The Grammar School; A Factor in the Social Efficiency-Baker.. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. PREAMBLE. To promote the interest of popular education in the Southern States, by elevating the teaching profession, and securing to all the children the benefits of an efficient public school, the Southern Educational Association adopts the following: CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I.-NAME. This Association shall be known as the Southern Educational Association. ARTICLE II.-MEMBERSHIP. SECTION 1. There shall be three classes of members, namely: active, associate and corresponding. SEC. 2. Teachers and friends of education may become active members by the payment of an enrollment fee of one dollar and the annual dues of two dollars. All others who pay an annual membership fee of two dollars may become associate members. Secretaries of the State Teachers' Associations of the Southern States shall be ex-officio active members. Eminent educators, not residing in the Southern States, may be elected by the Board of Directors to be corresponding members, provided that the number of such members shall at no time exceed twenty-four. Corresponding members shall be entitled to a volume of the annual proceedings without the payment of fees or other conditions. SEC. 3. Active members only shall have the right to vote and to hold office in the Association or any department of it. An active member shall pay the membership fee of two dollars at the time of the annual meeting, or by remittance to the Secretary within three months after such meeting, and shall be entitled to the volume of proceedings without "coupon" or other conditions. Any active member may discontinue membership by giving written notice to the Secretary within three months after any annual meeting, and may restore the same only upon the payment of the enrollment fee of one dollar and the annual dues of the current year or years, as the case may be. Associate members may receive the volume of proceedings in accordance with the usual "coupon" conditions. SEC. 4. The names of active, life and corresponding members, with their respective educational titles, offices and addresses, shall be printed in each volume of proceedings, and the list shall be revised annually by the Secretary of the Association. All members in good standing shall be provided with a volume of proceedings. ARTICLE III.-OFFICERS. SECTION 1. The officers of the Association shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Board of Directors, and an Executive Committee, all of whom shall hold office for a term of one year, except the Secretary, who shall hold office for four years, or until their successors are elected, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Board of Directors shall be chosen by the members of the Association, by ballot, unless otherwise ordered, at the morning session of the last day of the annual meeting. The Secretary shall be elected by the Board of Directors, who shall also fix his compensation. SEC. 3. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties as usually devolve upon a presiding officer. In case of his absence or disability, the Vice-President, in order, shall preside, and in the absence of the President and all the Vice-Presidents, a chairman pro tempore may be elected. SEC. 4. The Secretary shall keep a full and acurate report of the proceedings of the Association and of all meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall conduct such correspondence as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may assign. SEC. 5. The Treasurer shall receive and hold in safe-keeping all the funds of the Association, preserve all vouchers, and make a full report to the Board of Directors on the first day of the annual meeting, which report shall be audited by a committee appointed by the said Board of Directors and submitted to the Association for approval. SEC. 6. The Board of Directors shall consist of all past Presidents of the Association who may continue their active membership, and of all future Presidents immediately upon their election, who shall be enrolled as life directors, together with one member from each State represented, to be elected by the Association for a term of one year. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to determine the time and place of meeting, to make all the necessary arrangements for the meetings of the Association and of its departments, to order all expenditures of money, to provide for the general programs, to fill all vacancies in department offices, and to have in charge the general interests of the Association. SEC. 8. The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors shall consist of the President, first Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be ex-officio members of said Board. It shall be the duty of the committee to carry into effect the determination of the Board of Directors. ARTICLE IV.-MEETINGS. SECTION 1. The annual meeting of the Association shall be held at such time and place as shall be determined by the Board of Directors. SEC. 2. Special meetings of the Association may be called by the President at the request of six members of the Board of Directors. SEC. 3. The Board of Directors shall hold its regular meetings at the place and during the time of the annual meeting of the Association. Five members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. SEC. 4. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such other times and places as the Board or the President may determine. SEC. 5. Each new Board of Directors shall organize prior to the adjournment of the meeting at which it is created. At this meeting it shall appoint a Committee on Publication, consisting of the President and Secretary of the Association for the previous year, and one member from each department. ARTICLE V.-DEPARTMENTS. SECTION 1. The departments of the Association shall be such as may be regularly admitted by the Board of Directors. SEC. 2. Each department shall have a President and a Secretary, and such other officers as may be desired, provided that all officers shall be members of the Association. SEC. 3. Each department may adopt such rules and regulations as shall not be in conflict with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association. ARTICLE VI.-BY-LAWS. By-Laws not in conflict with the Constitution may be adopted at any meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present. ARTICLE VII. AMENDMENTS. This Constitution may be altered or amended at a regular meeting by the unanimous vote of the members present; or by a two-thirds vote of the members present; provided that the alteration or amendment shall have been substantially proposed in writing at a previous annual meeting of the Association. BY-LAWS. 1. The following committees shall be appointed by the President: A Committee on Resolutions, a Committee on Necrology, and a Committee on Nominations, each consisting of seven members. 2. No paper, lecture or address shall be read before the Association in the absence of its author, nor shall such paper, lecture or address be published in the proceedings without the unanimous approval of the Board of Directors. 3. All papers presented at the annual meeting shall be the property of the Association, and copies of the same must be placed in the hands of the Secretary before the close of the annual meeting, in order to insure their publication in the volume of proceedings. 4. The Constitution and By-Laws shall be published with the proceedings of each annual meeting. NOTE. This Constitution and By-Laws were unanimously adopted at the Jacksonville meeting, December 30, 1904. W. B. HILL, J. H. PHILLIPS, |