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(2) The president shall deliver an address at the annnal eonvention hefore 

 the association in general session. 



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

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

 ventions and meetings, act for the association in all mattei*s of business. It 

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

 sixty days before the date on which they are to be held, and for special meetings 

 not less than ten days before such date. It shall b(> charged with the general 

 arrangements and conduct of all meetings called l)y it. It shall designate the 

 time and place of the convention ; it shall jn-esent a well-prepared order of busi- 

 ness — of subjects for discussion— and shall provide and arrange for the meet- 

 ings of the several sections. The subjects provi<lc(l for consideration l)y each 

 section at any convention of the association shall conciMitrate the deliberations 

 of the sections upon not more than two lines of discnssiim. wliich lines as far 

 as possible shall l>e related. Not more than one-third of tlie worlcing 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 exi)enses. and may, by ap- 

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

 membership; and no institution shall be entitled to representation or participa- 

 tion in the benefits of the association unless such institution sliall liave made 

 the designated contribution for the year previous to tliat in and for wliich such 

 question of privilege shall arise, or shall have said payment remitted by the 

 unanimous vote of the executive committee. 



AMENDMENTS. 



This constitution may be amended at any regular convention of the association 

 by a two-thirds vote of the delegates present, if the number constitute a (piorum : 

 Provided, That notice of any proposed 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 rejec- 

 tion shall be taken by yeas and nays of the institutions then and tliere 

 represented. 



RULES OF ORDER. 



(1) The executive committee shall be charged with the order of business, 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 submitted 

 tor consideration of the convention shall be read and then referred, without 

 debate, to the executive committee, to be assigned positions on the programme. 



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

 each. 



(4) In genei'al discussions the ten-minute rule shall l)e 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. 



