LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Local Committees, formed of scoutmasters and others interested in work among boys, are organized for every town and its neighborhood, or group of villages, whose chief duties are:
- To appoint scoutmasters.
- To recognize and register troops and patrols.
- To award badges.
Further, each county or city, or very large district, will have its Scout Council, on which the Local Committees in its area will be represented.
The chief duties of the Scout Council are:—
- To promote generally the welfare of the Boy Scout Movement in its area.
- To secure as far as possible uniformity of policy among the Local Committees.
Further details of the Local Scout Organizations, their headquarters, their work, etc., can be obtained from
- The Managing Secretary,
- East Twenty-eighth Street,
- New York.
- East Twenty-eighth Street,
POWER OF SCOUTMASTERS
A scoutmaster has the power to enrol scouts and to recommend them to the Local Committee for badges and medals. He also has the power to release a scout from his oath, and to withdraw his badges and discharge him. A scout who considers himself unjustly treated may appeal to the Local Committee; their decision will be final.
A scout discharged for misconduct, or who deserts from his troop or patrol, is no longer entitled to wear the uniform or badges of the Boy Scouts.
Scoutmasters will not accept as recruits boys from other organizations, unless by desire of their officer.
A scoutmaster appoints his own patrol leaders for one year, when he can either reappoint them or substitute others. He can at any time reduce a patrol leader to corporal or to scout.
