l be filled by majority vote of the board;

(5) That the Board of Officers so constituted shall have full
charge of the remainder of the ratification campaign and all
necessary legal proceedings and shall dispose of files, books,
data, property and funds (if any remain) of the association
subject to the further instruction of this convention. The
Executive Council shall be subject to call by the Board of
Officers if necessary;

(6) That the Board of Officers shall render a quarterly account
of its procedure and an annual report of all funds in its
possession duly audited by certified accountant, to the women who
in February, 1920, compose its Executive Council. When its work
is completed and its final report has been accepted by this
council it may by formal resolution dissolve.[124]

A resolution was adopted regarding action in case of a referendum to
the voters of ratification by a Legislature but later the U. S.
Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional. Another urged the new
league to make political education of the voters its first duty. The
last resolution was as follows:

"We recommend that the League of Women Voters, now a section of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association, be organized as a new
and independent society, and that its auxiliaries, while retaining
their relationship to the Board of Officers to be elected in this 51st
convention in form, shall change their names, objects and
constitutions to conform to those of the National League of Women
Voters and take up the plan of work to be adopted by its first
congress."

Following the precedent of the last convention, in order to save time,
all headquarters' activities were summed up in the report of the
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Nettie Rogers Shuler. Much condensed the
report was as follows:

In the greater glory of the Federal Amendment and the
ratifications which are bringing about our ultimate victory we
should not overlook the solid, constructive work of the past ten
and a half months and those successes of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association and its branches in the various
States, which made possible the Federal Amendment.

At our convention in St. Louis, March 24-29, 1919, when we met to
counsel together for the future and to gird on our armor for the
"one fight more--the last and the best," we celebrated