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report to the Club for action those names it considers as
desirable members.
The pedigree committee shall investigate the pedigrees of those dogs
offered for registration in the Boston Terrier Stud Book.
The chairman of the pedigree committee shall have the custody of the

Club stud book, and shall enter in the same the registrations allowed by
the B. T. C.
ARTICLE II.
DISCIPLINE.
The executive committee shall have the power to discipline by
suspension a member found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the best
interests of the Club. All charges against a member must be made in
writing and filed with the executive committee, and no member shall be
suspended without an opportunity to be heard in his own defense.
When the expulsion of a member is considered advisable, the report of
the committee shall be presented to the Club, whose action shall be
final.
ARTICLE III.
DUES.
SECTION 1. The entrance fee shall be five dollars, which must
accompany the application for membership.
SEC. 2. The annual dues shall be ten dollars, payable upon notice of
election and at each annual meeting thereafter.
ARTICLE IV.
JUDGES.
SECTION 1. There shall be elected by ballot each year at the annual
meeting a corps of not more than fifteen judges, a list of whose names
shall be sent to bench show committees with a request that the judge of
Boston terriers at their approaching shows be selected from said list.
SEC. 2. The Club judges may exhibit, but shall not compete at or be
interested directly or indirectly in the show at which they officiate.
ARTICLE V.

AMENDMENTS.
This Constitution and these By-Laws, and the Standard and Scale of
Points may be amended or altered by a two-thirds vote at any regular
meeting or special meeting called for that purpose.
Notice of proposed change having been given to all members at least
ten days previous to said meeting.
THE REVISED BOSTON TERRIER STANDARD
The present Boston terrier standard was adopted by the Boston Terrier
Club on October 7, 1914, as a result of a revision recommended by a
committee appointed by the Boston Terrier Club.
It was felt, in view of the fact that the dog had become established all
over the continent among breeders and fanciers not as familiar with the
ideal of the breed as were the original breeders and friends of the dog
around Boston, that a more explicit, definite standard, one that could be
more easily understood by the great body of the dog's admirers of today,
should be adopted.
It will be readily observed by a comparison of the old standard, which
has practically been in existence since the formation of the club in 1891,
that no vital point has been really changed.
REVISED STANDARD OLD STANDARD.
Point Values Scale of Points.
10 GENERAL APPEARANCE: The 10 GENERAL APPEARANCE
AND general appearance of STYLE: The general the Boston terrier
appearance of the Boston should be that of a Terrier is that of a lively,
highly smooth, short-coated, intelligent, smooth compactly-built dog of
coated, short headed, medium station. The head compactly built, short
should indicate a high tailed, well balanced degree of intelligence and
dog of medium station, should be in proportion to of brindle color and
the dog's size; the body evenly marked with rather short and white. The

head should well-knit, the limbs indicate a high degree strong and
finely turned, of intelligence and no feature being so should be in
proportion prominent that the dog to the size of the dog; appears badly
the body rather short proportioned. The dog and well knit, the limbs
conveys an impression of strong and neatly determination, strength
turned; tail short and and activity. Style of a no feature being so high
order, and carriage prominent that the dog easy and graceful. appears
badly proportioned. The dog should convey an impression of
determination, strength and activity, with style of a high order; carriage
easy and graceful. A proportionate combination of "Color" and "Ideal
Markings" is a particularly distinctive feature of a representative
specimen, and dogs with a preponderance of white on body, or without
the proper proportion of brindle and white on head, should possess
sufficient merit otherwise to counteract their deficiencies in these
respects.
The ideal "Boston Terrier Expression" as indicating "a high degree of
intelligence," is also an important characteristic of the breed.
"Color and Markings" and "Expression" should be given particular
consideration in determining the relative value of "General
Appearance" to other points.
12 SKULL: Square, flat on 12 SKULL: Broad and flat, top, free from
wrinkles; without prominent cheeks, cheeks flat; brow abrupt, and
forehead free from stop well defined. wrinkles.
2 STOP: Well defined, but indenture not too deep.
5 EYES: Wide apart, large 5 EYES: Wide apart, large and and round,
dark in round,