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failure of qualified candidates so nominated, one of others not so 

 nominated may be elected. The duties of the librarian shall be 

 prescribed by the rules of administration and order of the Society. 



Chapter IX. 



OF THE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Section i. The stated meetings of the Society shall be on the 

 first and third Fridays of every month from October to May inclu- 

 sive, at eight o'clock in the evening. Special meetings may be 

 called at any time by order of the president ; or, in his absence or 

 disability, by order of a vice-president. And it shall not be lawful 

 to take up, consider or transact at such special meeting any business 

 other than that which is specified in the call and the notice for the 

 meeting. Should the time for any stated meeting, other than the 

 meeting on the day of an annual election, fall on a legal holiday, 

 such meeting shall not be held on that day, but shall be held on the 

 next Friday. 



- 2. Twenty qualified voters, of whom seven shall be members of 

 the officers and council, present at any stated or special meeting, 

 shall be a quorum, and be competent to elect members, dispose of 

 property, appropriate money, and award premiums ; but no property 

 shall be alienated or encumbered, except by the vote of three-fourths 

 of the qualified voters present, and given at two successive stated 

 meetings. For the transaction of the ordinary business, the recep- 

 tion and reference of communications on literary, scientific, or other 

 subjects, the members present shall be deemed competent to act, 

 and shall form a quorum. 



3. Those members shall be considered qualified voters at the 

 meetings who have subscribed the roll and paid the admission fee, 



and who are not in arrears to the Society. 



Chapter X. 



OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 



Section i. There shall be chosen, at the stated meeting on the 

 third Friday of January in each year, three members of the Society 

 to be a committee of finance, five to be a committee of publication, 

 three to be a committee on the hall, and five to be a committee on 

 the library. Such other committees may be constituted from time 

 to time as the Society shall think expedient. 



