CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. xxi 



2. Both Members and Associates are eligible for the offices of President, Vice- 

 President, and Members of Council, but three-fourths of the Council shall be 

 Members. 



3. Prior to the date of the annual meeting of the Society of the year with 

 which the term of the President expires, the Council shall nominate a candidate 

 for the office of President, whose name shall be presented to the Society for elec- 

 tion at the annual meeting. Any other candidate whose nomination, signed by 

 at least sixty Members and Associates, shall have been submitted to the Secre- 

 tary prior to the annual meeting shall also be presented. The candidate receiv- 

 ing the highest number of votes shall be the President for the ensuing three years. 

 The first President under this rule shall be elected at the annual meeting in 1906 

 and his term of office shall begin January first, 1907. The President shall not be 

 eligible for election as his own successor. 



4. The term of office of the Vice-Presidents shall be six years. Prior to the 

 annual meeting in 1906 the Executive Committee shall by lot divide the present 

 list of Vice-Presidents into six classes, so that the term of two of their number 

 shall expire at the end of 1906, and two others at the end of 1907, and so on to 

 the year 1911. The Vice-Presidents to fill the vacancies occurring each year in 

 any class shall be elected by the Council from their own membership. Retiring 

 Vice-Presidents shall be eligible for re-election. 



5. The term of office of the Members of Council shall be three years. Prior 

 to the annual meeting in 1906, the Executive Committee shall by lot divide the 

 present list of Members of Council into three classes, each class consisting, as near 

 as may be, of six Members and two Associates. The terms of office of the three 

 classes shall expire at the end of the years 1906, 1907, and 1908 respectively. 

 Retiring Members and Associates shall be eligible for re-election. Prior to Sep- 

 tember first of each year the Executive Committee shall prepare voting lists to 

 fill the places of retiring Members and Associates, Members of the Council. The 

 list shall contain the names of at least twelve Members and at least four Associates 

 as candidates for the vacancies. The lists shall contain the names of all retiring 

 Members and Associates who shall not have declined re-election and of all candi- 

 dates who shall have been nominated in writing by not less than twenty Members 

 in the case of Members, and not less than twenty Members and Associates in the 

 case of Associates. No nominations received by the Secretary after August 

 fifteenth shall be considered. Should such nominations not be sufficient in number 

 to fill up lists of at least twelve Members and four Associates as candidates, the 

 Executive Committee shall add sufficient names to fill out these numbers. The 

 voting lists shall be mailed as soon as practicable after September first of each year 

 to Members and Associates. Each Member may vote for not more than six Mem- 

 bers and two Associates for the Council, and each Associate may vote for not 

 more than two Associates. The ballots shall be returned by mail to the Secretary 

 and canvassed at the annual meeting. The six Members receiving the highest 

 votes shall be declared elected Members of Cotmcil, and the two Associates receiving 



