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Sec. 6. This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 
meeting, by a vote of three-fourths of attending members of at least 
one year’s standing. No question of amendment shall be decided on 
the day of its presentation. 
BY-LAWS. 
I. The first hour, or such part thereof as shall be necessary, in 
each session, shall be set aside for the transaction of the business of 
the Academy. The following order of business shall be observed as 
far as practicable : 
1. Opening. 
Reports of officers. 
Reports of standing committees. 
Appointment of special committees. 
Unfinished business. 
New business. 
Reports of special committees. 
Election of officers. 
Election of members. 
10, Program. 
11. Adjournment. 
II. The president shall deliver a public address on the evening of 
one of the days of the meeting, at the expiration of his term of office. 
III. No meeting of this Academy shall be held without a notice of 
the same having been published in the papers of the state at least 
thirty days previous. 
IV. No bill against the Academy shall be paid by the treasurer 
without an order signed by the president and secretary. 
V. Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two 
years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the treas- 
urer, shall have their names stricken from the roll. . 
VI. The secretary shall have charge of the distribution, sale and 
exchange of the published transactions of the Academy, under such 
restrictions as may be imposed by the executive committee. 
VII. Eight members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
of business. 
VIII. The time allotted to the presentation of a single paper shall 
not exceed fifteen minutes. 
IX. No paper shall be entitled to a place on the program unless 
the manuscript, or an abstract of the same, shall have been previously 
delivered to the secretary. 
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