10 CONSTITUTION. 



SECTION II. 



THE PRESIDENT 



The duty of the President shall be to preside at 

 all the meetings of the Society ; to keep order ; to 

 state the business lying before the Society ; to state 

 and put questions, which shall have been moved and 

 seconded, and, in case of an equal division on any 

 question, to give the casting vote; tocall for accounts 

 and reports from all committees ; to call all extra 

 meetings of the Society, when requested so to do 

 by any five of its members, and generally to execute 

 or superintend the execution of such By-Laws and 

 regulations, as the Society shall from time to time 

 enact or adopt, not otherwise provided for. 



SECTI{3N IIT. 



THE VICE PRESIDENTS, 



In case of the absence of the President from any 

 of the meetings of the Society, it shall be the duty 

 of the senior Vice President then present, to take 

 the chair, who shall for the time, have and exercise 

 all the authority, privileges and power of the Presi- 

 dent ; and in case neither the President, or either 

 of the Vice Presidents shall be present at any meet- 

 ing of the Society, the Society shall then choose viva 

 voce, a President |?ro tempore, who shall, for the time, 

 be invested with all the power and authority of the 

 President. 



