By-Laws of the Academy. 13 



OPFICEKS. 



Skctiox 9. The officers of the Academy shall be: a President, who 

 shall be ex-officio President of each of the Departments; one Vice-Presi- 

 dent for each Department; a General Secretary; a General Treasurer; a 

 Director of the Museum, and a General Librarian. 



Section 10. The officers of each Dei)artment shall be a Vice-Presi- 

 dent, who shall be e.r-officio a Vice-President of the Academy; a Secreta- 

 ry, and such other officers as may be created by the General Council. 



Section 11. The officers of the Academy and the Departments shall 

 hold their respective offices for the term of three years, and until their 

 successors are elected. 



Section 12. The first election of officers under this Constitution 

 shall be hy its members at the first meeting of the Academy. 



Section 18. The duties of officers and the mode of their election, 

 after the first election, as likewise the frequency, place and date of all 

 meetings, shall be prescribed in the By-Laws of the Academy, which 

 shall be framed and adopted by the General Council. 



Section 14. No compensation shall be paid to any person whatever, 

 and no expenses incurred for any person or object whatever, except un- 

 der the authority of the Council. 



AMENDMENT. 



Section 15. Every proposition to alter or amend this constitution 

 shall be submitted in writing at a regular meeting; and if two-thirds of 

 the members present at the next regular meeting vote in the affirmative, 

 it shall be adopted . 



BY-LAWS. 



election op members, 



1. Candidates for membership must be proposed in writing, by a mem- 

 ber, to the General Council and referred to a Committee on Nominations; 

 which Committee may nominate to the Academy. A majority vote shall 

 elect. Honorary and corresponding members must be persons who have 

 rendered some marked service to Science, the Arts, or Letters, or to the 

 Academy. 



meetings. 



2. The regular meetings of the Academy shall be held as follows: 



On the 2d Tuesday in Februarys at the seat of the Academy; and in 

 July, at such place and exact date as shall be fixed by the Council; the 

 first named to be the Annual Meeting. The hour shal'l be designated by 

 the Secretary in the notice of the meeting. At any regular meeting, ten 

 members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction'of business. Spe- 

 cial meetings may be called by the President at his discretion, or by re- 

 quest of any five members of the General Council. 



