BY-LAWS. 
OF THE OFFICERS. 
I. In the absence of the Chairman or Secretary of a 
Class, a member shall be chosen to perform his duties tem- 
porarily, by a plurality of the viva voce votes, upon open 
nomination. 
I. The accounts of the Treasurer shall be referred to 
an Auditing Committee of three members, to be appointed 
by the Academy at the meeting at which the accounts are 
presented ; which committee shall report before the close of 
that session, and shall then be discharged. 
OF THE MEETINGS. 
III. A Committee of Arrangements for each stated ses- 
sion of the Academy, of five members, shall be appointed by 
the President, the Class Secretaries to be ex officio two of 
the members of the Committee. This Committee shall meet 
_ not less than two weeks previous to each session. It shall 
be in session during the ‘meetings to make arrangements for 
the reception .of the members; to arrange the business of 
each day; to receive the titles of papers, reports, ete. 5 and 
_ to arrange the order of reading, and in general to attend to 
all business and scientific arrangements. 
, At the meetings the order of business shall be 45 _ 
