456 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Fellows having the right to vote; and notifications thereof shall state 

 the purpose for which the meeting is called. 



A meeting for receiving and discussing literary or scientific com- 

 munications may be held on the fourth Wednesday of each month, 

 excepting July, August, and September; but no business shall be 

 transacted at said meetings. 



Article 2. Twenty Fellows having the right to vote shall consti- 

 tute a quorum for the transaction of business at Stated or Special 

 Meetings. Fifteen Fellows shall be sufficient to constitute a meeting 

 for literary or scientific communications and discussions. 



Article 3. Upon the request of the presiding officer or the Record- 

 ing Secretary, any motion or resolution offered at any meeting shall 

 be submitted in writing. 



Article 4. No report of any paper presented at a meeting of the 

 Academy shall be published by any Fellow or Resident Associate 

 without the consent of the author; and no report shall in any case be 

 published by any Fellow or Resident Associate in a newspaper as an 

 account of the proceedings of the Academy without the previous 

 consent and approval of the Council. The Council, in its discretion, 

 by a duly recorded vote, may delegate its authority in this regard to 

 one or more of its members. 



Article 5. No Fellow or Resident Associate shall introduce a 

 guest at any meeting of the Academy until after the business has been 

 transacted, and especially until after the result of the balloting upon 

 nominations has been declared. 



Article 6. The Academy shall not express its judgment on 

 literary or scientific memoirs or performances submitted to it, or 

 included in its Publications. 



Article 7. All proposed Amendments of the Statutes shall be re- 

 ferred to a committee, and on its report, at a subsequent Stated Meet- 

 ing or at a Special INIeeting called for the purpose, two thirds of the 

 ballot cast, and not less than twenty, must be affirmative to efiect 

 enactment. 



Article S. Standing Votes may be passed, amended, or rescinded 

 at a Stated Meeting, or at a Special Meeting called for the purpose, 

 by a vote of two thirds of the members present. They may be 

 suspended by a unanimous vote. 



See Chap. ii. art. 5, 8; chap, ill.; chap. iv. art. 3, 4, 5; chap. v. art. 1; 

 chap. vi. art. 1, 2; chap. ix. art. 8. 



