Proceedings of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Proceedings of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by Mining and Metallurgical Societ America and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Vol. 5 Ballot of Dec. 8, 191 x.-For the counting of the ballots issued under date of Dec. 8, 1911, F. W. Parsons and J. T. Beard were appointed as tellers. They counted the ballots on Jan. 8, 1912, in conformity with the provisions of the by-laws and reported as follows: J. Parke Channing, President. Sir: We beg to inform you that we have this day canvassed the ballot of Dec. 8, 1911. The Secretary of the Society delivered to us a checked list of members showing a total of 229, of whom 218 were eligible to vote, and together therewith delivered 107 ballots received from members eligible to vote, which ballots had been carefully checked off on the list of members. Of the 107 ballots delivered two were rejected because of absence of signature. The canvass of the remaining 105 ballots was as follows: Question I.-The Memorial to the President of the United States. Shall this memorial be adopted by the Society? There were 96 votes in the affirmative and 9 votes in the negative. Question 2.-U. S. Bureau of Mines. Shall the bill drafted by the council be adopted by the Society? There were 97 votes in the affirmative and 7 in the negative, one vote being rejected as imperfect. Question 3.-The Alaska Coal Lands. Shall the resolutions adopted by the council be adopted by the Society? There were 87 votes in the affirmative and 15 in the negative. Two ballots were rejected as imperfect and one member failed to vote on this question. The above report is respectfully submitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.