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APPENDIX.
I.
CONSTITUTION OF THE CONECUH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

PREAMBLE:

  Whereas, the citizens of Conecuh county being desirous of re-claiming from 
the obscurity of the past, all the elements which will serve to make a correct 
history of the county, have agreed to constitute a Society for that purpose, 
to be governed by the following Constitution:

ARTICLE I.

   Section 1. The name of this Society shall be "The Conecuh County Historical 
Society."

   Sec. 2. The object of this Society shall be the accumulation and 
compilation, in enduring form, of the events which have marked the history of 
the county in the past, reaching back to its earliest period, and also of the 
men who have flourished in its annals, and indeed of every object and item 
which would serve to contribute, in anywise, to the interest of the history of 
a people.

   Sec. 3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, two Vice-
Presidents, a Recording Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall perform the 
duties usually connected with such offices.

   Sec. 4. In addition to the above officers there shall be an Executive 
Committee of five, composed of four members to be chosen from different parts 
of the county, and the President of the Society, who shall be ex officio 
Chairman of the Committee. The duty of this committee shall be to appoint time 
and place of meetings, arrange programme of exercises, and do whatever else 
will be demanded for the success of each occasion.

ARTICLE II.

   Section 1. This Society shall be composed of all who are or have been 
citizens of this county, who may desire to unite there-with. A list for the 
enrollment of names shall be kept in the office of the Judge of Probate, and a 
Recorder shall be appointed in each Beat, whose duty it shall be to secure the 
names of citizens, and forward weekly to the Judge of Probate at Evergreen.

   Sec. The members of this Society shall secure material from every possible 
source that would in anywise contribute to the history of the county, whether 
traditional, biographical, martial, agricultural, or otherwise.

   Sec. 3. Material thus secured must be forwarded to the address of the 
Chairman of the Statistical Committee, at Evergreen.

   Sec. 4. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at any regular 
meeting of the Society; provided, that notice of such proposed amendment be 
given at a previous meeting.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
History of Conecuh County, Alabama
By

Rev. B. F. Riley
Pastor of the Opelika Baptist Church

Columbus, Ga.;
Thos. Gilbert, Steam Printer and Book-Binder
1881



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