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 CHAPTER XL 



MEETINGS. 



Art. I. The stated meetings of the Academy shall be held on 

 Tuesday evening of each week, at hours fixed from time to time by 

 the Academy. No change, however, can be made but after one 

 month's notice, given at a meeting for business. 



Art. II. The last stated meeting in each month shall be called a 

 Meeting for Business, and shall be appropriated to elections of mem- 

 bers and correspondents, the enacting and altering of laws, the finan- 

 cial concerns of the Society, receiving reports of committees, and in 

 general to all such business as does not appertain to the scientific 

 transactions of the Academy. 



Art. III. All other stated meetings shall be called Ordinary Meet- 

 ings, and shall be devoted to scientific pursuits. No other business 

 shall be brought forward, except in cases of urgency, and on a vote 

 of two-thirds of the members present. 



Art. IV. Special meetings may be convened by resolution of the 

 Society, or by public notice from the president, or at the request of 

 five members. 



Art. V. Six members shall constitute a quorum. 



Art. VI. Strangers may be introduced at ordinary meetings of the 

 Society. 



Art. A-'II. The order of business, at ordinary meetings, shall be : 



1. Minutes of the last ordinary meeting shall be read. 



2. Donations to the museum 



. shall be received. 



3. Donations to the library 



4. Written communications to be made. 



5. Verbal communications. 



G. Business called up by special resolution. 



7. Rouo;h minutes read. 



8. Adjournment. 



Art. VIII. The order of business, at meetings for business, 

 shall be : 



1. Minutes of the last meeting for business shall be read. 



' 2. Reports of committees. 



3. Corresponding secretary's report. 



4. Deferred business. 



5. New business. 



