BY-LAWS OF THE INSTITUTION. 



Adopted December 13, 1904. 

 Article I. 



THE TRUSTEES. 



1. The Board of Trustees shall consist of twenty- four members, with 

 power to increase its membership to not more than twenty-seven members. 

 The Trustees shall hold office continuously and not for a stated term. 



2. In case any Trustee shall fail to attend three successive annual meetings 

 of the Board he shall thereupon cease to be a Trustee. 



3. No Trustee shall receive any compensation for his services as such. 



4. All vacancies in the Board of Trustees shall be filled by the Trustees 

 by ballot. No person shall be elected, however, who shall not have been 

 nominated at a preceding annual or special meeting, except by the unanimous 

 consent of the members present at a meeting. 



Article II. 



MEETINGS. 



1. The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be held in the City 

 of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the second Tuesday of Decem- 

 ber in each year. 



2. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the Executive Com- 

 mittee by notice served personally upon, or mailed to the usual address of, 

 each Trustee twenty days prior to the meeting. 



3. Special meetings shall, moreover, be called in the same manner by the 

 Chairman upon the written request of seven members of the Board. 



Article III. 



OFFICERS OP the board. 



1. The officers of the Board shall be a Chairman of the Board, a Vice- 

 Chairman, and a Secretary, who shall be elected by the Trustees, from the 

 members of the Board, by ballot to serve for a term of three years. All 

 vacancies shall be filled by the Board for the unexpired term ; provided, how- 

 ever, that the Executive Committee shall have power to fill a vacancy in the 

 office of Secretary to serve until the next meeting of the Board of Trustees. 



2. The Chairman shall preside at all meetings and shall have the usual 

 powers of a presiding officer. 



3. The Vice-Chairman, in the absence or disability of the Chairman, shall 

 perform his duties. 



4. The Secretary shall issue notices of meetings of the Board, record its 

 transactions, and conduct that part of the correspondence relating to the 



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