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The Convention shall intrust the management of affairs for a year to an executive committee of not less than twelve housekeepers chosen by ballot from its own number.

The Convention shall deliberate over amendments or alterations of the constitution; allotment of profits and losses; number of divisions in the different departments; investments of capital; receipts and expenditures of more than £100; unperformed contracts; amount and conditions of loans received; the cautions to be observed by the treasurers; and indemnification of the members of the committee for all trouble.

The Convention has supreme control of the business, subject to the veto of the Council, and, except in extraordinary cases, is the highest tribunal for all complaints. It chooses, for the first and third quarterly settlement of accounts, certain auditors, who must lay their reports before the executive committee before presenting them to the Convention.

One half of the members of the executive committee shall constitute a quorum, and a majority of votes shall decide. It shall choose a president and vice-president. It shall be the president's duty to call a meeting of the committee at least once every month, anD, in addition, as often as any three members may desire it.

The executive committee shall issue the call for the Convention, and the president of the executive committee shall preside. The call must be within three weeks after the close of the last settlement, and as often besides as twenty-five ordinary members, or five members of the committee, shall express a desire for such meetings. Article XVIII.—

The executive committee shall choose three boards of directresses corresponding to the three principal divisions of co-operative housekeeping. These boards shall severally consist of four directresses,—two to be chosen from the executive committee, and two from the Convention; and this choice shall be subject to the approval of the