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shall cause to be prepared and countersigned all Diplomas 

 or Certificates of membership. He shall have charge of 

 the Seal of the Society, of all steel and copper Plates and 

 Dies belonging thereto, and shall cause to be struck or 

 printed therefrom, such impressions and medals as may- 

 be required. And for his services, as Recording Secre- 

 tary, he shall receive the sum of fifty dollars annually. 



Section XVI. 



Executive Cormnittee. 



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 afi'airs of the Society, and to recommend plans for pro- 

 moting its interests; to have charge of the Society's build- 

 ings, 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 Treas- 

 urer, and it shall be their duty to recommend to the Soci- 

 ety, on or before the first Saturday of December, the 

 amount to be appropriated for premiums and gratuities 

 the ensuing year, and also, on the first Saturday of Jan- 

 uary, 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 XVII. 



Finance Committee. 



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 Jive hundred dollars^ not 

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