CONSTITUTION AND BQ-LAWS
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Kentucky Equal Rights Assocratton.
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‘_ “ If ye abide in My word. ye shall know the truth. and the truth
shall make you free."
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE l—NAME. '
This Association shall be known as the “Kentucky Equal Rights
Association,” auxiliary to the National-American Woman Suffrage Asso- .
ciation.
ARTICLE II—OBJECT.
Its object shall be to advance the industrial, educational and legal
rights of women,and to secure suffrage to them by appropriate State and
National legislation.
ARTICLE Ill—MEMBERSHIP.
Any local Equal Rights Association may become auxiliary to the
State Equal Rights Association by endorsing the Constitution and paying
dues to the State Treasurer. Any person may become a member of this
Association by endorsing the Constitution and paying dues to the State
Treasurer. N0 distinction on account of sex shall be made in member-
ship or eligibility to office in this Association. ,
‘ ARTICLE IV—FINANCE. '
Each local association shall pay annually to the State Treasurer the
amount of thirty-five cents per member of each auxiliary: ten cents of
which shall go to the National-American Woman Suffrage Association.
Each member of the State Equal Rights Association, not a member of
an auxiliary local association, shall pay annually to the State Treasurer
the amount of $1.
'\ ARTICLE V——OF]5ICERS.
The officers shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Corre-
sponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary and a Treasurer. These
i general officers shall constitute an Executive Committee to provide for
_' and control the general interest of the work, of whom three shall con—