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represent it in the transaction of any necessary business not especially pro- 
vided for in this constitution, in the interim between general meetings. 
Sec. 38. This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 
meeting by a three-fourths majority of the attending members.of at least 
one year’s standing. No question of amendment shall be decided on the 
day of its presentation. 
BY-LAWS. 
1. On motion, any special department of science shall be assigned to 
a curator, whose duty it shall be, with the assistance of the other members 
interested in the same department, to endeavor to advance knowledge in 
that particular department. Each curator shall report at such time and 
place as the Academy shall direct. These reports shall include a brief sum- 
mary of the progress of the department during the year preceding the 
presentation of the report. 
2. The President shall deliver a public address on the morning of one 
of the days of the meeting at the expiration of his term of office. 
3. The Press Secretary shall attend to the securing of proper news- 
paper reports of the meetings and assist the Secretary. 
4. No special meeting of the Academy shall be held without a notice 
of the same having been sent to the address of each member at least fifteen 
days before such meeting. 
5. No bill against the Academy shall be paid without an order signed 
by the President and countersigned by the Secretary. 
6. Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two 
years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the Treasurer, 
shall have their names stricken from the roll. 
7. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
business. 
