Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 220b)

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I have myself experienced much incon-
venience from a confused arrangement of
the By-laws. This is not impugning the
wisdom or skill of others, but merely stating
that no printed by-laws had been used before
1857, and the arrangement has not since been
changed. Experience (which we were then without
in this matter) has taught me that an
improvement should be made in this
particular. The difficulty chiefly occurs
in finding a particular by-law. For exam-
ple, the subject of the "laying out of lots" (art 17) is
sandwiched in between "Interments" (art 16) and
"Public Lots" (art 18) which two last two are upon
the same subject: and again art 18. "Public Lots",
which belongs in the category of Interments, comes in
between 17, Laying out of lots & 19 "Sales & Conveyances." --

I could go an and instance other cases, but
instead of doing so, propose to make such
suggestions as have occurred to me, in the order
in which the articles now stand, and conclude
with the change which I propose in the arrange-
ments. --

My first remark is: --

Under Art 2^d which relates to the annual election of
Trustees -- No provision has been in the by laws as to the mode of

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