originate and report others. A motion to refer to this committee shall not be debatable. The final report of the committee shall be presented not later than at the morning session of the last day on which the Convention meets. After the final report shall have been presented, no proposed resolution referring to a subject not included in the report shall be referred to the committee, but, without debate, shall be sent to the Executive Committee for submission to the Committee on Resolutions at the next annual meeting of the Convention. This By-law may be suspended by a three-fourths vote.

SEC. 10. There shall be a Law Committee consisting of five persons. It shall be the duty of this committee to consider and report upon all matters referred to it by the Convention or the Executive Committee.

SEC. 11. The Committees on Reports, on Order of Business, on Nominations, on Selection of a Place for the Next Annual Meeting, and on Resolutions shall be composed of one of the delegates from each State, to be nominated by such delegates and elected by the Convention at the second session of each annual meeting. A vacancy in any one of these committees shall be filled by the delegates from the unrepresented State.

SEC. 12. The Executive Committee shall appoint annually one of its members, whose term does not expire the current year, to act as an additional member of the Committee on Nominations, without the right to vote.

SEC. 13. The President shall appoint all committees, and shall fill any vacancy in any committee, except when otherwise provided.

SEC. 14. The word "State" means any State, Territory, district, or dependency of the United States.

ARTICLE V

COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

SECTION I. On its application and the approval of the Convention by a two-thirds vote, any general denominational missionary, educational, or philanthropic organization, whose constituency resides in the States represented in the Convention, may become a cooperating organization.

SEC. 2. A cooperating organization must agree:

(a) To insert in its by-laws a provision that all accredited delegates to each annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention shall be annual members of the organization;

(b) To regulate its expenditures in accordance with a budget to be annually approved by the Convention;

(c) To solicit funds only on the approval of the Convention, or on the approval of the Finance Committee given between the annual meetings of the Convention as provided by Article IV, Section 2, Subdivision (c);

(d) To incur no indebtedness without the previous approval of the Convention, or of the Finance Committee as provided by Article IV, Section 2, Subdivision (c);

(e) To submit its books and accounts to the inspection of the Finance Committee; to prepare its budgets and to make its financial reports in such form as that committee shall request.

SEC. 3. The Convention, through its Executive and Finance Committees, will aid in raising funds needed to carry on the work of each cooperating organization.

SEC. 4. Cooperation between the Convention and a cooperating organization shall be terminated on the expiration of a year after written notice of a desire to terminate cooperation shall have been given by one to the other.

ARTICLE VI

BOARDS

SECTION I. (a) There shall be a Board of Education, to be composed of twenty-one persons, to be appointed by the Executive Committee. Of the twenty-one first appointed, seven shall serve for three years, seven shall serve for two years, and seven shall serve for one year, and thereafter seven shall be appointed annually by the Executive Committee to serve for three years. Vacancies caused by the death, resignation, or refusal to act of any of the twenty-one may be filled by the Executive Committee.

(b) It shall be the duty of this Board to develop the educational convictions of our churches, to make a comprehensive study of our educational problems, and to foster such denominational institutions and denominational ministries in other schools of learning as the Board may approve.

(c) The Board may adopt by-laws for its government, elect its own officers and define their duties, and shall report annually to the Convention.

SEC. 2. To each annual meeting of the Convention the Executive Committee shall present the names of persons to be appointed by the Convention to fill such vacancies in the Board of Managers of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the Northern Baptist Convention as shall exist at the annual meeting of said Board.

ARTICLE VII

AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS

SECTION I. On its application and the approval of the Convention any Baptist State Convention in any State represented in the Convention may become an affiliating organization.

SEC. 2. An affiliating organization should agree:

(a) To adopt the following statement of its objects:

To promote in the State of ......... the preaching of the gospel, ministerial and general education, the establishment, maintenance, and assistance of Baptist churches and Bible-schools, and the care of worthy pastors, their wives or widows, and their dependent children.

To give expression to the opinions of its constituency upon moral, religious, and denominational matters, to promote denominational unity and efficiency in efforts for the evangelization of the world, to support earnestly the work of cooperating organizations of the Northern Baptist Convention, and by affiliation with that Convention to promote its plans and work.

(b) To provide for the promotion of these objects by thorough and efficient organization.

(c) To appoint an Apportionment Committee whose duty it shall be to receive from the Apportionment Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention the statement of the amount apportioned by the latter to the State, to add to that amount the sum adopted by the State Convention for all other objects, and to apportion the aggregate amount equitably among the churches of the State and to notify each church of the amount apportioned to it. District Secretaries of the organizations cooperating with the Northern Baptist Convention and the State Secretary shall be advisory members of the State Apportionment Committee.

(d) To employ such agents and methods and to take such other action to carry the apportionment into effect as to it may seem wise.

ARTICLE VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 1. On all ballots for officers and members of the Executive Committee there shall be reserved a space after the name of the nominee for each office, and after the names of the nominees for the Executive Committee, in which spaces may be inserted the name or names of any other person or persons to be voted for, as the case may be.

SEC. 2. (a) When any motion is pending before the Convention, its consideration may be temporarily suspended by a motion that a vote on the subject shall be taken by the delegations from the States, and such a motion shall be deemed carried when supported by one-fifth of the delegates voting; and upon the report of the result by States a motion to concur shall be in order; and in case it shall be decided in the affirmative, the matter shall be deemed settled; but if the Convention votes not to concur, the matter shall be dismissed from further consideration at that meeting of the Convention.

(b) On a vote by States, each State shall be entitled to one vote, and an additional vote for every ten thousand members of Baptist churches within the State in affiliation with the Northern Baptist Convention.

(c) The vote of each State shall be determined by the majority of its delegates voting.

(d) A motion to vote by States shall be in order at any time while a motion is pending, shall not be debatable, and shall not close debate on the original motion.

(e) For use at each annual meeting the Recording Secretary shall prepare a statement of the number of votes to which each State shall be entitled according to the best denominational statistics available. The statement thus prepared, when approved by the Executive Committee, shall be authoritative.

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS

These by-laws may be amended at any annual meeting of the Convention, either on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, given at a previous session of the Convention at which such amendment is submitted, or after written notice of the proposed amendment, given at a previous annual meeting and signed by at least twenty-five delegates, representing not less than five States.

PRESENTATION OF OUTSIDE Causes

Resolved, That the presentation at meetings of the Convention of causes other than those relating to the work of the Convention and its Cooperating Organizations be permitted only upon recommendation of the Executive Committee.

(Annual 1912, Item 285, page 177; Item 288, page 180.)

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF COMMITTEES

Resolved, That when the time for electing committees at the first afternoon session is reached, a recess of thirty minutes shall be taken to allow the State delegations to meet, organize, and nominate to the Convention the committeemen on the Committees on Order of Business, on Nominations, on Selection of a Place for the Next Annual Meeting, on Resolutions, and on Reports. The members of the Committee on Nominations shall be nominated by the State delegations by ballot.

That, at the close of the recess, the Recording Secretary of the Convention shall call the roll of States; that each State chairman, from his place on the floor, shall announce the names of the committeemen nominated to the Convention (a list of names having previously been sent to the Secretary's table); and that then the Convention shall proceed to the election of the committees thus nominated.

Immediately after the election, it shall be the duty of the President to announce the rooms in which the several committees so elected shall meet on adjournment of the session. The convener of each Committee shall be the committeeman from the State in which the Convention is meeting, or, in his absence, the committeeman from the State in which the Convention met the previous year.

(Annual 1912, Item 5, page 54; Item 118, page 84; Item 119, page 85.) (Annual 1914, Item 6, page 7; Item 10, page 19.)

Debatable MOTIONS IN WRITING

Resolved, That all debatable motions shall be reduced to writing, and be in the hands of the Recording Secretary before a vote by the Convention. (Annual 1913, Item 5, page 1; Item 61, page 24.)

RULES OF ORDER

Resolved, That, beginning with the Convention in 1914, "Robert's Rules of Order" be the manual of parliamentary practice for the guidance of the Convention in all matters of procedure not prescribed in the By-laws. (Annual 1913, Items 294, 295, pages 153, 154.)