NBWTA Report 1903-013
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20 21 V.—NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The National Executive Committee shall be called together just before the Annual Council to consider business relating to the Council, and also just after, chiefly to consider business arising from the Council. The Report of the For this last Committee no Agenda is necessary. National Executive Committee shall be printed for the Council ; Meeting, and distributed on the first day. Srein audents of Departments shall be ex-officio Members of the National Executive Committee. WORLD'S W.C.T.U. VI.—AFFILIATION WITH The federation fee to the World’s W.C.T.U. shall be one penny per member, to be paid by the local affiliated Societies. half- VII—‘ Y” DEPARTMENT. The Hon. General Secretary of the Y Department shall be recognized as an officer of the Association, and shall therefore be an ex-officio Member of the Executive Committee, with the same voting ower as other officers. In order to assist the Hon. General Secretary and to make the Y . work more systematic, a committee of representative Y Members shall meet in London monthly, or oftener, at the call of the Secretary, to This Committee shall be consult on plans and methods of Y work. Retiring Members elected yearly at the Annual Meeting of the Y’s. eligible for re-election. VIII.—VICE-PRESIDENTS. in the Temperance cause, Members workers Prominent N.B.W.T.A., may be chosen to fill the office of Honorary Presidents, to be nominated by the National Executive of the Vice- Committee and elected yearly by the Council. X.—REPORTS. Superintendents’ Reports to the Council shall be written, and shall Reports of County Unions should not exceed one thousand«words. words, and should be sent to the Hon. Corres- ponding Secretary two weeks before the Council, to be embodied in her report. XIL—SUPERINTENDENTS. Departments shall have but one Superintendent. No Superin- tendent shall appoint any permanent Associate or Lecturer for her Department without bringing the names before the Sub-Committee for approval. be XII.—REPRESENTATION ON THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Section 1.—Any County, the aggregate number of Members in which is not sufficient to entitle it to representation on the National Executive Committee, may, by the vote of delegates duly appointed by the Branches in that County, at a meeting con- vened for the purpose, unite with a neighbouring County or Union, and so secure representation. Section ii.—E.Lection.—Each County or Union shall elect its own Representative or Representatives by ballot at an Annual Meeting composed of Delegates from each branch in the County or Union, at the rate of one Delegate for every 25 or less members. Branches which have made no return of member- ship shall not be eligible to vote at the Election Meeting. Vacancies shall be filled up by the County or Union in which they occur. This Annual Election Meeting shall be called by the Secretary of the County Union. If no County Union exists, it shall be called by the Secretary of the Branch in the County containing the largest number of Members, unless arrangements shall be made by this largest Branch with the Secretary of some other Branch to fulfil the duty. The Secretary must state on the Call that the meeting is for the purpose of electing Representatives on the National Executive Committee. Section iii,—INFORMATION.—It shall be the duty of Headquarters duly to inform the Secretary of each Union, or of the largest Branch IX.—LITERATURE. No Superintendent of Department shall issue leaflets, or any Literature bearing the impress of our Association, without receiving the sanction of a Literature Committee appointed for the purpose by the Sub-Committee. not exceed one hundred Before taking public action, all plans of Superintendents must laid before the Sub-Committee and be endorsed by them. in the County, as to the number of Representatives to which that County or Union is entitled. The calculation shall be based on the membership as returned by the Branches on November 3oth of each year. For election purposes each Branch must be counted in with the County in which it is situated. Section iv.—Nomination.—Each Branch in a County or Union may nominate the number of Representatives to which that County or Union is entitled, and no more. No nomination may be made without the consent of the person nominated. These nominations must be sent at least one month before the Annual Election Meeting to the Secretary calling that meeting. Section v.—Mobe oF Votinc.—All voting for Representatives on the National Executive Committee must be by ballot. Section vi.—AFFILIATION.—All branches in Unions claiming the above Representation must be affiliated direct to the National Association at Headquarters.* * Manchester N.B.W.T.A. and Birmingham Unions, having was formed, are exempt from this rule. existed as Unions oe the |