notice as above prescribed.

ARTICLE XIV.

At the annual meeting, the Executive Committee shall report the
amount of money received during the year, and the source from which
it has been received; the amount of money expended during the year,
and the objects for which it has been expended; the number of trees
planted at the cost of the Association; the number planted by
individuals, with the location, the kind of tree, and the name of
the planter; and generally all of the acts of the Committee. This
report shall be entered on the record of the Association.

ARTICLE XV.

Any person who shall plant a tree under the direction of the
Executive Committee, and shall protect it for five years, shall be
entitled to have such tree known forever by his or her name.

ARTICLE XVI.

This Constitution may be amended by the Executive Committee with
the approval of the majority of the members present at any annual
meeting of the Association, or at any special meeting, the notice
of which shall have been accompanied by a copy of the proposed
amendment, with the statement that the amendment is to be voted on
at such meeting.

I have provided, in the above draft of a constitution, for an executive
committee of only five members; for the reason that, while it will be
comparatively easy to secure the services of this number, the duties and
responsibilities of a larger committee would be so distributed that
there would be too often occasion for the application of the old adage:
"What is everybody's business is nobody's business." The Laurel Hill
Association has an executive committee of fifteen, in addition to seven
officers. This large committee (twenty-two) serves to secure the
interest of a larger number of citizens; but the same thing may be as
well accomplished by inviting the co-operation of citizens in the work
of sub-committees, the chairman of each of which would be a member of
the regular executive committee. In Easthampton, Mass., there is a board
of fourteen directors, and there are committees on sanitary matters, on
setting out trees, on sidewalks and hitching-posts, &c. It would be
prudent to restrict the number of members of these sub-committees to
three; one from the executive committee and two from outside.

Besides special executive work, a vast deal has been done wherever
improvement societies have been organiz