10 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



AMENDMENTS AND BY-LAWS. 



Section 1. This Constitution may be amended on the day of any 

 annual election of the Academy. The proposed amendment shall be sub- 

 mitted in writing at a stated meetinj^, and if accepted by a majority of the 

 members then present, shall be referred to the Council, who shall have 

 power to amend the proposition, and shall report the same, as amended by 

 them, to the Academy. The report of the Council, or if no report be 

 made by that body within one month after its reference to them, the 

 original proposition shall be considered by the Academy at a stated meet- 

 ing, and may be amended at such meeting. If at this meeting the 

 proposition be ado^jted by a majority of the members then present, it shall 

 be conspicuouslj' posted in the Hall of the Academy from the time of such 

 adoption until the day of the annual election, when it shall be voted upon 

 by ballot in the same manner as the Officers of the Academy. No proposed 

 amendment shall be voted ui^ou on the day of the annual election, unless 

 it has been finally adopted at a stated meeting, and posted in the Hall of 

 the Academy at least two months before such annual election. 



Sec. 2. The Academy shall have the power to adopt By-Laws, not 

 inconsistent with this Constitution, for the conduct of its meetings, the 

 government of its officers, and management of its affairs. Such By-Laws 

 may be adopted or amended at any stated meeting by a two-thirds vote, 

 provided the proposition for such By-Laws or amendment shall have been 

 presented at a previous stated meeting, and posted in a conspicuous place 

 in the Hall of the Academy for not less than two weeks; but no by-law or 

 amendment can be voted upon during the month preceding the annual 

 election. 



Sec. 3. Nothing in this Constitution or the By-Laws thereunder shall 

 affect the siatus of the present Officers and Trustees of the Academy for the 

 term for which they have been elected, nor until their successors have 

 been elected and qualified hereunder. 



