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issue its call for the annual conventions of the association not less than sixty 

 (lays before the date on which they are to he held and, for special meetings, not 

 less than ten days before such date. It shall be charged with the general ar- 

 rangements and conduct of all meetings called by it. It shall designate the 

 time and place of the convention ; it shall present a well-prepared order of 

 I>usiness — of .stibjects for discussion — and shall provide and arrange for the 

 meetings of the several sections. The subjects provided for consideration by 

 each section at any convention of the association shall concentrate the delibera- 

 tions of the sections upon not more than two lines of discussion, which lines a.-? 

 far as possible shall be related. Not more than one-third of the worlving time 

 of any annual convention of the association shall be confined to miscellaneous 

 business. 



FINANCES. 



At every annual convention the association, in general session, shall provide 

 for obtaining the funds necessary for its legitimate expenses, and may, by appro- 

 priate action, call for contributions upon the several institutions eligible to 

 membership; and no institution shall be entitled to representation or particij»a- 

 tion in the benefits of the association unless such institution shall have made 

 the designated contribution for the year previous to that in and for which such 

 question of privilege shall arise, or shall have said paj-ment remitted by the 

 unanimous vote of the executive committee. 



AMENDMENTS. 



This constitution may be amended at any regular convention of the associa- 

 tion by a two-thirds vote of the delegates present, if the number constitute a 

 quDruni : J'rrn-i'lrd. That notice of any i)roposed amendment, together with the 

 full text thereof and the name of the mover, shall have been given at the next 

 preceding annual convention, and repeated in the call for the convention. Every 

 such proposition of amendment shall be subject to modification or amendment 

 in the same manner as other propositions, and the final vote on the adoption or 

 rejection shall be taken by yeas and nays of the institutions then and there 

 represented. 



Rules of Order. 



(1) The executive committee shall be charged with the order of busine.ss. sub- 

 ject to special action of the convention, and this committee may report at any 

 time. 



(2) All business or topics proposed for discussion and all resolutions sub- 

 mitted for consideration of the convention shall be read and then referred,. 

 without debate, to the executive committee, to be assigned jiositions on the 

 programme. 



(3) Speakers iaivited to open discussion shall be entitled to twenty minutes 

 each. 



(4) In general discussions the ten-minute rule shall be enforced. 



(.5) No speaker shall be recognized a second time on any one subject while 

 any delegate who has not spoken thereon desires to do so. 



(0) The hours of meeting and adjournment adopted with the general pro- 

 gramme shall be closely observed, unless changed by a two-thirds vote of the 

 delegates present. 



(7) The ijresiding officer shall enforce the parliamentary rules usual in such 

 assemblies and not inconsistent with the foregoing. 



(8) Vacancies which may arise in the membership of standing committees by 

 death, resignation, or separation from the association, of members, shall be 

 filled bv the committees, respectively. 



