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afford a reasonable prospect that they will be able effectually to maintam 

 the same. 



2d. It shall be the policy of this society in supervising the organization 

 of such local auxiliaries to secure an identity of constitutional provisions 

 throughout, and in so doing to insure harmony among them; but at the 

 same time it will not discourage the including by them of special or local 

 objects in cases in which such shall be found desirable, so long as the 

 introduction of the requisite provisions therefor into the constitution ajid 

 by-laws of the auxiliary society shall not be deemed likely to interfere 

 with the harmonious workings of the whole. 



3d. Any person may become a full member of an auxiliary society, for 

 one year, by paying into its treasury the sum of one dollar; and a com- 

 pliance with the provisions of clause fifth of these by-laws shall constitute 

 him also a member of this society for the same term. 



4th. The wife, and the resident single or unmarried daughters, of any 

 full member, may also become members of such auxiliary society upon the 

 payment of fifty cents each: Provided, That in such case such entire 

 family shall become entitled to a single copy, only, of the current volume 

 of the transactions of this society. 



5th. On receipt of the names of such members, with the required fees, 

 the secretary shall immediately transmit their names and postoffice 

 addresses, together with half the membership fee of each, to the secretary 

 of this society, who shall record the same and pay the money into the 

 treasury for the benefit of the general fund. 



6th. It shall be the duty of the secretary, on receipt of such remittance, 

 with list of members, to supply such auxiliary society with a certificate of 

 membership in this society for one year, together with a copy of the cur- 

 rent volume of transactions for each full member so remitted for. 



7th. The proceedings of such auxiliary society shall, at the close of the 

 year, be forwarded, in succinct form, to the secretary of this society, to be 

 by him incorporated into the annual volume of transactions, accompanied 

 by a list of its members for the year. 



8th. The auxiliary societies shall, so far as practicable, be made the 

 medium for the distribution of the annual volumes of the transactions of 

 the society, the nuclei for its meetings, and the means of creating interest 

 therein, as well as the means of collecting such facts or other information 

 or material as shall, from time to time, become needful or desirable in the 

 conducting of its various operations. 



XIII. — AMENDMENTS, ADDITIONS, SUSPENSIONS. 



1st. Amendments or additions to these by-laws may be made by a 

 majority vote of the executive board, at any meeting; but if objections 

 jshall be made the same shall " lie upon the table " till the next regular 

 meeting of the board. 



2d. These by-laws, or any one or more of them, may be suspended for 

 the time, by order of a majority of all the members of the society present 

 and voting. 



3d. A proposition in the general meeting of the society for an amend 

 ment or addition to these by-laws shall be referred to the executive board 

 for consideration and decision; but the society may submit therewith its 

 advice or request. 



