. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.1

A. G. Daniells: I will explain the situation in which we find ourselves: The days are packed full, and everybody is pressed with work. Yesterday we came to a general understanding on three points, but had not finished our work. We had our report, as far as we had gone, printed on little slips, which we intended to hand out; but in continuing our work last evening and this morning, we enlarged these recommendations somewhat, and this disarranged our report, which had been printed; hence we have no printed report to place before you. We are sorry for this. As there was no other special business to come, and so many were waiting for the report of this committee, and as there is a congested state of things in consequence of delay, we ventured to submit these recommendations to you. There is nothing that we wish to rush through, more than to put the Conference in a position to get along with its work. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.2

W. W. Prescott: I do not blame the brethren for wanting this thing to be very clear. I think it due to all the brethren that the committee should say to the delegation that there is nothing hidden in this report. There is nothing aimed at except what is plain on the surface. I think that the whole body should have the benefits of some of the study which the committee has given to it and the purpose for which I arose was to propose that each member should have the benefit of any study that any other member has given to the question. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.3

Here is the general principle upon which the committee acted: First, if this Conference were properly organized, so that all departments of our work were proportionately represented here, we should not bring in this report recommending that the different associations be elected a part of this committee. And that recommendation is not expected to be a permanent recommendation. When this Conference comes to recognize that the medical missionary work, as reported yesterday, is an essential organic part of the work of this message, and recognize it by giving that work its due and proper representation in this Conference, this idea will be wiped out. Therefore this recommendation was made to help this idea. This make-up of twenty-five members was reached in this way: There are now eight General Conference districts. It is recommended that the Medical Missionary Association choose six other members. That would make fourteen. It is recommended that five members of this committee be chosen with special reference to their ability to foster and develop a true evangelical spirit. That is to be the very strength of this work. These are to develop the true evangelical spirit in all departments of the work; to look after the ministry of the word, to act as teachers of the gospel in all parts of the world. That would make nineteen members. It was expected, although it is not here recommended, that the educational work would have a proper representation on the committee of those having had experience in our educational work, and that in the same way our publishing work should be represented by those who have had experience in that work. Now it seems to me that with all this representation on the board, we would have a well-balanced representative board that could carry on the work to advantage. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.4

C. W. Flaiz: I am glad for all these remarks, but I would like to study this question for myself. I believe that there is nothing hidden in this; nevertheless, I believe that this matter ought to be studied over by every delegate for himself. I therefore second the motion made by Brother Thompson. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.5

A. G. Daniells: Is the motion to defer the consideration of the plan, or the action to be taken on it? Do you wish to drop it all here? or would you like to go on and have the matter outlined, and then defer action until we could have it printed? GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.6

G. B. Thompson: My idea was to defer action, yet have the explanations. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.7

The Chair: It is simply to defer action on the report until it can be printed, and be placed in the hands of the delegates. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.8

F. D. Starr: In case new districts were organized outside the territory already organized in the District Union Conferences, how would such new districts be represented in the General Conference? GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.9

H. M. J. Richards: We want to cooperate, and in order to make this report a success, we must have time to consider it, that we may stand shoulder to shoulder in it. I am in favor of this resolution. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.10

The question was called, and carried unanimously. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.11

The chairman of the committee then made further explanations of the report. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.12

A delegate: In the explanation by Professor Prescott, he did not speak of any representation for the Sabbath-school work, the tract society, or the foreign missionary work, in case the Foreign Mission Board should not go on with its work. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.13

W. W. Prescott: That touches a principle which we ought to recognize, and so it is well the question is raised. I do not think it necessary to have an international association of some kind, and then have some member of that association placed on this committee, in order that that work may be represented on the committee. If we were rightly organized, and had been properly educated in the work, there would not be a man here who does not represent the Sabbath-school work and all other departments of the work. Every individual would be a General Conference all by himself; and then when we came together, we would be a General Conference all in ourselves, and would not have to hunt around so much for men to fill special positions. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.14

G. G. Rupert: There has a question arisen in my mind regarding the different nationalities among us. I fear that in this present arrangement these might not be represented on that committee. They might be, but it seems to me that there might be a chance that they would not be. I believe we should be glad to have each nationality at least represented upon the committee, and I would like to ask if that work has been provided for on the committee. GCB April 11, 1901, page 187.15

W. W. Prescott: It is provided for in the Bible. Neither barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, Jew nor Greek; ye are all one in Christ Jesus. It was suggested that I ought to say a word further on the matter previously considered. It was the mind of the committee that in the appointment of the agents and committees for the conduct of the work, there should be those appointed in departmental work, as was set before us in the case of the organization of the Australasian Union Conference, who would give special study to those departments of work. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.1

R. C. Porter: I believe that is the right principle. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.2

A. G. Daniells: If these general associations are dropped, then the General Conference will have a Sabbath-school department. I suppose they will select the best person they can find in the denomination, to look after that line of work, the details of which must naturally be looked after to keep the work all astir. So with any other line of work that needs special attention. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.3

G. G. Rupert: There is a point in that question I raised. We all agree that we are all one in Christ; but it seems to me, in the question of languages, that some can not properly connect themselves with these different nationalities like others of their own tongue. It seems to me that, relative to the language and their associations, that these nationalities, at least those prominently represented among us, should be represented on the committee. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.4

A. G. Daniells: Recommendation No. 7 has just been under deliberation. No. 8 reads as follows: “That GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.5

in choosing this committee, the presidents of the Union Conferences be elected as members.” That has already been explained. Then that the presidents of the Union Conferences shall be members of the General Conference Committee.” As long as the districts remain districts, they will be provided for in the election of the members. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.6

F. D. Starr: I would like to repeat my question as to how new districts may be formed. How will they be represented? GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.7

A. G. Daniells: I understand that when a new district is formed, its president will be a member of the General Conference Committee. That is what this makes provision for. We have had that to meet in Australasia. When we formed our Union Conference there, provision was made that the presidents of the State Conferences should be members of the Union Conference Committee. At that time we had but three State Conferences. Now we have five; and as the new Conferences have been organized, the provision that was made brought these new men, the presidents, right into the Union Conference Committee. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.8

Voices: Read it again. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.9

A. G. Daniells (reading): “That in choosing this committee, the presidents of the Union Conferences [whether two, or eight, or nine] be elected as members.” GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.10

F. D. Starr: Would that enlarge the committee, make it twenty-six, twenty-seven, or more? GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.11

A. G. Daniells: We would have to adjust that, of course. Either have the committee enlarged or else have fewer other members, fewer persons of the other class; but that could be adjusted when you come to another term. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.12

J. W. Westphal: I would like to say a word further in regard to what Elder Rupert has spoken of, and the reply that was made to him. Now I am certain that in our work we shall have to recognize conditions and circumstances. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.13

It is true that we should be, and I trust that we all are, one in Christ: but while that is true, I believe that we should be careful not to take any step, nor do anything that would in any way help to take away that oneness; but every step that we take, everything we do, should tend in the direction of unifying the work more and more. I believe that is what we have done in recommending different institutions to be represented on the board. Now that principle holds true with reference to the other, just as well as this. And it is a fact that while we are all to represent different departments of the work, I think you will admit that an American or an Englishman who is laboring among the Germans or the Scandinavians can not represent the German or the Scandinavian work, and plan with reference to it as he could if he had someone there who understands that language to represent it. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.14

E. J. Waggoner: I suppose it will come up further when we have the printed slips before us; but I have just been making a partial list of the different languages. We have: English, German, French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, Armenian, Greek, Arabic, Tahitian, Kaffir, Hindustani, Polish, Persian, Bengali, Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, etc. And there are quite a number of other languages, into which the truth has not yet been translated, or in which we have not Sabbath-keepers. Should we have a representative of each of these tongues on the committee, we would have to enlarge it considerably. We would have several times twenty-five. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.15

So far as some of the leading languages being represented, I think it would be impossible to select a committee of twenty-five—that is, as recommended,—to represent the work in all parts of the world, mind you,—without having every leading language that is represented in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination represented on that committee. The leading workers in different parts of the world would represent the leading languages in the country in which they labor; for they must necessarily understand the languages of these fields where they are. So the very wording of the recommendation presupposes that the thing that has been suggested should be carried out. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.16

A. G. Daniells: The next recommendation: “That the Medical Missionary Board be authorized to fill any vacancies which may occur in the representation from the Medical Missionary Association.” That is to say, we make the provision for the Medical Missionary Association to be represented. They select these men; but before we have another Conference, some of these men may die, or the Association may send all six of them out of the country, so that they would not be accessible, to act on the committee. What shall be done to fill their places? The board will select their successors, so that the representation will remain intact. The same provision is virtually made to have all the Union Conferences represented all the time. When the President of the Union Conference is called away to another field, then the board selects a successor, and that man goes on to the General Conference Committee; just the same as it is proposed to do with the medical representatives. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.17

J. H. Morrison asked for a rereading of the last recommendation; his request was complied with by A. G. Daniells. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.18

R. C. Porter asked for the previous recommendation to be reread. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.19

A. G. Daniells (again reading): “That in choosing this committee, the presidents of the Union Conferences be elected as members.” I will explain the way I understand it will be done. In our Union Conference in Australasia, when the Nominating Committee brings in its reports, it reads something as follows: “That the members of the committee be the presidents of State Conferences.” Then it names the remainder of the committee. So when this Nominating Committee for the General Conference shall bring in a report, it will recommend the presidents of the Union Conferences, the six members of the Medical Missionary Association, and then name the remainder. Do you get the idea? And when the vote is taken, they are elected. GCB April 11, 1901, page 188.20

C. W. Flaiz: I do not understand just how this is to work. Suppose that after the Conference adjourns, these various members of the Conference Committee depart to various parts of the field. For instance, the Union Conference presidents go to their fields, and scatter out over the world; the Medical Missionary Board send their representatives off to various parts of the world; then it becomes necessary that the committee meet together to confer with reference to matters pertaining to General Conference work. They are called together, but it is not possible for all of them to respond. Perhaps the Australasian Union Conference can not send their delegate or their representative, and these evangelistic laborers, who may be scattered in various parts of the world, can not come. Then there are portions of the Medical Missionary Board that can not be there. We understand that the Medical Missionary Board can select men to fill their vacancies by supplying the full number of six, while the rest of the members of the committee are not supplied. Is that the idea? GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.1

A. G. Daniells: I do not understand that this makes provision for the Medical Missionary Board to appoint six men to come to act upon a committee meeting. That is not the idea. The Medical Missionary Board will only appoint a successor to a man who can not reasonably be a member of the General Conference Committee. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.2

W. C. White: I think we can under stand this by considering that there is no vacancy on a committee to be supplied until the man has resigned his position. When a man goes to a field in the United States, or out of the United States, or takes up a line of work which disqualifies him to be an efficient member, he is expected to resign, whether he be a medical missionary member, or whether he be a general member; and when he resigns, and leaves a vacancy on the committee, that vacancy must be supplied. When the vacancy is supplied, the new member occupies just the same position as the old member did. If a committee meeting is called, he attends, if he is there to act; if he does not attend, there is no provision made for alternates for any class of members, since they are all on the same footing. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.3

R. C. Porter: I will say that the recommendation about the Medical Missionary Board was special, and the more explanation was given about it because it had not been previously recognized; and therefore this was suggested, which otherwise would come only in the constitution; but this explanation was given because this was special. That makes it clear to my mind, and perhaps it may help others. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.4

R. A. Underwood: It seems to me, with this explanation, if it just simply said in any single term, then the Medical Missionary Association should have the same right to supply its vacancies that the General Conference has, and there would be no discussion about it at all. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.5

A. G. Daniells: That is the aim. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.6

R. R. Kennedy: It does seem to me that it is not necessary to discuss the matter at all, since the General Conference Committee can supply a vacancy, and will. The only point with the Medical Association is this: They understand their business, and of course they can supply the vacancies on their part of the committee more intelligently than can the general body. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.7

The Chair: We will have the next recommendation read. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.8

“10. That the General Conference Committee be empowered to organize itself, and to appoint all necessary agents and committees for the conduct of its work.” GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.9

A. G. Daniells: “To organize itself.” This, you all understand, means that this Committee will have power to appoint its officers—its chairman, its secretary, its treasurer, and other necessary secretaries and committees, to do the departmental work. This General Conference Committee can select its Sabbath-school secretary, religious liberty secretary, the field secretaries, and whatever subcommittees it may think best to give special attention to lines of work. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.10

H. C. Basney: Would it not be taking the power to elect the president of the General Conference out of the hands of these delegates, if this committee can elect its own chairman? If this is the way it is to be done, it appears to me as though more power will be concentrated in this committee than ever before. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.11

S. B. Whitney: I rise to a question of privilege. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.12

The Chair: State it. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.13

S. B. Whitney: We have been exhorted with reference to the preciousness of our time; that each of us should be quick to hear, but slow to speak. I appreciate the interest of these brethren in these questions; but, brethren, we shall save time and labor for ourselves, if we think a little more before we speak! [Delegates: Amen! Amen!] GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.14

The Chair: The slips have been printed, and will be distributed immediately after adjournment. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.15

Voted to adjourn. Benediction by Elder R. M. Kilgore. GCB April 11, 1901, page 189.16

G. A. IRWIN, Chairman.
L. A. HOOPES, Secretary.