10 CONSTITUTION. 



Section III. 



The President. 



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

 meetings of the Society ; to keep order ; to state the busi- 

 ness lying before the Society : to state and put questions 

 which shall have been moved and seconded, and, in case 

 of an equal division on any question, to give the casting 

 vote ; to call for accounts and reports from all commit- 

 tees ; to call all extra meetings of the Society, when re- 

 quested so to do by any five of its members, and generally 

 to execute or superintend the execution of such By-Laws 

 and regulations, as the Society shall from time to time 

 enact or adopt, not otherwise provided for. 



Section IV. 



The Vice Presidents. 



In case o< the absence of the President from any of the 

 meetings of the Society, it shall be the duty of the senior 

 Vice President (in the order in which they shall have 

 been elected,) then present, to take the chair, who 

 shall for the time, have and exercise all the authority, 

 privileges and power of the President : and in case neither 

 the President, or either of the Vice Presidents shall be 

 present at any meeting of the Society, the Society shall 

 then choose viva voce^ a President y^ro tempore, who shall, 

 for the time, be invested with all the power and authority 

 of the President. 



