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The said Section or Sections shall also elect an Auditing Committee, which shall have power at any time to inspect and audit the books and the funds on hand.
2. The members of the National Executive Committee shall be elected for the term of one year, but may be reelected at the expiration thereof.
3. The National Executive Committee has for its duty:
a. To carry out the resolutions of the National Convention and those adopted by general vote.
b. To supervise the agitation throughout the country.
c. To establish proper relations and communication with the Socialist parties of other countries.
d. To make all necessary preparations for the National Convention, and make a full report to such convention on all party matters.
e. To issue to the Sections semi-annually and in a sufficient number of copies a report of the Party's finances.
4. It is also the duty of the National Executive Committee:
a. To receive and submit to a general vote propositions Sent from any Section if endorsed by at least five others located in at least three different States. If in the opinion of the National Executive Committee a proposition is not in the interest of the Party, it shall not be submitted to a general vote, unless five per cent. of all the Sections in good standing shall subsequently re-endorse it; then the proposition shall be submitted to a general vote.
b. To be represented in the National Convention by one of its members, who shall have no vote, but merely an advisory voice in the proceedings, and shall bear no other credentials.
c. The National Executive Committee may make its own order of business.
d. The National Executive Committee may compensate its officers, according to the labors performed by them, from the treasury of the Party.
5. Annually, and in due time, the National Executive Committee shall call upon the Sections to make nominations for not more than three delegates to represent the Party in the annual convention of the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance. The nominees shall be chosen by a general or referendum vote, and the ones receiving the highest vote shall be declared elected.
6. The National Executive Committee shall issue application cards to the Sections bearing a plain exposition of the principles of the S. L. P., and also of the duties required from the applicant for membership.
V. NATIONAL BOARD OF APPEALS.
1. The National Board of Appeals shall be composed of seven members, to be elected by a general vote of the membership of the city selected by the National Convention as the seat of such Board. No member of the Board shall be eligible to any office in the Party during his or her term of office; nor shall the seat of the Board be the same as that of the National Executive Committee.
2. The duties of this Board shall be:
a. To settle, upon appeal, all difficulties in the Party within four weeks after receiving the necessary evidence, the decisions to be at once communicated to the National Executive Committee; and to decide appeals in cases of expulsion and of suspension.
b. From all decisions of the Board, appeal may be taken to the general vote, or to the National Convention provided a convention is to be held within six months. The Sections must report the result of their vote to the National Executive Committee within six weeks; within two additional weeks the National Executive Committee must publish the result.
c. The Secretary of the Board of Appeals shall render to the National Convention a full report of the transactions of the Board during its term of office.
