BY-LAWS OF THE INSTITUTION. 



Adopted December 13, 1904. Amended December 13, 1910, and December 13, 1912. 



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 meet- 

 ings 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. Sixty days prior to an annual or a special meeting of the Board, 

 the President shall notify the Trustees by mail of the vacancies to be filled 

 and each Trustee may submit nominations for such vacancies. A list of the 

 persons so nominated, with the names of the proposers, shall be mailed to the 

 Trustees thirty days before the meeting, and no other nominations shall be 

 received at the meeting except with the unanimous consent of the Trustees 

 present. Vacancies shall be filled from the persons thus nominated, but no 

 person shall be declared elected unless he receives the votes of two-thirds of 

 the Trustees present. 



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 first Friday following the 

 second Thursday of December 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 OF 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. 



