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 CONSTITUTION 
 
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 AND 
 
 m-r OF INCORPORATION <. -* 
 
 OF THE 
 
 STATE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
 
 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 GREENSBORO: 
 
 PRINTED AT THE "WORLD" OFFICE: BY JAMES W. AUIRICTIT. 
 
 1862. 
 
 
THE 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
 W S a Eai& W 
 
 AND 
 
 ACT OF INCORPORATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 &TATE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
 
 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 GREENSBORO : 
 
 PRINTED AT THE "WORLD" OFFICE: BY JAMES W. ALBRIGHT. 
 
 1862. 
 
STATE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
 OIFLCSV-^IKrXSSIEZD -5L. X>- 1806,; 
 
 QUARTERED FEBRUARY 23, 1861; 
 

 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Art. T. This Association shall be called the State Educational 
 Association of North Carolina. 
 
 Art. II. The objects of this Association shall be, to promote the 
 mutual improvement of its members, and to advance the education- 
 al and literary inter* sti tate. 
 
 Art. III. The- officers of this Association shall consist of a Pres- 
 ident, six vice Presidents, a cprrespondi] iry*, and a Record- 
 ing Secretary, to be elected ai the ri rular annual n nd to 
 serve for one year, or until their sugce sors be chosen. 
 
 Art. iv. It shall be the duty of the President to preside and pre- 
 serve order at the nicotines of tl iation. 1>ut in the absence 
 or inability of the J Vesiditmr, one of the vice Fri shallper- 
 form his d n1 ; - 
 
 Art. y. The corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspon- 
 dence of the Association. He shall also act as Treasurer, and dis- 
 charge all such duties as may be devolved on him by law. 
 
 Art. vi. The recording Secretary shall keep a faithful record of 
 the Constitution, By Laws, and proceeding of the Association : he 
 shall preserve such papers as may be committed to his care, and he 
 shall superintend the publication of such documents as the Associa- 
 tion may designate. 
 
 Art. vii. The Superintendent of Common Schools in North 
 Carolina nod the Secretaries of the Aesociation shall he an Execu- 
 tive Committee, to execute the orders and attend |o #<a general in- 
 terests of the Association during the interval.'- between meetings. 
 
 Art. VIII, The Association shall meet annually at such f,mo and 
 place as the Executive Committee may select. But the President, 
 upon the Requisition of the Executive Committee, shall call special 
 meeting i, at su< h times and places as said committee may det, rminc; 
 and no business shall be transacted at such meetings but that for 
 which they arc specially called. 
 
 Art. ix. Twelve members from four different counties shall be a 
 quorum to transact business at any meeting of the Association, 
 
 Art. x. Any resident of Xorth Carolina may be elected a mem- 
 ber of the Association by a majority of the members : but the name 
 
of each applicant must first be proposed, accompanied by a state- 
 ment of his county, post office and pursuit ; and the name of nq 
 person shall be enrolled as a member, until he shall have paid on# 
 ^dollar into the treasury of the Association. 
 
 Art. xi. Each member shall be required to pay one dollar annu- 
 ally into the treasury of the Association. 
 
 Art. xii. Any person, by the payment of twenty dollars, may be- 
 come a member of the Association for life, and, without the pay* 
 ment of annual fees, shall eujoy all the privileges of membership 
 and also receive regularly a copy of the N. C. Journal of Educa r 
 tion. 
 
 Art. xiii. No money shall be paid by the Treasurer except by 
 order of the Executive Committee. 
 
 Art. xiv. At the commencement of each annual meeting the 
 President shall deliver an address on such subject, or subjects, as 
 he may think important for the Association to consider. 
 
 Art. xv. No article of this constitution shall be altered except 
 Jjy a vote of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual 
 meeting. 
 
 BY-LAWS. 
 
 I. There shall be six Standing committees appointed, by the Pres- 
 ident, at each annual meeting of the Association. These commit- 
 tees shall consist of five members each, except the last which shall 
 consist of three, and shall be called: 1. Committee on Common 
 Schools ; 2. Committee on Journal of Education ; 3. Committee on 
 Essays and Lectures ; 4. Committee on Educational Statistics ; 5. 
 Committee on Military Schools; 6. Auditing Committee. 
 
 JI. It shall be the duty of these Committees, in addition to any 
 special business from time to time committed to them, to make to 
 each meeting of the Association such reports, suggestions and recom- 
 mendations, on the subjects in regard, to which they are appointed, 
 as they shall deem important. 
 
 JII. The committee on Essaj s and Lectures sliall, each year, se- 
 lect not more than three persons to deliver Essays before the Associ- 
 ation, and, \{ the subjects for the Assays are not determined by the, 
 Association, the committee may select them. 
 
 IV. The Association, at each meeting, shall select a subject fo,r 
 discussion and decision at the next annual meeting, and shall ap? 
 
point a committee, of not less than three nor more than five, to 
 bring it before the meeting by report or reports. 
 
 V. The order of business shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Calling the roll and reading the minutes of the preceeding 
 meeting. 
 
 2. Admission of members, 
 
 3. Reports of Committees, 
 
 4. Motions and Resolutions, 
 
 5. Special orders. 
 
 6. Unfinished business: and it shall require a vote of two thirds of 
 the members present, when objection is made, to take up any busi- 
 ness out of its regular order. 
 
 VI. Any member may call for the ayes and jioes to be recorded, 
 on any pending question. 
 
 VII. The session of the Association, for each day, shall be open- 
 ed and closed with prayer. 
 
 VIII. The original mover of any resolution, that shall have pass- 
 ed the house, shall reduce the same to writing and hand it to the 
 Secretary. 
 
 IX. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to keep a regular ac* 
 count with each member of the Association : and to submit his re* 
 port, with books and vouchers, to the Auditing .Committee for exam* 
 ination, before each annual meeting. 
 
 X. The Treasurer shall place in the hands of the Recording Sec- 
 retary his bond, with approved security, in the sum of one thousu.d 
 dollars ; for the faithful discharge of his official duties. 
 
M ACT TO INCORPORATE 
 
 THE STATE EI>rCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF X. 0. 
 
 uox. 1. Be it- enacted hy the General Asscfnbhj of the State of 
 North ( i audit is hereby enacted by the authority of the saute, 
 
 That the State \ iatj n of & T or.tlr Caroling as organ- 
 
 ized by a voluntary society in the town of Salisbury; oil the 2- 1st clay 
 of October, A. 1>. 18i?0, and whose organization wi l ; perfect- 
 
 ed at the annual meeiihgheld in "War rent oil ort the first day of July 
 1857. in Statesville on the 7th day of July, f$5 : S, in Sewfrcrn on the 
 day of 3une, 1 >, a id in Wilmington on NovemLcv 13. \&(>6, 
 shall 1 reb'y incorporated under the name, ar^d 
 
 style of "The i iation >f North Carolina," and 
 
 may have and ■union seal, sue and bo sued, and cake, bold 
 
 and c d personal pro] rty of the value of twenty thous- 
 
 and dollar:', and no mor ■ • -■ hereinafter specified. 
 
 SEC. 2. And Ic it fur, fcthe said society may adopt 
 
 forits government i < i jtituth laws, not incoi : gvith 
 
 the consti L , State n* of the Unitcct States, and 
 
 shall, according t@ the provisions of these, annually elect a president, 
 six vi . . a record nd a corresponding secre- 
 
 tary irer in one, all of whom shall hold their office, until 
 
 their i • rnted, and tbe said society shall have a per- 
 
 manent executive committ:- Pthe sujperintencl- 
 
 ent i bonis ancl tl rding arid corn ponding secre- 
 
 taries, and whose powei shall he prescril ed in tbe con- 
 
 and by~h ociety. 
 
 row. 3. And Le it -further enact* \ Xi it it shall be tbe duty of the 
 State Educational Assoi a1 oi X< Carolina to hfaid an annual 
 meeting at such place and time, as the executive committee, or others 
 LOiized by the constitution and by-laws so to do. shall direet : at 
 which meeting some questions connected with the cause of education 
 shall be disci] seel and decided, and at which shall be delivered ad- 
 dresses and essays intended to promote tbe progress of useful learn- 
 ing in the State, and to diffuse ini .: ation a people ; and 
 the 1 igs of these meetings, and such esi ayg as tjic ^ssoeiation 
 deem proper, shall be published in pamphlet form, one copy of 
 jvhich shall be sent to the executive library, and one to tbe library 
 pf the State in Raleigh; one to each of the collego-u male and female, 
 in the State : one to the chairman of each board of county superb;- 
 
teadents of eo&mon schools, to be filed in his office, and one to eaeli 
 
 committee of examination. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be if further enacted, That the said Association shall 
 have at least two s " : , one to be called "The Com- 
 
 mittee on Comnipn Schools," and one "The Committee on Statis- 
 tics," which committees shall, ironi time to time, 
 the association on the sul n which they are appointed. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be itfurther > n '■'■ 7 , Th ii it shall be the duty of the 
 superintendent of cqrnm ds for the State, to notify the chair* 
 
 men of the boards of superintendents of conn , ' 3 and the ex- 
 
 amining committees, and the president and directors of the literary 
 fund, at least fifteen days in advance of the time and place of each 
 annual meeting of the association, to make an annual address before 
 it sotting forth the condition, wants and prospects of the common 
 school system, to aid in directing its deliberations and action to use- 
 ful purpo.< ctcd with the cam . nd to 
 exert himself to prcvont^tfj litical bias in 
 it - pr iceedim 
 
 . Sec. C. Beit fur flier enacts 1, That said a relation shall have] 
 lished ui . periodical to be called "The 
 
 North Carolina Journal of Education," to be conducted by such per- 
 sons, reel 00 such terms as it or its authorized committees may see 
 fit ; and the first named of the board of editors shall be the superin- 
 tendent of common schools for the State, whe shall publish in said 
 journal such of his official decisions as he may deem of general inter- 
 est ; his animal letters of instructions to committees of examination 
 — extracts from his annual report to the Governor — such suggestions 
 as he may deem important, with explanations of the duties of his 
 subordinate officers; and once in every two years, a digest with in- 
 dex and notes of all the laws in force in regard io common schools. 
 
 Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 
 president and directors of the literary fund fc iation^ 
 
 through its executive committee, the sum of six hundred dollars per 
 annum for four years, beginning with the year 1859, and ending with 
 the year 186.2; Provided, Such appropriation can be made from the 
 literary fund without diminishing the usual distribution for common 
 school purposes, or injuriously interfering with the usual operations 
 of the literary board, or of the common school system ; And provi- 
 ded, also, That the books, accounts and operations of the association 
 are open to the inspection of the Governor of the State ; And this 
 charter may be declared null and void whenever by the proper legal. 
 
process, in the authorized tribunal, it shall be proved to have be- 
 come a political, sectional or sectarian society, or to be engaged as 
 a society in propagating doctrines inconsistent with the peace and 
 
 safety of the State. 
 
 Sec. 8. And be itjurther enacted, That the president and directors' 
 of the literary fund shall annually appropriate to said society one 
 hundred dollars, to be paid under the direction of the executive com- 
 mittee, in premiums of not more than thirty dollars,nor less than fif- 
 teen each, to common school teachers for essays on such subjects as 
 the association or its authorized committee shall select. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further enacted. That this act shall be in force from 
 and after its ratification. [Ratified the 23rd day of February, 1861. 
 
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