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Article third. It shall be composed of resident, corresponding and hono- 

 rary members. 



Article fourth. The resident members shall be persons residing in the 

 District of Columbia; corresponding members shall be persons residing out 

 of the District of Columbia, who wish to aid the institution by their con- 

 tributions or communications ; and the class of honorary members shall be 

 composed of eminent men residing out of the District of Columbia. 



Article fifth. Resident members removing from the District of Colum- 

 bia, shall, on request, be transferred to the list of corresponding members, 

 and vice versa; but any corresponding member may, at his" option, be 

 recorded and considered a resident member. 



Article sixth. The officers of the institution shall consist of a president, 

 vice-president, twelve directors, a treasurer, a corresponding, and a record- 

 ing secretary : Provided, That no member shall hold more than one of the 

 offices created by this article at the same time, but, that an acceptance of 

 one, shall be construed as refusal of all others. 



Article seventh. The officers shall constitute a board of management of 

 the fiscal concerns of the institution ; and any five members of the board 

 shall be a quorum for the transaction of ordinary business. 



Article eighth. The secretaries of the departments of State, Treasury, 

 War, and Navy, and the Attorney General, and Postmaster General of the 

 United States, for the time being, shall, with their consent, be directors of 

 the institution; but, upon the refusal of one or more of them to accede to 

 the request of the institution, such director or directors shall be chosen in 

 the same manner as herein provided for the appointment of other oflin-r.-. 

 The officers shall be elected for the term of one year, or until their success- 

 ors shall be appointed, from among the resident members of the institution. 

 This election shall take place at the annual meeting ; and each member, 

 who is duly qualified, and shall be present at such meeting, shall have a 

 vote in said election. 



Article ninth. The annual meeting shall be held on the first Monday in 

 each year, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient ; the stated meetings 

 on the second Monday in each month, and special meetings whenever five 

 resident members shall concur in a request to that effect. 



Article tenth. The president, vice-president, or, in their absence, one of 

 the directors, in order of seniority, as named in article eighth, shall pre- 

 side at all meetings of the institution ; or if neither of these members be 

 present, the meeting shall elect its own chairman. 



Article eleventh. The election of members shall be by ballot; the candi- 

 date being nominated to the corresponding secretary, in writing, at least 

 one week before the meeting when he is so balloted for, and proposed by any 

 three directors of the society. 



Article twelfth. Resident members shall, on admission, subscribe the 

 constitution of the institution, and pay to the treasurer five dollars each, 

 and^annually thereafter, on the first Monday in January, five dollars each ; 

 to aid in defraying necessary expenses, and for such other purposes as the 

 board of management may direct. 



Article thirteenth. No resident member shall vote at any stated, or other 

 meeting of the institution, on any question whatever, who has not paid his 

 subscription and annual dues, or who shall not have attended a meeting of 

 the institution within one year previous to such meeting. 



Article fourteenth. The resident and corresponding members shall 

 exert themselves to procure specimens of natural history, and so forth ; and 

 the said specimens shall be placed in the cabinet, under the superintendence 

 t a board of curators, to be appointed by the directors. All such speci- 

 mens, and so forth, unless deposited specially, shall remain in the cabinet ; 

 and, in case of the dissolution of the institution, shall become the property 

 of the United States. 



m Article fifteenth. The resident members of the institution shall be divided 

 into such departments as may hereafter be determined upon. The members 



