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Executive Committee. Otlier meetings may be called at the discretion 

 of the Executive Committee. The past Fresidents, together with the 

 officers and Executive Committee, sliall constitute tlie Council of the 

 Academy, and represent it in the transaction of any necessary l)usiness 

 not specially provided for in tliis constitution, in the interim between 

 general meetings. 



Sec. o. This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 

 meeting by a three-fourths majority of the attending members of at least 

 one year's standing. No question of amendment sliall l»e decided on the 

 day of its presentation. 



BY-LAWS. 



1. On motion, any special dci)artment of science shall be assigned to a 

 curator, whose duty it shall l)e. with the assistance of the other members 

 interested in the same department, to endeavor to advance knowledge in 

 that particular department. Each curator shall report at such time and 

 place as the Academy shall direct. These reports sliall include a l)rief 

 summary of the progress of the department during the year preceding the 

 presentation of the report. 



2. The I'resident shall deliver a public address on the morning of one 

 of the days of the meeting at the expiration of his term of office. 



3. The Press Secretary shall attend to the securing of proper news- 

 paper reports of the meetings and assist the Secretary. 



4. No special meeting of the Academy shall be held without a notice 

 of the same having ))een sent to the address of each member at least 

 fifteen days before such meeting. 



5. No bill against the Academy shall be paid without an order signed 

 1)y the President and countersigned by the Secretary. 



(>. Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two 

 years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the Treasurer, 

 shall have their names striclKcn from the roll. 



7. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 

 business. 



