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Article II. — officf.rs and thkir duties. 



Skction \. The President shall preside at the meetings of the 

 Society, and of the Executive Board, and perform such other duties 

 as usually pertain to the office. 



Sf.ci ION 2. The Vice-Presidents shall perform the duties of 

 the President in his absence, in the order of seniority in oflice. 



Section 3. The Secretary shall record and preserve correct 

 minutes of the proceedings of the Society, and the Executive Board, 

 in books to be kept for that purpose; shall have the charge of all 

 records belonging to the Society; shall notify members of their 

 election, and committees of their appointmert; shall call si)ecial 

 meetings, when directed by the President; and shall notify all ac- 

 tive members of all meetings, and officers of all matters which shall 

 occur at any meeting requiring their action. He shall also conduct 

 the correspondence of the Society, and shall keep a record thereof, 

 shall keep the common seal, acknowledge all donations, and re- 

 ceive and read to the Society all communications addressed to it. 



Section 4. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money or 

 other property of the Society, excepting the Museum and its con- 

 tents, and excepting also such property as may be placed by the So- 

 ciety or the Executive Board in the hands of the Trustees; shall 

 collect all fees and assessments, and receive all donations in money 

 which may be made to it; shall pay all accounts against the Society 

 when the same shall be approved by a vote of the Executive Board; 

 shall keep a correct account of all receipts and expenditures, in 

 books- belonging to the Society; and shall at each annual meeting, 

 and at other times when recjuired by the Executive Board, make a 

 detailed report of the same. He shall notify members, who are in 

 arrears, of their indebtedness to the Society, and shall repbrt all 

 delinquencies to the Executive Board annually. 



Section 5. The Librarian shall have charge of the books be- 

 longing to the Society, or deposited for its use, and of the publica- 

 tions of the Society}'; he shall observe and enforce such regulations 

 as the Executive Board shall from time to time make for the use of 

 the books. He shall have charge of the distribution, sale and ex- 

 change of the jiublications of the Society, under the direction of 

 the Executive Board. 



Section 6. The Curators shall be cx-fficio Chairmen of the 

 Sections, in their respective branches of Science. There shall be 

 one Curator for each of the following-named branches : Geology, 



