CONSTITUTION. 9 



Sec. 2. Life members shall pay the sum of one hiuulred dollars in full 

 of all dues and initiation fees. 



Sec. 3. Any member who shall be in arrears for more than six months, 

 shall take no part in the business of the Academy; and the names of those 

 who shall be one year in arrears shall be presented to the Council by the 

 Treasurer. If the dues of any member who is delinquent for one year 

 shall not be paid within three months after the presentation of his name 

 to the Council, his name shall be stricken from the rolls. A person thus 

 dismissed cannot be again proposed for membership until arrearages have 

 been paid, nor until the expiration of one year from the date of dismissal. 

 A person who shall have been so dismissed a second time shall never_again 

 be eligible to membership. 



Sec. 4. Members who may remove more than one hundred and fifty 

 miles from San Francisco for one year or more, may continue their mem- 

 bership by the payment of half dues. 



Sec. 5. The Council shall be empowered to exempt {-sub .silentlo) a mem- 

 ber from dues when, from peculiar circumstances, they may deem it for the 

 interest of the Academy. 



Sec. 6. Any resident member who shall have paid his dues continu- 

 ously for twenty five years, shall thereupon become a life member without 

 the payment of further dues. 



ARTICLE YII. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AND REPORTS. 



Section 1. Communications on scientific subjects shall be read at 

 stated meetings of the Academy; and papers by any member may be read 

 by the author or by any other member. If any paper is accepted for pub- 

 lication, the author shall be entitled to fifty printed copies. 



Sec. 2. By a vote of the members present, any member of the Academy 

 may read a paper from a person who is not a member. He shall not be 

 considered responsible for the facts or opinions expressed by the author, 

 but shall be held responsible for the propriety of the paper. Persons who 

 are not members may read papers upon invitation of the Academy. 



Sec. 3. The Committee on Publication shall direct the publications of 

 the Academy under the general supervision of the Council. 



Sec. 4. Each member shall be entitled to receive, free of cost, one copy 

 of all puldicatious issued by the Academy during the time of his member- 

 ship. 



Sec. 5. Medals and prizes may be established, and the means of bestow- 

 ing them accepted by the Academy upon the recommendation of the Coun- 

 cil, by whom all necessary arrangements for their establishment and award 

 shall be made. Bequests and trusts having for their object the advance- 

 ment of science, may be accepted by the Academy. 



