ritten declaration at the time or times of
payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated
person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days
after the payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
payment of the same sum, may be made life members without the
privilege of voting.

Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the
funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of
such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the
Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be
members of the Association for the year for which they were thus
appointed.

ART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the
month of October or November, at such time and place as may be
designated by the Association, or, in case of its failure to act, by
the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official
publication of the Association for the preceding month.

ART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five
Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a
Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive
Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.

At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution,
five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term
of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each
subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full
term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill
vacancies.

ART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and
disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and
dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of
missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in
office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any
Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate
powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries
and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in
general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the
Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.
The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the
Annual Meeting.

Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting
business.

ART. VII. No person shall be m