Revised Constitution Of The Patriotic Order Of The United Sons Of America PDF Download

Excerpt from Amendments to the Constitution of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: Proposed May 1, 1893, and the Draft of a Revised Constitution, Proposed by the Committee on Revision, Appointed in Pursuance of the Resolution of the Annual Congress of the National Society, April 30th, 1892 The Committee on Revision of the Constitu tion, appointed in pursuance of the resolution of the Annual Congress of this Society, held April 30, l892, have the honor to rep'ort: That upon March 21 they agreed upon a mu'rbber of amendments and prepared the draft of a revised Constitution, which was duly promulgated by the Secretary General to the members of the Congress; that, upon May I, 1893, at the Annual Congress, held pro forma in the city of New York, to comply with the law of the Society, a number of addi tional amendments were submitted by various State Societies and members of the Congress, which were, by vote, referred to the Committee on Revision of the Constitution, to be reported back to the Congress with the Committee's own recommendations; and that this Committee, in order to Simplify the work of the Congress, has considered and carefully digested the various amendments, and has accepted several of themas its own, either in substance or verbatim, and have incorporated them in a revised draft of the Constitution. Which is now hereby submitted in lieu of the Committee's previous report. The Committee proposes the amendments indicated in its following report and will move their adoption at the adjourned Congress of the National Society, to be held at Chicago, June I6, 1893. All of the amendments Offered May I, 1893, are appended hereto, verbatim, for such action as the Congress may deem proper to take in the premises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.