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the same may be supplied by a new election, to be made at 

 any stated meeting of the society ; the person thus newly 

 elected, to serve the remainder of the year. 



IV. 



A quorum for business shall consist of at least five mem- 

 bers, including the president or vice-president. 



V. 



At all meetings of the society, the president sliall exer- 

 cise the usual duties of that office ; all motions shall be ad- 

 dressed to him ; and on all questions he shall collect and 

 declare the votes. He shall also have power to call special 

 meetings of the society, by notice published in at least two 

 of the city newspapers. In his absence the same duties shall 

 be performed by a vice-president. And if it happen, at any 

 meeting of the society, that both the president and vice-pre- 

 sidents be absent, the members present (being a quorum to 

 constitute a regular meeting for the business to be transact- 

 ed) may choose a vice-president for that meeting. 



VI. 



The treasurer shall keep the accounts, methodically sta- 

 ted, in the books of the society ; and, when called upon, pro- 

 duce them for inspection. At the last meeting of every year, 

 and also whenever his office ends, he shall produce a fair 

 and regularly stated account of all receipts, payments, and 

 expenditures ; and deliver it, together with those books, and 

 all other property of the society, in his hands, to his suc- 

 cessor in office, or to the orders of the society. 



VII. 



The curators arc to take the charge and care of all pi'b- 

 perty and articles belonging to the society ; the books and 

 papers excepted, which are to remain in charge of the se- 

 cretary, who is to assist the curators in every thing in which 

 his aid is required. 



TJic curators are to take measures, from time to time, for 

 collecting all native fossils, earths and substances, proper 

 for manures, or deemed so to be ; and to cause or procure 



