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months, or longer, shall be exonerated from the payment of all 

 dues accruing during his absence. 



Sec. 8. If any person shall be balloted for and rejected, or 

 his name be withdrawn previously to the ballot, no entry of said 

 rejection or withdrawal shall be made on the minutes of the 

 Academy. 



Sec. 9. No person who has been proposed for membership 

 and who has for any reason failed to be elected, shall be again 

 proposed within the next six months. 



Sec. 10. Any member may resign by notifying the Record- 

 ing Secretary of such intention, provided he produces to the said 

 Secretary a certificate from the Treasurer that all arrears due 

 from him to the Academy have been discharged. 



Sec. 11. Members may be expelled from the Academy by a 

 vote of a majority (being not less than twelve) of the members 

 present, at any regular meeting, for any act of flagrant disrespect 

 to the officers or members, or for any intentional violation of the 

 constitution, or for any grossly immoral conduct : provided, how- 

 ever, that no member shall be thus expelled without having an 

 opportunity of being heard in his own defence. 



ARTICLE IV. 



OFFICERS. 



Section i. The officers of the Academy shall be chosen from 

 the associate members, and they shall consist of a President, 

 first and second Vice Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a 

 Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, a Board of Curators, and a 

 Librarian. Said officers shall be elected at the first stated meeting 

 in the year v by ballot, and shall hold their offices for one year, or 

 until their successors are elected. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the President to preside over 

 the meetings of the Academy ; to nominate all committees other 

 than those specially excepted ; to call extraordinary meetings at 

 the request, in writing, of three associate members ; to give the 

 casting vote, and to sign all orders on the Treasurer. 



Sec. 3. The duties of the ist Vice President shall be the same 

 as those of the President, during his absence ; and of the 2d Vice 

 President, the same during the absence of both President and 1st 

 Vice President. 



