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pose of corresponding with any other society, or persons, 

 touching the objects which this society has in view. The 

 same members shall also be a committee of accounts, to re- 

 ceive and adiust all claims against the society, for its contin- 

 gent expences ; and the president shall give orders on the 

 treasurer ior the payment oi them. 



IX. 



The stated meetings of the society shall be on the second 

 Tuesday of every month. 



X. 



The members of the society shall be distinguished into 

 resident and honorary members. The twenty-three persons 

 named when the society was first proposed to be instituted, 

 and whose names are entered in the minutes of the eleventh 

 of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, 

 are resident members, according to the eighth article of the 

 first laws oj the society, enacted on the fifteenth of March, 

 one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five. All resident 

 members, afterwards added to the society, were, and shall 

 continue to be, of person* residing within a convenient dis- 

 tance to attend the meetings o the society at Philadelphia; 

 and these are defined to be such only as, at the time of elec- 

 tion, reside within ten miles of the said city, on either side 

 of the Delaware. All members of agricultural societies in 

 other states and countries, with whom we shall correspond, 

 and all persons of this state, and of other states and coun- 

 tries, who shall be elected by us for the purpose, shall be ho- 

 norary members ; and are hereby invited to assist at our 

 meetings, whenever they come to Philadelphia. Strangers 

 who desire to be present, as auditors, may be introduced by 

 a resident member. 



XL 



New members, whether resident or honorary^ shall be elect- 

 ed by ballot. And the secretary shall issue notice to each 



