BY-LAWS. 15 
CHAPTER XIV.—Of General Provisions. 
1. No expenditure shall be made on behalf of the Academy, un- 
less authorized by a vote of the Council. 
2. All bills submitted to the Council must be approved by the 
officers incurring them. 
3. Any member or fellow may be censured, suspended, or expelled, 
for violation of the Constitution or By-Laws, or for any other of- 
fence deemed sufficient, by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
and three-fourths of the fellows present at any regular business 
meeting; provided that such action shall have been recommended 
by the Council at a regular business meeting, and one month’s no- 
tice of such recommendation, and of the offence charged, shall have 
been given the member accused. 
4. No alteration shall be made in these By-Laws, unless such al- 
teration be submitted publicly in writing, at a regular business 
meeting, be entered on the minutes with the names of the members 
or fellows proposing the same, and be adopted by two-thirds of the 
members and two-thirds of the fellows present at a subsequent regu- 
lar business meeting. 
