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Article II. — Of Officers and their Duties. 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president, in addition to the ordinary duties 

 of a presiding officer, to prepare and deliver an annual address, to be delivered at the 

 annual meetiug over which he jjresides. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary to provide the necessary stationery 

 and sucli books as he may be directed to provide, the expenses for which shall be met 

 by an assessment of not less than 25 cents on the members in attendance at the meet- 

 ings. The sum so collected shall be used by the secretary to re-imburse himself for 

 advances made and to meet the ordinary expenses of the association. An account 

 shall be rendered at each annual meeting, and if needed, an additional assessment 

 shall be imposed. 



Sec. 3. All officers shall be elected by ballot after open nomination, and this by-law 

 shall not be suspended except by unanimous consent of the voting members present. 



AuTiCLE III. — Of Meetings. 



Section 1. Notice of the time and place of meetings shall be published in all the 

 American entomological periodicals and in Insect Life. 



Sec. 2. Special meetings shall be called as provided for in the constitution, and 

 notice of such meetings shall be given by the secretary by mailing to each voting 

 member a formal specification of the time and place of meetiug at least two weeks 

 before the date fixed in the notice. The notice shall state the reason for such meet- 

 ing, and shall specify the business to be transacted, and no other business shall be 

 transacted. 



Sec. 3. The order of business at regular meetings shall be, at the first session : 



(1) Calling the meeting to order by the president. 



(2) The annual address by the president. 



(3) Reports of officers. 



(4) Reports of committees. 



(.5) Proposal and election of members. 

 (C) Written business communications. 



(7) Verbal business communications. 



(8) New business. 



(9) Programme of papers and discussions. 

 (10) Adjournment. 



On the following sessions : 



(1) Reading and action on the minutes of previous meetings. 



(2) Unfinished business. 



(3) Proposal and election of members. 



(4) New business. 



(5) Programme of papers and discussions. 



(6) Adjournment. 



At the last session of the meeting the order of busiuess shall be as at other sessions 

 except that after order 5 will come : 



(6) Election of officers for the next meeting. 



(7) Fixing time and place of next meeting. 



(8) Reading and action on rough minutes of the entire sessioE. 



(9) Final adjournment. 



Article IV. — Amendments to By-laics. 



Section 1. Changes in these by-laws may be made at any regular meeting in the 

 same manuer and on the same notice as prescribed in the constitution for amend- 

 ments to that instrument. 



The association then adjourned until 1.30 p. ra. 



