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Sec. 2. The president and treasurer shall be empowered to exempt 

 Qiuh dleniio) a member from assessment, when, from peculiar circum- 

 stances, they may deem it for tlje interest of the society so to do. 



ARTICLE IV. — OF THE LIBRARY. 



Section 1. Members and patrons of tlie society only shall have 

 access to or take books from the library, but the council may, by 

 special vote, extend the use of books to others than members, specifying 

 the conditions under which they may be taken. 



Sec. 2. The rules and regulations of the council, for the use of 

 the library, shall be printed and exposed in the library rooms, and a 

 digest of them affixed to the volumes themselves. 



ARTICLE V. — OF THE MUSEUM. 



Section 1. Members of all classes, and the public generally, shall 

 have access to the museum, at ■ such times as the council shall 

 determine. 



Sec. 2. No specimens shall be removed from the museum, without 

 the leave of the custodian and the curator of the department to 

 which they belong, Avho shall take a receipt for the same, and be 

 responsible for their restoration in good order. 



article VI. — OF committees. 



Section. 1. The committee on publications shall, from time to time, 

 cause to be published, and superintend the publication of such papers 

 read to the society, and such portions of the records of the proceedings, 

 as may seem to them calculated to promote the interests of science, so 

 far as the funds appropriated by the council shall permit, it being 

 understood that the committee shall not be held responsible for any 

 opinion expressed in said publications. The said committee shall also 

 have authority to effect exchanges for other scientific publications. 



Sec. 2. The council shall, previous to every annual meeting, 

 appoint a committee whose duty it shall be to audit the accounts of 

 receipts and expenditures of the corporation. 



article VII. — OF lectures. 



Section 1. Public lectures, Avhen adjudged expedient by the 

 council, may be given under the auspices of the society. 



article VIII. — OF meetings. 



Section 1. A meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday in April, 



annually, for the choice of officers and other general purposes ; at this 



meeting an annual report, embodying the several reports of the 



curators and librarian shall be read by the custodian, and a report 



