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 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 

 ADOPTED SEPT. 29th, 1863. 



Article i. The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, 

 four Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, Secretary, and thirty Trustees. 



Art. II. A Committee of one from each city and town in the 

 county, represented in the Society, shall be appointed at each annual 

 meeting, by nomination from the floor, to report a list of officers, (with 

 the exception of Treasurer,) at the next succeeding annual meeting, 

 which report shall be acted on, and the officers elected at said meeting 

 by the ballots of the members present. 



Art. III. The Treasurer shall be elected annually by the Trustees, 

 at their meeting in November. 



Art. IV. The Committee on nomination shall hold its meeting prior 

 to the fii-st day of July each year ; and its report shall be immediately 

 placed in the hands of the Secretary, for the examination of any mem- 

 ber of the Society ; and the Secretary shall cause ballots to be prepared 

 in conformity with said report, for the use of the members, and 

 presented at the annual meeting. 



Art. v. The first election under these amendments to be had at 

 the annual meeting in 1864, and they shall only apply to the Trustees 

 so fast as they go out of office under the present tenure of election. 



AMENDMENT ADOPTED SEPT. 24th, 1867. 



Tmstees of the Society shall not be eligible to act upon the nom- 

 inating committee ; and members of the nominating committee shall 

 not be eligible as candidates for Trustees. 



AMENDMENT ADOPTED SEPT. 29th, 1868. 



Each member of the Committee for the nomination of officers shall 

 be empowered to appoint a substitute in case he declines serving. 



AMENDMENT ADOPTED SEPT. 23d, 1878. 



Article 1st amended so as to provide that one Trustee from each 

 town in the county, in which there are members of the Society, shall 

 be chosen from the members at large. 



