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Art. 2. Members shall be appointed by the president, 

 from time to time, to give private lectures before the 

 Academy in their hall of meeting. 



Art. 3. When written communications are made to 

 the Academy, they shall be referred to a committee, with 

 directions to report thereon at the succeeding meeting. 



Art. 4. Verbal communications and remarks from the 

 members shall always be invited, and attended to, provid- 

 ed they be confined to the subjects for which the Aca- 

 demy was instituted. 



CHAPTER V. 



Art. 1. Every member elect, before his admission 

 into the society, in full standing, shall pay to the treasurer, 

 an initiation fee of ten dollars, unless he shall be already 

 in the society as a correspondent. 



Art. 2. Every member shall be subject to a quarterly 

 contribution of three dollars, payable at the last stated 

 meetings in March, June, September, and December. 



Art. 3. Any member who shall pay into the hands of 

 the treasurer the sum of fifty dollars, shall receive from 

 him a receipt in full for all future quarterly contributions, 

 and be thenceforward exempt from these payments. 



Art. 4. In cases in which the society confer the honour 

 of membership, as a mark of distinction, upon any person 

 eminent for his acquirements in natural science, such per- 

 son may be exempted, by resolution, from all pecuniary 

 obligations. 



Art. 5. The curators shall be exonerated from the pay- 

 ment of their quarterly contributions. 



Art. 6. No pecuniary contributions shall be required 

 of the correspondents* 



