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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 continue 

 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 Sicretary, 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 inter- 

 ests of the society, to watch over its finances, and to provide for its necessi- 

 ties 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 con- 

 dition, interests, and prospects of the society as it shall judge necessary or 

 expedient. 



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, 

 without reason satisfactory to the board, the said board, may, in its discre- 

 tion, consider the office vacant, and proceed to fill such vacancy by appoint- 

 ment, 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 Sec- 

 retary for payment, shall, before payment, receive the sanction and endorse- 

 ment 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 warraftt 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 expendi- 

 ture for which occasion may arise during such recess. 



VIII. — STANDING COMMITTEES. 



1st. There shall be a Standing Committee ' on Revision of the Catalogue, 

 to be composed of one member from each of the five districts into which the 

 State is, for this purpose, divided, with one member chosen from the State 

 at large, who shall be the chairman of the committee. 



2d. Each member of said committee (except the chairman) is empowered 



