846 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 second or the fourth Wednesday, 

 or both, of each month not appointed for Stated Meetings, excepting 

 July, August, and September ; but no business shall be transacted at 

 any meeting which may be held on the fourth "Wednesday. 



Article 2. Twenty Fellows having the right to vote shall constitute 

 a quorum for the transaction of business at Stated or Special Meet- 

 ings. 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 without the consent of the 

 author ; and no report shall in any case be published by any Fellow in 

 a newspaper as an account of the proceedings of the Academy without 

 the previous consent and approval of the Council. 



Article 5. No Fellow shall introduce a guest at any meeting of 

 the Academy until after the business has been transacted, and espe- 

 cially until after nominations to Fellowship have been read and the 

 result of the balloting for candidates 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 Meeting called for the purpose, two thirds of the 

 ballots cast, and not less than twenty, must be affirmative to eff'ect 

 enactment. 



Article 8. Standing Votes may be passed, amended, or rescinded 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. iii. ; chap. iv. art. 3, 4, 5 ; chap. v. 

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



