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requested, and shall cause to be prepared and countersigned all 

 diplomas or certificates of membership. And for his services, 

 as Recording Secretary, he shall receive the sum of fifty dollars 

 annually. 



SECTION XVL 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



The President and Treasurer, with three other members to be 

 chosen at large, shall constitute this Committee. It shall be their 

 duty to have an oversight and general supervision of the affairs 

 of the Society, and to recommend plans for promoting its inter- 

 ests ; to have charge of the Society's buildings, and to employ a 

 person or persons to take care of the same. They shall have 

 free access at all times to the records of the Society and to the 

 books of the Treasurer, and it shall be their duty to recommend 

 to the Society, on or before the first Saturday of December, the 

 amount to be appropriated for premiums and gratuities the ensu- 

 ing year ; and also, on the first Saturday of January annually, 

 to report the list of those that are to be offered by the respective 

 committees with their approval or disapproval of the same. 



SECTION XVIL 



FINANCE COBIMITTEE. 



It shall be the duty of the Finance Committee to invest the 

 funds of the Society, whenever there may be a balance in the 

 treasury of more than one thousand dollars not wanted for im- 

 mediate disbursement. And no transfer of any stock, bond, 

 note or other evidence of debt standing in the name of the 

 Society shall be made except by the Treasurer, having the 

 written order of the Committee of Finance for that purpose. It 

 shall also be their duty to examine and audit the Treasurer's 

 account, and present the same to the Society on the first Satur- 

 day of January annually, with a correct statement of the prop- 

 erty of the Corporation. 



