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WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Article III. — Meetings. 



Sec. I. The Annual Meeting shall be held on the third Thursday 

 of January each year. At this meeting the reports of the Secretary, 

 Treasurer, and Auditing Committee shall be presented and officers for 

 the ensuing year shall be elected. 



Sec. 2. Other meetings shall be held at such time and place as the 

 Board of Managers may determine. 



Sec. 3. Twenty resident members of the Academy shall constitute 

 a quorum for the transaction of business. 



Article IV. — Committees. 



Sec. I. The Board of Managers may appoint such standing and 

 special committees as it deems necessary. 



Sec. 2. The President shall appoint in advance of the annual meet- 

 ing an Auditing Committee consisting of 3 persons, none of whom 

 are officers, to audit the accounts of the Treasurer. 



Article V. — Elections. 



Sec. I. At each annual meeting there shall be elected by ballot a 

 President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and 3 Managers, who shall serve 

 until the close of the meeting at which their successors are chosen. 

 A majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to elect. Members 

 whose dues are in arrears for one year shall not be entitled to vote or 

 be eligible for any office in the Academy. 



Sec. 2. Resident members shall be elected by the members of the 

 Academy, and three-fourths of the votes cast shall be necessary to 

 elect. An election shall be void if the person elected does not within 

 3 months thereafter pay his annual dues or satisfactorily explain to 

 the Board of Managers his failure to do so. 



Sec. 3. Non-resident members, honorary members, and patrons 

 shall be elected by the Board of Managers, and three-fourths of the 

 votes cast shall be necessary to elect. The Board shall have power 

 to determine and change the status of resident members to non-resident. 



Article VI. — Cooper atio7i. 



Sec. I . The Academy may act as a federal head of the Affiliated 

 Scientific Societies of Washington, with power to conduct joint meet- 

 ings, publish a joint directory and joint notices of meetings, and take 

 action in any matter of common interest to the affiliated societies: 

 Provided It shall not have power to incur for or in the name of one 

 or more of these societies any expense or lir.bility not previously 

 authorized by said society or societies. 



Sec. 2. The term '■ affiliated societies ' shall be held to cover the 

 Anthropological, Biological, Chemical, Entomological, National 

 Geographic, Geological, Medical, and Philosophical Societies and 



