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expense to the member for all the benefits during his lifetime. 

 Now we get back, perhaps 40 cents as interest on that ten 

 dollars, and }"et we turn around and expend fifty cents 

 more than that to carry him on our roll. I don't see quite 

 where we are going to gain by that life membership plan. I 

 believe in having a low annual membership, and let them all 

 pay alike, but I think under this plan we are going to reduce 

 the income of the society. The interest on the ten dollars is 

 not going to keep up the funds we are now getting. We will 

 be getting only forty cents per year from some members, where 

 we are now getting a dollar. 



Prof. Gulley: The point is just here. It is probable that 

 a good many of us older members will avail ourselves of the 

 life membership plan, and the Society will receive a yearly 

 benefit from their financial support after they have passed away. 



Mr. Hurrard : I second the first amendment, but I want to 

 raise a question in regard to it. I understand Prof. Gulley 

 to say that the one year is the calendar year, ending on the 

 31st of December, and if that is so, it leaves a gap between 

 that time and the time of our annual meeting in February. 

 It seems to me it would be much better to have the member- 

 ship continue until the time of the annual meeting, when most 

 of our members renew. Now I move to amend that as follows : 

 That the membership shall continue until the next annual 

 meeting. 



Secretary Miles: That is so understood, as it always 

 has been. Our membership year has run from January ist to 

 January ist, for the sake of convenience and uniformity, and 

 any memberships renewed at the time of our annual meeting 

 are counted the same as if renewed at the beginning of the 

 year. I think the proposed rule is all right as it stands. 



President Eddy : We will take action upon the several 

 recommendations of the committee separately. Secretary Miles 

 will please read the first amendment to the Constitution. 



Secretary then read as follows : Article III. of the Consti- 

 tution amended to read, "Any jierson mav become a member of 

 this Society by paying into the treasury tlic sum of one dollar, 

 'and the membership shall cease at the end of the current 

 vear." 



