390 PROCEEDINGS OF [1845. 



after their election eball render sucli election void. Each resident niomber shall 

 pay to tho Treasurer five dollars on his admission ; and five dollars on the first 

 Alonday of January of each year thereafter, to aid in defraying necessary expenses, 

 and for such other purposes as the Board of Management may direct. 



Art. XIII. No resident member shall vole at any stated meeting of the Insti- 

 tute, on any question whatever, who has not paid his subscription and annual dues, 

 or who shall not have attended a meeting of the Institute within one year previous 

 to suci) meeting. 



Art. XIV. The Institute shall have power to appoint Curators and others for 

 the preservation and arrangement of its collections. The resident and correspond- 

 ing members shall exert themselves to procure specimens of natural history, &c.; 

 and the said specimens shall be placed in the Cabinet, under the superintendence 

 of a Curator or Curators, so appointed. All such specimens, &.C., unless deposited 

 specially, shall remain in the Cabinet, and, in case of the dissolution of the Insti- 

 tute, shall become the property of the United .States. 



Art. XV. The resident members of the Institute shall be divided into such De. 

 I>nrtment9 as may hereafter be determined upon. The members composing each 

 department shall especially be charged with the subjects embraced therein, and 

 communicate to the Institute the result of tiieir inquiries; but every member shall 

 have the privilege of making such comnmnications as he may think proper on any 

 subject connected with the designs of the Institute. 



Art. XVI. Tho various collections of the Institute shall be placed in the 

 apartments which may be designed for that purpose by a majority of the Direc- 

 tors. 



Art. XVII. This Constitution, with the exceptions of Articles 6, 8, 10, 14, and 

 16, or so much thereof as relates to the office of Directors, their duties, privileges, 

 or powers, or the purposes or place of keeping of the collections of the Institute, 

 shall be subject to alterations and additions at any meeting of the Institute, provi- 

 (lc;d notice of a motion for such alteration or addition shall h;ive been given and 

 recorded at a preceding regular meeting. No alterations or amendments shall ever 

 be made in the articles above excepted, without the consent of a majority of the 

 Directors. 



Art. XVIII. A code of by-laws for the regulation of the business of the Board 

 of Management, and tho annual and other meetings of the Institute, and for mat- 

 ters relating to non-attendance, ])iivilcges, duties of officers, &c., shall be prepared 

 by a conimilloe to be appointed for that purpose. 



BY-LAWS. 

 article I. 



Sec. 1. Tho Recording Secretary shall give at least two weeks notice, in two or 

 more of the newspapers published in tho City of Washington, of every annual 

 meeting. 



Sec. 2. Stated and special meetings shall bo called by or through the Recording 

 Secretary . 



Sec. S. A quorum to do business shall consist of at least ten resident members 

 entitled to a vole. 



Sec. 4. A member introducing a stranger shall hand Iiis name and place of re- 

 sidence, in writing, to ihe presiding officer. 



Sec. 5. The order of business at stated. n)ectings shall be ae follows, viz: 1. 

 Reading the minutes. 2. Nomination of candidates for memberHhip. 3. Election 

 of candidates. 4. Notice of contributions and depositcs. 5. He:iding reports and 

 communications — 1. From olFieers of the Hoard of Management. II. From De- 

 p:irtments. III. From Committees. IV. From individual members — (a.) Hon- 

 orary. (i.) Corresponding, (c.) Resident. (>. E.vtraordinary business. 



Sec. 6. At the annual incctiug, the election of officers shall succeed to the 

 reading of reports. 



Sf.c. 7. At special meetings, the object for which the meeting was called sball 

 have precedence of all other matters after the reading of the minutes. 



Sec. 8. A suspensioji of the regular order of business for a 8|iecific purpose may, 

 nt any time, be had, two-thirds of the resident members present, who are onlilled to 

 it vote, concurring tlicii^in. 



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