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CHAPTER XIV. 



OF THE LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Section 1. No statute, law, regulation, or ordinance shall 

 ever be made or passed by the Society, or be binding upon 

 the members thereof, or any of them, unless the same hath 

 been duly proposed and fairly drawn up in writing, at one 

 stated meeting of the Society, and enacted or passed at a 

 subsequent meeting, at least the space of fourteen days after 

 the former meeting, and upon due notice in some of the public 

 newspapers, that the enacting of statutes and laws, or the 

 making and passing ordinances and regulations, will be part of 

 the business of such meeting. 



2. Nor shall any statute, law, regulation, or ordinance be 

 then, or at any time, enacted or passed, unless thirteen mem- 

 bers of the Society be present in addition to the quorum of 

 the of&cers and council ; nor unless the same be voted by two- 

 thirds of the whole body present, 



3. The laws contained in the fourteen foregoing chapters, 

 shall be in force from and after the time of their adoption by 

 the Society ; and thereafter all other laws, regulations and 

 ordinances heretofore passed or made by the Society shall be 

 and the same are hereby repealed. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. J. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 



