652 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



CHAPTER XI 

 Meetings, Communications, and Amendments 



Article 1. There shall be annually eight Stated Meetings of the 

 Academy, namely, on the second Wednesday of October, November, 

 December, January, February, March, April and May. Only at 

 these meetings, or at adjournments thereof regularly notified, or at 

 Special Meetings called for the purpose, shall appropriations of money 

 be made or amendments of the Statutes or Standing Votes be effected. 



The Stated Meeting in May shall be the Annual Meeting of the 

 Corporation. 



Special Meetings shall be called by either of the Secretaries at the 

 request of the President, of a Vice-President, of the Council, or of ten 

 Fellows having the right to vote; and notifications thereof shall state 

 the purpose for which the meeting is called. 



A meeting for receiving and discussing literary or scientific com- 

 munications may be held on the fourth Wednesday of each month, 

 excepting July, August, and September; but no business shall be 

 transacted at said meetings. 



Article 2. Twenty Fellows having the right to vote shall consti- 

 tute a quorum for the transaction of business at Stated or Special 

 Meetings. Fifteen Fellows shall be sufficient to constitute a meeting 

 for literary or scientific communications and discussions. 



Article 3. Upon the request of the presiding officer or the Record- 

 ing Secretary, any motion or resolution offered at any meeting shall 

 be submitted in writing. 



Article 4. No report of any paper presented at a meeting of the 

 Academy shall be published by any Fellow without the consent of 

 the author; and no report shall in any case be published by any 

 Fellow in a newspaper as an account of the proceedings of the Acad- 

 emy without the previous consent and approval of the Council. The 

 Council, in its discretion, by a duly recorded vote, may delegate its 

 authority in this regard to one or more of its members. 



Article 5. No Fellow shall introduce a guest at any meeting of 

 the Academy until after the business has been transacted, and espe- 



