BY-LAWS. 



legal holiday occur on any of the preceding days, the meeting shall 

 be held on the Saturday next succeeding. 



SECTION VIII. 



QUORUM. 



Twenty members, exclusive of the President or presiding officer, 

 shall be a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings 

 except that of the annual election. 



SECTION IX. 



ORDER OF BUSINESS. 



1. Reading the Records of last meeting. 



2. Proposals for membership. 



3. Reports of Committees. 



4. Deferred and new business. 



5. Elections. 



6. Reading of communications. 



SECTION X. 



VACANCIES, HOW FILLED. 



Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any of the offices of the 

 Society it shall be filled by a special election, of which two weeks' 

 notice shall be given by the Recording Secretary in not less than 

 three newspapers printed in the city of Boston ; and if vacancies 

 occur in the Standing Committees, they may be filled at any stated 

 meeting of the Society. 



SECTION XL 



THE PRESIDENT. 



The duty of the President shall be to preside at all the meetings 

 of the Society ; to keep order ; to state the business before the 

 Society ; to state and put questions, and, in case of an equal divi- 

 sion on any question, to give the casting vote ; to call for accounts 

 and reports from all committees ; to call extra meetings of the So- 



