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5. Members and Associates can compound for all future dues and become Life Members 

 or Life Associates by making a single payment of three hundred dollars and signing an agree- 

 ment to conform to any future amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws. 



6. Members are entitled to no return of fees upon severing their connection with the 

 Society. 



7. Any member whose dues are rrore than three months in arrears shall be notified 

 by the Secretary. Should his dues become six months in arrears he shall be again notified 

 by the Secretary and his rights as a member suspended. Should his dues become one year in 

 arrears the delinquent member shall forfeit his membership in the Society unless the Council 

 may deem it expedient to extend the time of payment. 



8. The Council may, in its discretion, temporarily suspend the annual payment of 

 dues by any member whose circumstances have become such as to make such pa)mient 

 impossible, and may, under similar circumstances, remit the whole or part of dues in 

 arrears. 



9. No name shall be entered on the rolls as Member, Associate or Jimior, nor shall 

 the privileges of membership be enjoyed until the payments required in paragraphs 1 to 4 of 

 this article have been made; if the payment be delayed for more than six months from the 

 date of election, the same shall be void unless the Council otherwise direct. 



10. ( 1 ) Should the expulsion of any member be adjudged expedient by five or more 

 members, they must draw up and sign a proposal requesting such expulsion, delivering 

 the same to the Secretary, to be laid before the Council. 



(2) If the Council do not find reason to concur in the proposal, no entry thereof shall 

 appear in the minutes, nor shall any public discussion thereon be permitted. 



(3) If, however, the Council find the charges contained in the proposal for expulsion 

 substantiated, the accused member shall be notified and given an opportunity to resign. If 

 he avails himself of this privilege, no entry shall be made on the minutes nor public discus- 

 sion of the case be permitted. But if he declines to resign and offers no satisfactory expla- 

 nation of the charge, the whole case shall be submitted to a special meeting of the Society. 



(4) If two-thirds of the members at this special meeting (providing there be not less than 

 twenty present) vote for expulsion, the Chairman of the meeting shall cause the accused to 

 be expelled from the Society and direct the Secretary to notify the accused of this action. 



Article IV. 



Officers. 



1. The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, Past Presidents, Honorary 

 Vice-Presidents, twelve Vice-Presidents, twenty-four Members of Council, and a Secretary 

 and Treasurer. 



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

 Vice-President, Vice-President and Member 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 Presi- 

 dent, whose name shall be presented to the Society for election at the annual meeting. Any 

 other candidate whose nomination, signed by at least sixty Members and Associates, shall 

 have been submitted to the Secretary prior to the annual meeting shall also be presented. 

 The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be the President for the ensuing 



