CONSTITUTION 



SECTION III.— (CONTRIBUTIONS.) 



1. The annual contribution of Ordinary and Associate Members shall be one 

 dollar ; all contributions to be due in advance on the first day of January in each year, 

 the payment of which shall entitle the member to a copy of all the publications of the 

 Society during the year. All new members, except those elected at and after the 

 Annual General Meeting and before the following first of January, shall be required to 

 pay the subscription for the year in which they are elected. 



-2. E^ery member shall be considered to belong to the Society, and as such be 

 liable to the payment of his annual contribution, until he has either forfeited his claim. 

 or has sitrniried to the Secretary in writing his desire to withdraw, when his name shall 

 he erased from the list of members. 



:}. Whenever any member shall be one year in arrear in the payment of his annual 

 c mtribution, the Secretary shall inform him of the fact in writing. Any member con- 

 tinuing two years in arrears shall be considered to have withdrawn from the Society, 

 and his name shall be erased from the list of members. 



4. Life and Honorary Members shall not be required to pay any annual contri- 

 bution. 



SECTION IV.— (OFFICERS.) 



1. The duties of the President shall be to preside at all meetings of the Society, 

 to preserve good order and decorum, and to regulate debates. 



2. The duties of the Vice-President shall be the same as those of the President 

 during his absence. 



3. The duties of the Secretary-Treasurer shall be to take and preserve correct 

 minutes of the proceedings of the Society, and to present and read all communications 

 addressed to the Society ; to notify members of their election, and those in arrear of 

 the amount of their indebtedness ; to keep a correct list of the members of the Society, 

 with the dates of their election, resignation, or death, and their addresses; to maintain 

 the correspondence of the Society, and to acknowledge all donations to it. He shall 

 also take charge of the funds of the Society, and keep an accurate account of all 

 receipts and disbursements, and of the indebtedness of the members, and render an 

 annual report of the same at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, in the manner 

 required by the Act respecting the Board of Agriculture and Arts. 



4. It shall be the duty of the Curator to take charge of all books, specimens, 

 cabinets, and other properties of the Society; to receive and arrange in their proper 

 places all donations of specimens: to keep a record of all contributions of books and 

 specimens, with a list of the contributors ; and to oversee and direct any exchange of 

 specimens. He shall, also, report annually to the Society on the condition of the speci- 

 mens and cabinets under his care. 



o. The Officers of the Society shall form a Council who shall have the direction 

 ••uid management of the affairs of the Society. The Council shall meet once in every 

 quarter, the time and place of meeting to be appointed by the President, and notice to 

 be iriven by the Secretary at least ten days beforehand. 



<!. The Council shall draw up a Yearly Report on the state of the Society, in 

 which shall he given an abstract of all the proceedings, and a duly audited account of 

 the receipts and expenditure of the Societv during their term of office ; and such 

 Report shall be read at the Annual General Meeting 



