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Ford, Mrs. E. C. Buffam, Mrs. Cora A. Jones, Mrs. Clara M. Wilson; _Wisconsin_, Laura Ross Wolcott, M. Josephine Pearce, Eliza T.

Wilson, H. S. Brown; _Minnesota_, Sarah Burger Stearns; _Kansas_, Susan E. Wattles, Elsie Stewart, Henrietta L. Miller, Lottie Griffin, Jane M. Burke, Malura Hickson, Elsie J. Miller; _Colorado_, Alida C. Avery; _Ohio_, Sarah R. L. Williams, Margaret V. Longley; _England_, Lydia E. Becker, Caroline A. Biggs, Jessie M. Wellstood.

CHAPTER x.x.x.

CONSt.i.tUTION OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE a.s.sOCIATION.

ARTICLE 1. This organization shall be called the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE a.s.sOCIATION.

ARTICLE 2. The object of this a.s.sociation shall be to secure NATIONAL Protection for women in the exercise of their right to vote.

ARTICLE 3. All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Const.i.tution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the a.s.sociation, with the right to partic.i.p.ate in its deliberations.

ARTICLE 4. The officers of this a.s.sociation shall be a President, a Vice-President from each of the States and Territories, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries, a Treasurer and an Executive Committee of not less than five.

ARTICLE 5. A quorum of the Executive Committee shall consist of nine, and all officers of this a.s.sociation shall be _ex-officio_ members of the committee, with power to vote.

ARTICLE 6. All woman suffrage societies throughout the country shall be welcomed as auxiliaries, and their accredited officers or duly appointed representatives shall be recognized as members of the National a.s.sociation.

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE a.s.sOCIATION, 1886.

_President_--Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tenafly, N. J.

_Vice-Presidents-at-Large_--Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N. Y.; Matilda Joslyn Gage, Fayetteville, N. Y.; Rev. Olympia Brown, Racine, Wis.; Phoebe W. Couzins, St. Louis, Mo.; Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland, Ore.

_Honorary Vice-Presidents_--Ernestine L. Rose, London, England; Priscilla Holmes Drake, Huntsville, Ala.; Mrs. Perry Spear, Eureka Springs, Ark.; Sarah. J. Wallis, Mayfield; Sarah Knox Goodrich, San Jose, Cal.; Mary F. s.h.i.+elds, Colorado Springs, Col.; Rev. Phebe A.

Hanaford, New Haven, Conn.; Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes, Sioux Falls, Dak. Ter.; Rosina M. Parnell, Susan A. Edson, M. D., Ellen M.

O'Connor, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.; Catherine V. Waite, Myra Bradwell, Chicago, Ill.; Zerelda G. Wallace, Indianapolis; Eliza Hamilton, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Amelia Bloomer, Council Bluffs; Mary V. Cowgill, West Liberty, Ia.; Prudence Crandall Philleo, Elk Falls; Mary T.

Gray, Wyandotte; Mary A. Humphrey, Junction City, Kan.; Elizabeth H. Duval, Rinaldo, Ky.; Ann T. Greeley, Ellsworth; Lucy A. Snow, Rockland, Me.; Anna Ella Carroll, Baltimore, Md.; Sarah E. Wall, Worcester; Paulina Gerry, Stoneham, Ma.s.s.; Catherine A. F.

Stebbins, Detroit, Mich.; Charlotte O. Van Cleve, Minneapolis, Minn.; Caroline Johnson Todd, St. Louis, Mo.; Harriet S. Brooks, Omaha, Neb.; Eliza E. Morrill, Sarah H. Pillsbury, Concord; Mary Powers Filley, North Haverhill, N. H.; Sarah G. Hurn, Vineland; Delia Stewart Parnell, Bordentown, N. J.; Clemence S. Lozier, M.

D., New York; Amy Post, Rochester; Sarah H. Hallock, Milton; Mary R. Pell, Flus.h.i.+ng, N. Y.; Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Hollywood, N. C.; Sophia O. Allen, South Newbury; Sarah R. L. Williams, Toledo; Louise Southworth, Cleveland, O.; Harriet W. Williams, Portland, Ore.; M. Adeline Thomson, Philadelphia, Penn.; Catherine C.

Knowles, East Greenwich; Elizabeth B. Chace, Valley Falls, R. I.; Elizabeth Van Lew, Richmond, Va.; Mary Olney Brown, Abbie H. H.

Stuart, Olympia, Wash. Ter.; Laura Ross Wolcott, Milwaukee; Emma C.

Bascom, Madison, Wis.

_Vice-Presidents_--Caroline M. Patterson, Harrison, Ark.; Ellen Clarke Sargent, San Francisco, Cal.; Mrs. L. J. Terry, Pueblo, Col.; Isabella Beecher Hooker, Hartford, Conn.; Marietta M. Bones, Webster City, Dak.; Mary A. Stewart, Greenwood, Del.; Ruth C.

Dennison, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.; Mrs. C. B. S. Wilc.o.x, Interlachen, Fla.; Althea L. Lord, Savannah, Ga.; Dr. Jennie Bearby, Mountain Home, Idaho; Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, Evanston, Ill.; Helen M.

Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.; Jane Amy McKinney, Decorah, Ia.; Laura M.

Johns, Salina Kan.; Mary B. Clay, Richmond, Ky.; Caroline E.

Merrick, New Orleans, La.; Sophronia C. Snow, Hampden Corners, Me.; Caroline Hallowell Miller, Sandy Spring, Md.; Harriette R.

Shattuck, Malden, Ma.s.s.; Fannie Holden Fowler, Manistee, Mich.; Sarah Burger Stearns, Duluth, Minn.; Olivia Fitzhugh, Vicksburg, Miss.; Virginia L. Minor, St. Louis, Mo.; Clara Bewick Colby, Beatrice, Neb.; Maria H. Boardman, Reno, Nev.; Ada M. Jarrett, Magdalena, N. Mex.; Marilla M. Ricker, Dover, N. H.; Cornelia C.

Hussey, East Orange, N. J.; Lillie Devereux Blake, New York, N. Y.; Mary Bayard Clarke, New Berne, N. C.; Frances D. Cas.e.m.e.nt, Painesville, O.; Harriette A. Loughary, McMinneville, Ore.; Matilda Hindman, Pittsburgh, Penn.; Anna S. Aldrich, Providence, R. I.; Elizabeth Lisle Saxon, Memphis, Tenn.; Jennie Bland Beauchamp, Denton, Tex.; Jennie A. Froiseth, Salt Lake City, Utah; Lydia Putnam, Brattleboro', Vt.; Mrs. Roger S. Greene, Seattle, Wash.

Ter.: Alura C. Collins, Milwaukee, Wis.; Amalia B. Post, Cheyenne, Wyoming.