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Sec. 2. Admission tickets to the Parlv and Aquarium on reserve days are 

 issued to members for distribution, and are good for the current year. 



Sec. 3. Each member of the Society is entitled annually to a member's ticket 

 and to ten admission tickets. 



Sec. 4. Each member shall also receive one copy of the catalogue or hand- 

 book, the report and official publication of the Society, and shall have all the 

 privileges of the Library and Alembers' Building. 



Sec. 5. No member shall be entitled to the privileges enumerated in this 

 Article unless his annual dues shall have been paid. 



Sec. 6. The Life Members shall have all the privileges of members and ten 

 additional admission tickets. 



Sec. 7. Benefactors, Founders in Perpetuity, Founders, Associate Founders 

 and Patrons shall have all the privileges of Life Members, and shall in addition 

 receive copies of all scientific works published by the Society. 



Sec. 8. Any member who shall fail to pay his annual dues witliin three 

 months after the same shall have become due, and after notice of thirty days, by 

 mail, shall cease to be a member of the Society; subject, however, to reinstatement 

 by the Board of Managers or Executive Committee for good cause shown. 



Sec. 9. Any person elected to membership who shall fail to qualify within 

 three months after notice of his election shall be considered to have declined his 

 election; but such term may be extended by the Board of Managers, or Executive 

 Committee. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



finances. 



Sec. 1. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be the calendar year com- 

 mencing January 1st and ending Decembei" 31st. 



Sec. 2. Neither the Society nor any of its Managers or Officers shall con- 

 tract any debt which, with existing debts, shall exceed in amount the funds then 

 in the Treasury, except to meet expenditures for which the City is liable, and for 

 which the Society will be reimbursed by warrants from the Comptroller's office. 



ARTICLE IX. 



AMENDMENTS. 



Sec. L Amendments to these By-Laws may be proposed, in writing, at any 

 meeting of the Board of Managers, and adopted by unanimous consent of the 

 Managers present, or if such proposed amendment shall fail to receive unanimous 

 consent, the Secretary shall, with the notices of the next meeting, send a copy 

 of it to each Manager and state that it will be brought up for action at such 

 meeting, when it may be passed by a majority vote. 



