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(2) Members of these two sections (and no others) shall be entitled to vote 

 both in general sessions and in the section to which they respectively belong. 



The representative appointed by the U. S. Bureau of Education shall be as- 

 signed to the section on college work and administration ; the representative of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations to the section on experiment station work ; 

 and the representative of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to either section 

 as he may elect and the section by vote authorize ; but such election once made 

 and authorized may not be changed during the sessions of a given convention. 



Each section may create such divisions as it may from time to time find de- 

 sirable, and shall elect its own chairman and secretary for sectional meetings, 

 whose names shall be reported to the association for record. 



(3) Each section shall conduct its own proceedings, and shall keep a record 

 of the same, and no action of a section, by resolution or otherwise, shall be 

 valid until the same shall have been ratified by the a.ssociation in general ses- 

 sion and, in the case provided for in the foregoing paragraph (1), shall also 

 have been approved by the section on college work and administration. 



MEETINGS. 



(1) This association shall hold at least one meeting in every calendar year, 

 to be designated as the annual convention of the association. Special meetings 

 may be held at other times, upon the call of the executive committee, for pur- 

 poses to be specified in the call. 



(2) The annual convention of the association shall comprise general sessions 

 and meetings of the sections and provision shall lie made therefor in the pro- 

 gramme. Unless otherwise determined by vote, the association will meet in 

 general session in the forenoons and evenings of the convention and the sections 

 in the afternoons. 



OFFICERS. 



(1) The general officers of this association, to be chosen annually, shall be a 

 president, five vice-presidents, a bibliographer, and a secretary, who shall also be 

 treasurer ; and an executive committee of five members, three of whom shall be 

 chosen by the section on college work and administration and two by the sec- 

 tion on experiment station work: I'rovidcil, hoicerer. That a member chosen by 

 either section need not be a member of that section. The executive committee 

 shall choose its own chairman. 



(2) Each section shall, by ballot, nominate to the association in general ses- 

 sion for its action, a chairman and a secretary for such section. 



(3) The president, vice-presidents, secretary, and bibliographer of this asso- 

 ciation shall be elected by ballot upon nomination made upon the floor of the 

 (•onvention, and shall hold office from the close of the convention at which they 

 are elected until their successors shall be chosen. 



(4) Any person being an accredited delegate to an annual meeting of the 

 association, or an officer of an institution which is a member of the association 

 in full standing at the time of election, shall be eligible to office. 



DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 



(1) The officers of the association shall perfijrm the duties which usually 

 devolve upon their respective offices. 



(2) The president shall deliver an address at the annual convention before 

 the association in general session. 



(3) The executive committee shall determine the time and place of the annual 

 conventions and other meetings of the association, and shall, between such con- 

 \ entions and meetings, act for the association in all matters of business. It shall 



