BY-LAWS. XV 



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 officers, 

 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 con- 

 tinue till the next annual election. 



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

 the times and places 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 farther report upon the condi- 

 tion, interests, and prospects of the society as it shall judge necessary or ex- 

 pedient. 



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, with- 

 out reason satisfactory to the board, the said board may, in its discretion, con- 

 sider the office vacant, and proceed to fill such vacancy by appointment, 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 Secre- 

 tary for payment, shall, before payment, receive the sanction and endorsement 

 of the Business Committee. 



3d. Such claims shall be submitted to this committee and approved 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 President, 

 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 expenditure for 

 which occasion may arise during such recess. 



