At the annual general meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce, held last Friday in the American Club, Mr. C. Lil. French, President, presided, supported Messrs. 8, C. Kingsury, F, J. Raven, B. Arthue,-T. J. Cokely, R. Evans, U. G, Frondorf, and V. G. Lyman, and Mr. W. Manley, secretary. Cay un Robert, Dollar, who arrived in Shanghai yesterda sat at the official table Before attending to the business of the meeting, the president drew attention to the Community Chest Fund charity baseball game to be played next Saturday, and urged all members to the project as} much as possible, the American charities now having been taken evea! by the Chamber since its amalgama.- ion with the American Association.
'The following were elected to serve on the committee for the ensuing ye -—Messrs. C, H. French, S. C. Kingsbury, F. J. Raven, C. B. Arthor, W. H. Bolton, T. Cokely, R.' F. Evans, C. 8, Prank: lin, R.'J. Corbett, U. G. Frondorf, and V. G. Lyman. The committee, will choose its own officers next week.
Considerable discussion followed on the adoption of the new by-laws, the secretary informing the meeting that they had been formulated their legal department after review. ing constitutions of American chamters at home and in foreign eountries. After pointing out the differences between the old by-laws and the new draft, the secretary sugested that each should study the raft and the old rules, the vote bers of the committee. After the honorary secretary (Mr. E. S, Wilk kinson) had read the notice conven ing the' meeting, the Chairman re~ ferred to the great' loss the Navy Lengue had sustained by the death of the Dean Symons. The late Dean, had been particularly interested int the work of the League and would be missed very much, Sir Sidney, was sure that it would be the desire of members to place on record the sympathy of the league with those the late Dean had left behind, Cone tinuing, the Chairman said that the activities of the League as in case 6f other societies seemed to be taken for granted and those, who attended the Ratepayers' Meeting fon Wednesday would remember that other things had apparently been taken for granted. He was sorry to, see that the number of members had decreased and in view of the enormous amount of work which the Navy had to do and the great debt which was owed to them, it seemed strange that the membership should drop. He thought that they should try again to interest friends and Temove the legitimate criticisms that at the time when we were in tthe hands of the Navy, the member= ship decreased instead of increasing, Sir Sidney then referred to. the Union Jack Club and the remarkable work which the club had done, The Glub was an interesting and flourish ing institution and could be described as the honorary secretary's "baby't which Sourished under his care, Resolutions The adopt of the report sand accounts curried unanimously, The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows President Sidney Barton; Vice-Presidents: The Presidents of St. Andrew's, St. George's, St, David's and St, Patrick The Committee was elected as Bateman, E. T, Byrne, J. J. Pater= follows:—Messrs. P. A. Cox,
son, M. T. Johnson, C. C. Knight, CA. Peel and E, 'S, Willsingon,
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