■which shall be purchased with the accruing interest of the above 

 sum, and is entitled to select such specimens as he may desire 

 from among those offered for sale by the Section, to an amount 

 not exceeding one fourth of the above sum annually, upon pay- 

 ng for them one half the affixed price of specimens. 



— Director. — Treasurer. 



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 Art. III. In addition to the above, temporary funds may be 

 established from time to time for specific explorations and col- 

 lections. Of the results of these, the first series will be ]'etained 

 for the museum, and when numerous, a few series will be sold for 

 its benefit, while the balance, properly labelled, will be divided 

 prorata among the subscribers. 



CHAPTER IX. 



FEES, CONTRIBUTIONS, ETC., PAYABLE BY MEMBERS. 



Art. I. Every member elect shall pay to the Treasurer an 

 initiation fee of two dollars, prior to signing the obligation. 



Art. II. Every member shall be subject to a semi-annual 

 contribution of one dollar, payable at the stated meetings in 

 June and December. 



Art. III. But any member who shall pay to the Treasurer 

 twenty-five dollars, shall be exempt from all future semi-annual, 

 contributions. 



Art. IV. The Treasurer, with the sanction of the auditors, 

 shall be authorized to exempt any member, on his application, 

 from the payment of such semi-annual contributions as may 

 become due from him, while absent from the district including 

 Philadelphia, and thirty miles around it, during any period of 

 not less than six months. But no member who at the time of 

 his admission is domiciled beyond the limits of said district, shall 

 be exempt from the payment of semi-annual contributions. 



Art. V. No pecuniary contributions shall be required from 

 correspondents. 



Art. VI. But no engraved diploma of membership shall be 

 issued to either members or correspondents, except upon pay- 

 ment of a diploma fee of five dollars. 



