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shall attend to their arrangement, cataloguing and preservation ; shall 

 conduct the correspondence relating to the library and acknowledge 

 all donations thereto ; and shall report on its condition at the annual 

 meeting. 



SKC. 6. The curators shall have charge of their respective depart- 

 ments, and shall have full power relating to the collection, care and 

 preservation of the specimens or materials relating thereto; provided, 

 however, that any alteration of the general plan or principles of ar- 

 rangement of any department and the removal of specimens or other 

 material, except for the purpose of exchange, shall be made only with 

 the consent of the Board of Directors, or under such regulations as 

 they may, from time to time, prescribe. Curators shall have charge of 

 all lectures, exhibitions, or entertainments, given for their respective 

 departments. All moneys or funds that may at any time be raised by 

 anyjcurator, or that may come into his hands for the benefit of his de- 

 partment, and the net proceeds_of any lecture, exhibition or entertain- 

 ment under his charge, shall be deposited by him with the treasurer. 



ARTICLE VI. ASSESSMENTS. 



SEC. 1. An assessment of three dollars shall be paid by every mem- 

 ber on admission, and annually thereafter on the third Monday in May. 



SEC. 2. No member who shall be in arrears for one year shall be en- 

 titled to vote or hold any office; and any member so in arrears, who 

 shall refuse or neglect to pay his dues for six months after being noti- 

 fied thereof by the treasurer, by written notice duly recorded, shall 

 cease to be a member of the Institute. 



SEC. 3. The president and treasurer may exempt members from as- 

 sessments when they may deem it for the interest of the society. 



ARTICLE VII. APPROPRIATIONS. 



SEC. 1. No member, officer or committee, except the Board of Di- 

 rectors, shall incur any debt whatever in the name of the Institute, 

 unless authorized by a vote of the Society. 



SEC. 2. Whenever the Board of Directors shall appropriate any 

 money to be expended by any curator or committee, such curator or 

 committee shall render an account of the same to the treasurer, with 

 vouchers; and the balance, if any, shall be returned to the treasury of 

 the society. 



SEC. 3. Whenever any entertainment, lecture, exhibition or concert 

 is given for the benefit of any department of the Institute, the cu- 

 rator or committee having charge of the same shall render to the 

 treasurer a statement of the receipts and expenses incurred, and 

 when all bills are paid, the net receipts of the same shall be turned 

 over to the treasurer and passed to the credit of the department. 



