XIV BY-LAWS. 



Section IX. 

 Order of Business. 



1. Reading the Records of last meeting. 



2. Proposals for Membership. 



3. Reports of Committees. 



4. Deferred and new business. 



5. Reading of Communications. 



6. Elections. 



Section X. 



Vacancies, how filled. 



Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any of the Offices 

 of the Society, it may be filled by a special election, of 

 which two weeks' notice shall be given by the Recording 

 Secretary ; and if vacancies occur in the Standing Com- 

 mittees, they may be filled at any regular meeting of the 

 Society. 



Section XL 



The President. 



The duty of the President shall be to preside at all the 

 meetings of the Society ; to keep order ; to state the busi- 

 ness 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 ; 

 to call for accounts and reports from all committees ; to 

 call extra meetings of the Society, when requested, in 

 writing, by any five of its members, and generally to su- 

 perintend the execution of such By-Laws and Regula- 

 tions, as the Society shall, from time to time, enact, not 

 otherwise provided for. 



