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Sec. 14. Benefactors, Founders in Perpetuity, Founders, Associate 
Founders, Patrons, Life Members, Honorary Members, Permanent Fel- 
lows and Corresponding Members shall be exempt from annual due. 
ARTICLE VII. 
PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS. 
Sec. 1. A member’s ticket admits the member and his immediate 
family to the Park on reserve days, and to all lectures and special exhibi- 
tions, and may be used by the member’s immediate family, and shall be 
good for the current year. 
Sec. 2. Admission tickets to the Park and Aquarium on reserve days 
are issued to members for distribution, and are good for the current year. 
Sec. 3. Each member of the Society is entitled annually to a mem- 
ber’s ticket and to ten admission tickets. 
Sec. 4. Each member shall also receive one copy of the catalogue or 
handbook, the report and official publications of the Society, and shall 
have all the privileges of the Library and Members’ Building. 
Sec. 5. No member shall be entitled to the privileges enumerated in 
this Article unless his annual dues shall have been paid. 
Sec. 6. The Life Members shall have all the privileges of Members 
and ten additional admission tickets. 
Sec. 7. Benefactors, Founders in Perpetuity, Founders, Associate 
Founders and Patrons shall have all the privileges of Life Members, and 
Sea in addition receive copies of all scientific works published by the 
ociety. 
Sec. 8. Any member who shall fail to pay his annual dues within 
three months after the same shall have become due, and after notice of 
thirty days, by mail, shall cease to be a member of the Society; subject, 
however, to reinstatement by the Board of Managers or Executive Com- 
mittee for good cause shown. 
Sec. 9. Any person elected to membership who shall fail to qualify 
within three months after notice of his election shall be considered to have 
declined his election; but such term may be extended by the Board of 
Managers or Executive Committee. 
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FINANCES. 
Sec. 1. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be the calendar year 
commencing January Ist and ending December 3ist. 
Sec. 2. Neither the Society nor any of its Managers or Officers shall 
contract any debt which, with existing debts, shall exceed in amount the 
funds then in the Treasury, except to meet expenditures for which the city 
is liable, and for which the Society will be reimbursed by warrants from 
the Comptroller’s office. 
ARTICLE IX. 
AMENDMENTS. 
Sec. 1. Amendments to these By-Laws may be proposed, in writing, 
at any meeting of the Board of Managers, and adopted by unanimous con- 
sent of the Managers present, or if such proposed amendment shall fail 
to receive unanimous consent, the Secretary shall, with the notices of the 
next meeting, send a copy of it to each Manager and state that it will 
be brought up for action at such meeting, when it may be passed by a 
majority vote. 
