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Credentials

Delegates to the Annual Congress are allocated according to the membership of each State Society.  State Presidents, National Trustees, General Officers and Former President Generals also have a vote here.  Major policy directions and proposed resolutions are debated and voted upon.  

You must be a credentialed delegate in order to vote.

Delegates are selected by their State. It is your responsibility to notify your appropriate State officer that you plan to attend congress.  The following are excerpts from the SAR Handbook that discuss congress and delegates:

Bylaw No. 20 - Delegates to a Congress

Section 1. The following shall be delegates at the Annual Congress, and at any Special Congress of the Society and entitled to vote therein:

  (a) all General Officers, the Former Presidents General of the National Society, and members of the Executive Committee, who shall be National Delegates;

  (b) the Trustees or Alternate Trustees from each of the several State Societies and the President or Vice-President of each State Society;

  (c ) one Delegate at Large from each State Society;

  (d) one Delegate for every fifty members of the State Society and for a fraction of twenty-five or over, such Delegates to be elected or appointed by the State Society in such manner as its Constitution or Bylaws provide.

  (e) No Delegate shall be entitled to cast more than one vote. If entitled to vote under more than one of the foregoing subparagraphs, he shall elect under which category he casts his vote.

Section 2. State Societies shall be represented at meetings of the National Society by members chosen in either of the following manners:

  (a) by appointment or election by the State Society in such manner as its Constitution and Bylaws provide, subject to the right of qualified State Delegates in attendance at the Congress to elect as additional delegates, members of such State Society present at such Congress, subject to the provisions of Section (d) of this Bylaw, in such manner as the State Society's Constitution or Bylaws may authorize.

  (b) In the event that any State Society for any reason does not have a delegate attending any meeting of the National Society, such State Society shall be and is hereby authorized and in such manner as such State Society may determine, to select as its proxy at any such meeting, some member of the National Society, a member of a State Society of the same District as the State Society issuing a proxy, hereunder, and such person so chosen as proxy for a State Society hereunder shall be the duly accredited representative of the State Society issuing said proxy with all the rights, powers, and privileges, of a member of said State Society chosen in the manner hereinabove provided in subsection (a) of this

Section l; provided, however, that no State Society shall have the right to choose in excess of one proxy hereunder, and no person chosen as such proxy shall have the right to cast more than one vote in behalf of the State Society designating him as its proxy on any matter coming before the meeting of the National Society for which he holds a proxy.

Bylaw No. 26 - Order of Business of the Annual Congress

(1) Calling the Congress to order by the President General

(2) Opening prayer by the Chaplain General

(3) Address by the President General

(4) Report of the Credentials Committee

(5) Reading of Minutes of last Congress

(6) Reports of Trustees

(7) Reports of Officers

(8) Reports of Standing Committees

(9) Reports of Special Committees

(10) Old and Unfinished Business

(11) New Business, including the election of Officers and Trustees

(12) Adjournment

provided, that the Congress may suspend this order of business by a two-thirds vote.