BY-LAWS. 5 



VI. — THE EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



1st. The executive board shall enact all rules and regulations for the 

 management of the affairs of the society, determine the salaries of its offi- 

 cers, and assume the control and management of its exhibitions. 



2d. It shall have power to displace any officer of the society for neglect 

 of duty or abuse of position, and to fill all vacancies by appointment, to 

 continue till the next annual election. 



3d. The board shall hold four regular sessions during the year, to occur 

 at the times and jjlaces for the regular meetings of the society. 



4th. Other meetings may be called by the secretary, under the advice or 

 direction of the president, or of a majority of its members, at such times 

 and places as may be deemed most convenient; but in all such cases each 

 member must be notified of the time, place, and object of such meeting. 



5th. It shall be the duty of the board to carefully guard the general 

 interests of the society, to watch over its finances, and to provide for its 

 necessities as they shall arise. 



6th. All important measures shall be submitted to this board, but they 

 may by the board be re-submitted to the society with recommendations. 



7th. The board shall, at the annual meeting submit through the secretary, 

 in connection with the reports of officers, such further report upon the con- 

 dition, interests, and prospects of the society as it shall judge necessary or 

 expedient. 



8th. Two members of the executive board are to be elected each year, to 

 hold the office for three years, but if any such member shall absent himself 

 from two or more consecutive meetings of the society, and of the board, 

 without reason satisfactory to the board, the said board may, in its discre- 

 tion, consider the office vacant, and proceed to fill such vacancy by appoint- 

 ment, to continue to the next annual election. 



VII. — THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE, 



1st. It shall be the duty of the executive board, annually, upon entering 

 upon the duties of the new year, to appoint from their own number, three 

 members, who shall constitute a business committee for the year. 



2d. All accounts or claims against the society, when presented to the sec- 

 retary for payment, shall, before payment, receive the sanction and indorse- 

 ment of the business committee. 



3d. Such claims shall be submitted to this committee and ajaproved in 

 duplicate ; one copy to remain with the secretary as his warrant for the pay- 

 ment of the same, and the other to be transmitted by him to the jpresident, 

 along with his order upon the treasurer, as his warrant for countersigning 

 the same. 



4th. It shall be the duty of the business committee, upon application of 

 the secretary, during the recess of the executive board, to advise with him 

 as to the expediency of making any contemplated but questionable expendi- 

 ture for which occasion may arise during such recess. 



VIII. — STANDING COMMITTEES. 



1st. There shall be a standing committee on revision of the catalogue, 

 to be composed of one member from each of the five districts into which 



