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HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1920 6oi ' J ) That the eight directors elected at the 5oth annual conven- tion, and whose term of office does not expire until March, 1921, shall be asked to serve until the term of elected officers shall expire ; (3) That any vacancy or vacancies occurring in the list of direc- tors shall be filled by election at this convention ; i That all vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring after this convention shall be filled by majority vote of the board; (5) That the Board of Officers so constituted shall have full charge of the remainder of the ratification campaign and all neces- legal proceedings and shall dispose of files, books, data, property and funds (if any remain) of the association subject to the further instruction of this convention. The Executive Council shall be sub- t to call by the Board of Officers if necessary; (6) That the Board of Officers shall render a quarterly account of its procedure and an annual report of all funds in its possession duly audited by certified accountant, to the women who in February, TO2O. compose its Executive Council. When its work is completed I and its final report has been accepted by this council it may by formal resolution dissolve. 1 A resolution was adopted regarding action in case of a referen- dum to the voters of ratification by a Legislature but later the 1 T . S. Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional. Another urged the new league to make political education of the voters it<= first duty. The last resolution was as follows : "We recommend that the League of Women Voters, now a section of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, be organized as a new and independent society, and that its auxiliaries, while retaining their relationship to the Board of Officers to be elected in this ;ist convention in form, shall change their names, objects and constitutions to conform to those of the

ona1 League of Women Voters and take up the plan of

work to be adopted by its first congress." Following the precedent of the last convention, in order to ive time, all headquarters' activities were summed up in the report of the corresponding secretary, Mrs. Nettie Rogers Shuler. Mnrh condensed the report was as follows: In the rn-ater erlory of the Federal Amendment and the ratifica- is which are bringing about our ultimate victory we should not k the solid, constructive work of the past ten and a half months and th< <ses of the National American Woman Suf- 1 For account of meeting* of the Board of Officer* and Executive Council In April and Junr. TOST, see Appendix for this chapter. VOL. v