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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 meet- 

 ings, to act on all individual applications for membership 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 without specific vote 

 of the American Fisheries Society, the Section shall not commit 

 itself to any expression of public policy on fishing matters. 



