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defaulting member shall be forfeited, his name stricken from 

 the roll, and reported to the Society by the treasurer. 



11. On the Society being informed of the death of a mem- 

 ber, the fact shall be entered on the records, and a member 

 may be appointed to prepare an obituary notice of the de- 

 ceased. 



12. The obituary notices of members shall be read to the 

 Society, and they shall be bound together whenever they are 

 sufficiently numerous to form a volume. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE OFFICERS, AND MANNER OF THEIR ELECTION. 



SECTION 1. The officers shall be a patron, a president, three 

 vice-presidents, four secretaries, three curators, a treasurer, and 

 twelve councilors. 



2. The governor of the State of Pennsylvania shall be, ex- 

 officio, the patron of the Society. 



3. On the first Friday of January in every year, between 

 the hours of two and five in the afternoon, as many of the 

 members as shall have paid up their arrears due to the So- 

 ciety, and shall declare their willingness to conform to the 

 laws, regulations, and ordinances of the Society, then duly in 

 force, by subscribing the same, and who shall attend in the hall, 

 or place of meeting of the Society, within the time aforesaid, 

 shall choose by ballot, one president, three vice-presidents, 

 four secretaries, three curators and one treasurer ; and at the 

 same time and place, the members, met and qualified as afore- 

 said, shall in like manner choose four members for the council, 

 to hold their offices for three years. 



4. No person residing within the United States shall be 

 capable of being president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, 

 or member of the council, or of electing to any of the said 

 offices, who is not capable of electing and being elected to 

 civil offices within the State in which he resides. Provided, 

 that nothing herein contained shall be considered as intended 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. H. PRINTED JAN. 29, 1890. 



