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lawful to take up, consider or transact at such special meeting 

 any business other than that which is specified in the call and 

 the notice for the meeting. And no business shall be taken up, 

 considered or transacted at such special meeting, except by 

 such number of qualified voters as would be requisite for a 

 quorum according to the laws and regulations of the Society. 



2. The chair shall be taken by the presiding member at the 

 time appointed for the meeting. 



3. The qualified voters present at any stated or special 

 meeting shall be a quorum, and be competent to elect mem- 

 bers, dispose of property, appropriate money, and award pre- 

 miums ; but no property shall be alienated or encumbered, 

 except by the vote of three-fourths of the qualified voters 

 present, and given at two successive stated meetings. For 

 the transaction of the ordinary business, the reception and 

 reference of communications on literary, scientific, or other 

 subjects, all other members present shall be deemed compe- 

 tent to act, and, in the absence of qualified voters, shall form 

 a quorum. 



4. Those members shall be considered qualified voters at the 

 meetings, who have subscribed the laws and paid the admission 

 fee, and who are not in arrears to the Society. 



5. No meeting shall be continued after eleven o'clock ; nor 

 shall any new matter be introduced after ten, unless in the 

 transaction of business enjoined by the laws. 



6. The hall of the Society shall be open at half-past seven 

 o'clock on every Friday evening when a stated meeting of the 

 Society is to be held. 



CHAPTEE X. 



OF THE TKANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



SECTION 1. Every communication to the Society which 

 may be considered as intended for a place in the Transactions, 

 shall immediately be referred to a committee to consider and 

 report thereon. 



2. If the committee shall report in favor of publishing the 



