The next business of the meeting was the election of the chief officers of the committee.
The Chairman—I have much pleasure in recommending to your votes a man who has been with us for a generation. He has been so long with us that we know all about him, and we can elect him with perfect confidence that we are putting the right man in the right place. record is so clear to all that it is unnecessary for me to detail to you his qualities. We know him to be a man of high character and high intelligence. and that is the man we want as the president of this association. I nominate for you that excellent specimen of honest American manhood, John P. Roberts.
Mr. R. E. Lewis—I should like to see our Vice-President promoted to the office, and thought that perhaps ho would permit his name to be nominated. However, Tam happy to second his nomination of Mr. Roberts, 2 man who stands on his own merits. "When ho returns to Shanghai it will be, I think, a pleasant surprise for him.
Mr. M. Warner proposed, and Mr. F. Ball seconded, that the Secretary should take one ballot on the proposition. This was done, and Mr. Roberts was declared "mmanimously elected President of the Association.
On the proposition of Mr. Blake, seconded by Mr. J. S. Fearofi, the Rev. Hawks Pott was elected Vice-President unani-Gaously by the meeting.
Mr. A. C. Hunter was_ appointed Treasurer, on the motion of Mr. Irvine, seconded by Mr. F. 8. Jacott.
On the motion of Mr. J. S. Fearon, seconded by Mr. F. Ball, an appointment was made to the post of secretary of Mr Lewis.
Mr. J. S. Fearon proposed that an alteration should be made in article ten making the annual due for non-resident members $2.30 instead of $5.
The Rev. Hawks Pott, in seconding this proposition, said that the reason for the change being suggested was that. many non-members who would like to take an active part in the work of the association considered $5 rather a high charge.
The proposition was put to the meeting and carried.
'A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the meeting.
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