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Patrons. — Any person, society, club, firm or corporation, 

 on approval by the Executive Committee and on payment of 

 $50.00, may become a Patron of this Society with all the 

 privileges of a life member, and then shall be listed as such in 

 all published lists of the Society. The money thus received 

 shall become part of the permanent funds of the Society and 

 the interest alone be used as the Society shall designate. 



Honorary and Corresponding Members. — Any person can 

 be made an honorary or a corresponding member upon a two- 

 thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting. 



The President (by name) of the United States and the 

 Governors (by name) of the several states shall be honorary 

 members of the Society. 



Election of Members Between Annual Meetings. — The 

 President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer of the Society 

 are hereby authorized, during the time intervening between 

 annual meetings, to act on all individual applications for mem- 

 bership in the Society, a majority vote of the Committee to 

 elect or reject such applications as may be duly made. 



ARTICLE III 



SECTIONS 



On presentation of a formal written petition signed by one 

 hundred or more members, the Executive Committee of the 

 American Fisheries Society may approve the formation in 

 any region of a Section of the American Fisheries Society to 

 be known as the Section. 



Such a Section may organize by electing its own officers, 

 and by adopting such rules as are not in conflict with the 

 Constitution and By-Laws of the American Fisheries Society. 



It may hold meetings and otherwise advance the general 

 interests of the Society, except that the time and place of its 

 annual meeting must receive the approval of the Executive 

 Committee of the American Fisheries Society, and that with- 

 out specific vote of the American Fisheries Society, the Section 



