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you deem it necessary, Mr. President, why not go through your
Parliamentarian? But I think, for moving it along in a more
simplified manner, have a vote and do it for Secretary-Treasurer.
PRESIDENT MANSFIELD: I am going to turn this over to
the parliamentarian because it will be his decision.
RETIRED CHIEF MERTON S. DYER: [Peterborough, NH]
The officers ofthe organization shall consist of a Secretary and
a Treasurer. They are two separate offices. It appears the best
procedure to follow is supposed to be followed for the election of
the Secretary by a ballot vote. There is nothing to preclude the
election of the Treasurer by a voice vote. I think each election
should go forward separately. Somebody may want to make a
nomination for the other office. I think they should be done
separately and I think that’s the way to deal with the problem.
CHIEF JAMES M. HALLISE¥: [Brocktol~, MA] I rise to a
point of order. I would make it clear whether it’s Robert’s Rules
of Order, Cushing’s Rules of Order, Jefferson’s, you name it, no
matter who you have. Our executive board has, in its wisdom,
put off till next year perhaps or some other time the changing
from Secretary and Treasurer, which is in our by-laws not to
separate them.
So in the interest of moving this meeting along, I see nothing
wrong in taking another nomination. You may have two votes
if you’d like on Secretary or Treasurer, but we had a screening
committee to go through the candidates. And the candida~tes
were, in my understanding, the Secretary/Treasurer. Why is it
that we’re going now, comma and semicolon and period in the
constitution and by-laws to have two separate votes? And now
Mr. Parliamentarian and you come across and say we may now
have a voice vote if there are mo~e than two people. We haven’t
had a vote of more than two people anyway. But to divide this
when there is a contest between two capable individuals, why
not have a nomination now? I don’t understand your objection,
Mr. Parliamentarian, through Mr. Chairman.
RETIRED CHIEF DYER: We are operating with Robert’s
Rules of Order. The motion under the constitution, I don’t
believe it was to separate or to join the office of Secretary and
Treasurer, but to remove some of the restrictions on where they
would live.
As far as a voice vote, we have had more or less a ballot. The
constitution calls for a ballot vote. You vote for Treasurer and if
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