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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



One trustee representing the Pacific 

 Coast Chapter to serve 2 years, and 



One trustee representing the Mid-west 

 Chapter to serve 1 year. 



In January, 1931 : 



One trustee representing the Boston 

 Chapter to serve 2 years, and 



One trustee representing the Mid-west 

 Chapter to serve 2 years. 



In January, 1922 : 



One trustee representing the New 

 York Chapter to serve 2 years. 



One trustee representing the Pacific 

 Coast Chapter to serve 2 years, and 



One trustee representing the Minne- 

 sota Chapter to serve 2 years ; and, there- 

 after, any vacancy occurring in the Board 

 of Trustees by the expiration of a term 

 shall be filled for a succeeding term of 

 two years; provided that any newly ad- 

 mitted Chapter shall be entitled to have 

 a representative elected to the Board of 

 Trustees in the January next following 

 its admission and that the term of office 

 of the first representative shall be either 

 one year or two years as determined by 

 vote of the Board of Trustees in order to 

 secure the more perfect alternation of 

 the personnel of the Board. 



Sec. 10. Vacancies occurring in the 

 Board of Trustees or in any office be- 

 tween elections shall be filled by vote of 

 the Board but only for the balance of the 

 current year or until the next regular 

 election occurs, and such vacancies shall 

 then be filled in the usual way by the 

 affirmative ballots of the majority of the 

 Fellows and voting Members, either for 

 the remainder of an unexpired term or 

 for a new term, as the case may be. 



Sec. 11. The Board of Trustees shall 

 consider and report upon all business to 

 be acted upon by the Society ; shall es- 

 tablish rules for the regulation of its 

 proceedings; shall put into effect the 

 votes of the Society; shall be the cus- 



todian of all its property ; shall authorize 

 all contracts and expenditures, but shall 

 not incur any liabilities exceeding the 

 amounts of the unappropriated funds in 

 the hands of the Treasurer ; shall, through 

 the Examining Board, inquire into the 

 professional qualifications and personal 

 standings of all candidates for any 

 of the forms of membership shall 

 nominate candidates for office (see Sec- 

 tion 2 above of this Article) ; shall have 

 authority to create and abolish Standing 

 Committees and to appoint to them, and 

 to appoint and discharge Special Com- 

 mittees, to further the work of the So- 

 ciety ; shall have authority to delegate its 

 powers for the transaction of ordinary or 

 routine business to an Executive Com- 

 mittee, which shall exercise said powers 

 when the Board is not in session, all ac- 

 tions afifecting the policy of the Society 

 requiring a majority vote of the Board ; 

 shall examine and pass upon the consti- 

 tutions and by-laws of local organizations 

 seeking admission as chapters, and, when 

 satisfied, recommend the admission of 

 such organizations ; and shall perform 

 such other functions as are customary for 

 the Board of Directors or Trustees of a 

 corporation to perform, or as shall have 

 become customary for this Board of 

 Trustees, or may later be assigned or 

 delegated to it by the Fellows and voting- 

 Members of the Society. The formal ap- 

 proval and ratification of the acts of the 

 Board of Trustees shall be annually put 

 to the mail-ballot vote of the Fellows and 

 voting Members. 



Sec. 12. Meetings of the Board of 

 Trustees shall be called by the President 

 as frequently as, in his judgment, the 

 accumulation of business to be transacted 

 bv the Board shall demand, and at places 

 and times to be determined by him ; pro- 

 vided that the Board shall meet at least 

 once in every six months. 



