1898.] MINUTES. 161 



Chapter XII, 



OF THE LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Section i. 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, and in notices sent by mail to the 

 members whose addresses shall have been furnished to the secreta- 

 ries, that the enacting of statutes and laws, or the making and pass- 

 ing 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 twenty members of the 

 Society be present in addition to the quorum of the officers and 

 council ; nor unless the same be voted by two-thirds of the whole 

 body present. 



Ordinance No. i. 



It is hereby ordained and declared that the foregoing twelve 

 chapters shall be hereafter the laws of the Society. And all laws 

 heretofore existing on the subjects embraced in the said twelve 

 chapters and all ordinances, regulations, rules and orders inconsis- 

 tent therewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 



Ordinance No. 2. 



And it is further hereby ordained that all laws, regulations and 

 orders of the Society not embraced in the foregoing provisions 

 shall, for the time being, stand and be in force as the rules of ad- 

 ministration and order of the Society until they shall be repealed or 

 changed in conformity with the provisions of Chapter XI of the 

 laws now enacted. 



Mr. Edmunds moved that tbe Chair appoint a Committee 

 of five members to report at the earliest practicable oppor- 

 tmiitv a bodv of rules of administration and order of the 

 Society. Carried. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXVII. 157. K. PRINTED JULY 6, 1898. 



