The Red Cross in Peace and War

by Clara Barton

A GROUP OF AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS MEMBERS.

HELEN M. BOYTNTON
H.V. BOYNTON GEORGE KENNAN
RICHARD J. HINTON
P.V. DEGRAW WALTER P. PHILLIPS
EMELINE RATHBORN WELD KENNAN

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CONSTITUTION.

Name, Location.

Article 1. This Association shall be known as the American Association of the Red Cross, with its office located at Washington, D.C., and shall consist of the subscribers hereunto, and such other persons as shall hereafter be elected to membership; and it shall constitute a Central National Association with power to organize state and territorial associations auxiliary to itself.

Objects of Association.

Art. 2. The objects of the National Association are,

First, To secure the adoption by the Government of the United States of the Treaty of August 22, 1864.

Second, To obtain recognition by the Government of the United States, and to hold itself in readiness for communicating therewith at all times, to the end that its purposes may be more widely and effectually carried out.