The eighth annual meeting of the Mokanshan Summer Resort Association vas held in the Union Church, Mokanshan, on Thursday, August 3rd, 1905, ab 10 a.m. Dr. A. P. Parker, the vice-President, in the Chair and opened the meeting with prayer.
Dr, Parker then delivered @ most appropriate President's address.
The Rev, A. R, Kepler was appointed temporary clerk. The minutes of the last annual meeting having been printed were taken as read.
was announced that. only those property owners who had paid rheic Assessments' to dates snd. signed the constitution, could vote at the meeting.
was ordered that members of the Association not present- might be represented by proxy at this meeting upon the Verbal statement to this effect by said proxy. About 70 voters were present.
On motion the chairman appointed nominating Committee as. follows Hayes, Dr. Boone, the Rev.
Bevan, Dr.
Little, The Report of the Board of Directors wus read by the secretary. The following was adopted:—Resolved, that the Association tender. hearty vote of thanks to the secretary and treasurer for their self-sacrificing and painstaking service during the past year, work which has involved the expenditure of a large amount of time and hard work.
That part of the report of the Board of Directors. which reviewed the work of the past year was approved and the recommendations were taken up seriatim. The recommendations which follow below were adopted, other recom-over for further Thursday, August the 17th.
Chief among the resolutions held over is one relating to the employment of foreign manager for the bisinoss affairs was proposed and afterwards laid on the table until next meeting.
The following gentlemen, whose names were reported by the nominating committee, were duly elected as officers and directors of the Association for the ensuing year:—President.—Rev. A. P. Parker, D.D., Shangh:
Vice-President—Rov. D. H. Davis, D.D., Shang!
Treasurer.—Rev, Goo, Hudson, Hang-Tehow.
Seoretary.—Rev. P, F. Price,. Dong-
Directors.—Rev. H. L. W. Bevan, Rov. E. Box, Rey. 0. 0. Crawford, Rev. M. D. Eubank, M.D., T. Gaunt, Esq-, Rev. Geo, Hudson, Rev. W. H. Hudson, Rev, R. A. Parker, T. E. Trueman, Esq., Rev. J. A. Silsby, Rev. James Ware, ind Rev, Frank White.
_The Mooting adjourned until the 17th of August, 1905, at 9 p.m.
The following is the report of the Board of Directors, so far as adopted, and of the budget for the ensuing year ending 30th Tune, 1906:—
Report or raz Boanp or Dinxcrons.
The Board of Directors respectfully submits the following report and recommendations:—
The Board of Directors records with profound sorrow the death of the president of the Board, Mr. A, B. Rox, We mourn the loss of a' man. of upright: Christian character, of a colleague with whom our relations wore ever kindly, and of an officer whose death leaves a jarge vacsney both in the Board of Directors and in the Association, The vacancy caused in the Board by the absence on furlough of Mr. Bitton has been filled by the election of the Rev. R.
Bryan, D.D.
regard to a question of long standing, the removal of ten native huts
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